Marathon was a minotaur hero-god who lived in the eighty ninth century. A deity of mazes, dilemmas, and those who find themselves trapped within either, Marathon was known to endlessly wander the Acheron Labyrinth under Halakros.
Edicts and anathema
- Edicts
- None (hero-god deceased)
- Anathema
- None (hero-god deceased)
Description
The details of Marathon's ascent to hero-godhood are hazy, but the minotaur was well-known to those who entered the Acheron Labyrinth by Y8800*, with small cults to him growing not long after. Similarly unclear in the modern day is his death. Marathon is generally believed to have died shortly after Y8925*, yet unusually for a hero-god some of his followers continued to worship him after this point, leading some to claim the minotaur still lived a while longer.
The tenets of the god and the activities of his followers were both well-protected by his cults - information on neither survives in a complete form in the modern day. For all his mastery of physical mazes, Marathon is known to have been tormented throughout his life by labyrinthine mental constructs of his own unintentional invention. His faithful claimed his ceaseless travels through the Acheron Labyrinth were the result of this anguish as he attempted to physically map the intangible.
Location of worship
Marathon was once worshiped across Hellea and even into parts of western Thadria, but the god never had a large following.