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Tros horses are characters in Greek mythology and especially in the Iliad fictional universe. Tros horses are also both characters and fictional objects in The Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional universe and the Thieves World shared fictional universe. Tros horses were originally given to Tros,... founder of Troy, by Zeus after Zeus abducted Ganymede from Mount Ida to mollify Tros after Zeus took Ganymede for his eromenos. These Tros horses were said to be so fast they could run over water. Thereafter, the finest horses in the ancient world were said be from Troy, bred from Zeus's original stallions. Heracles owned them. Diomedes stole them. In the Sacred Band of Stepsons universe, Abarsis brings first one, then two more Tros horses to Tempus. These horses are the foundation stallions of the Sacred Band of Stepsons breeding program. They are man-killers and they know the future. Tempus rides one in the first Sacred Band story . When it is killed in battle, Tempus gets two more from Abarsis and gives the care of one to Jihan. Later in the series, NIkodemos rides one and the Sacred Band of Stepsons establish a stock farm in Free Nisibis.
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Tros horses are both characters and fictional objects in The Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional unvierse and the Thieves World shared fictional universe. Tros horses are also characters in Greek mythology and especially in the Iliad fictional universe. Tros horses were originally given to Tros,... founder of Troy, by Zeus after Zeus abducted Ganymede from Mount Ida to mollify Tros after Zeus took Ganymede for his eromenos. These Tros horses were said to be so fast they could run over water. Thereafter, the finest horses in the ancient world were said be from Troy, bred from Zeus's original stallions. Heracles owned them. Diomedes stole them. In the Sacred Band of Stepsons universe, Abarsis brings first one, then two more Tros horses to Tempus. These horses are the foundation stallions of the Sacred Band of Stepsons breeding program. They are man-killers and they know the future. Tempus rides one in the first Sacred Band story . When it is killed in battle, Tempus gets two more from Abarsis and gives the care of one to Jihan. Later in the series, NIkodemos rides one and the Sacred Band of Stepsons establish a stock farm in Free Nisibis. From the novel "The Sacred Band": "The two stallions, the silver and the black, represent the equine god in this ritual so ancient that no one knows what god to thank. Thank Poseidon, say the Thebans; and Epona, the Greek goddess. Thank Stormbringer, Jihan says. So many gods claim the horse, perhaps the finest creation under heaven. Man and horse have worked together longer than either can remember. But these two stallions know their brothers, and paw the ground and trumpet their grief and thanks to heaven. It must be enough. It always has been: horses know what to say for horses; men know what to say for men, when life has fled and spirits soar and the bereft are left behind, tethered to the earth.
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Trôs horses are the Sacred Band's preferred warhorses in the Sacred Band of Stepsons fictional universe and the Thieves' World shared fictional universe. Trôs horses were first bred by Trôs, founder of Troy, and consider to be the best horses in the ancient world. As such, they figure in the Iliad... and Greek mythology. On Tempus's request, Abarsis, Slaughter Priest, sends him a Trôs horse from Abarsis's farm in Syr. When Tempus's first Trôs stallion is killed in a Sanctuary skirmish, Abarsis personally brings Tempus a replacement. This stallion later becomes the foundation sire of the Sacred Band of Stepsons warhorse breeding program. Trôs horses can share the god-given speed of any more-than-mortal rider. They are trained as man-killers although, in the Sacred Band of Stepsons, they are not fed on human flesh as Diomedes fed those he stole from Heracles. In the Janet Morris story, "A Man and His God," when Abarsis is killed, Tempus inherits a second Trôs horse, whose care he gives to Jihan. Trôs horse intelligence, speed and stamina make them highly prized by cavalrymen. Trôs horses may question their owners decisions; they sometimes know the future and prompt their riders as to the safest course of action. Many Trôs foals are born black and turn progressively grayer with age, until they are white. Tempus allows Niko to breed his Askelonian mare to Tempus's Trôs, and the resulting foal is born at the beginning of Janet Morris's novel, "Beyond Wizardwall" . Owning a Trôs colt becomes Lysis the Theban's fondest desire in "The Sacred Band" .
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In Greek mythology, Dolon fought for Troy during the Trojan War. Dolon is the child of Eumedes, along with 5 sisters. Considered a fast runner, after a request by Hector in which all the Trojan men are called together, Dolon volunteers to spy on the Greek ships and check whether or not the Greeks... are still guarding them, and if so, how. In exchange Hector offers the horses and bronze chariot of Achilles as his prize at the end of the war. Fearing deceit, Dolon demands that Hector swears to fulfill the promised reward. Dolon departs wearing a wolf skin and a weasel cap in order to blend in to his surroundings. His plan was to deceive the Greeks by walking on all fours. By chance, he is spotted by Odysseus and Diomedes while they are on a secret raid to plunder the Trojans. The Greek warriors see Dolon coming and hide themselves in the bodies of the dead so that Dolon can't see them. Diomedes chases Dolon down with help from Athena and Dolon begs for his life, telling the two warriors that he is worth a valuable ransom because his father, Eumedes, is very wealthy.
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