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| “ | I am Xerxes, the great king, king of kings, king of countries containing many kinds of men, king in this great earth far and wide, son of King Darius, an Achaemenian, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, of Aryan stock.
— Xerxes I
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Xerxes I, known also as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth emperor of the First Persian Empire. He ruled from 486 to 465 BCE, when he put down revolutions in Egypt and Babylon upon his ascension to the throne. Xerxes was most well-known for his invasion of Greece, where he burned through the northern mainland. He was eventually stopped at Salamis and Platea, resulting in the retreat of the Persian armies.
In the latter half of his life, Xerxes spent much time developing the infrastructure left unfinished by his family. Xerxes had built rivals in the religious communities, who conspired with members of his court to assassinate him in 465 BCE. One of his generals, Megabyzus, assisted Xerxes' heirs to ensure the Achaemenid line continued to rule the Persian throne.Battles here were deemed to be unfair or otherwise not in accordance with wiki standards, and have been removed from the statuses of the warriors and displayed below.
Battle vs. Montezuma II (by Aquamanfan2000)[]
King Montezuma sits on his throne, drinking several golden chalices of wine in at least 3 sips each. Xerxes rides in on his horse, spotting the Tenochtitlan head temple. He orders his squad to charge. One fires an arrow into the building hitting a wine chalice out of the Aztec kings hands. He lets out a drunken cry. One of his guards fire back hitting an Immortal in the neck. Xerxes fires back, hitting an Aztec in between his eyes. Xerxes' men charge, the horse trampling an Aztec guard. He dismounts and engages the other guard, but gets slashed on his side by the axe. He plays dead, and the guard kills an Immortal who tried to catch him by suprise. When he the job is over, Xerxes beats his head repeatedly with the Gurj quielty. Montezuma stands in the distance, burning sword in one hand, weight in the other. He throws the stone, and it almost breaks Xerxes' shoulder on impact, if it were not for his scale armor. Another weight goes by, but Xerxes bats it away with his Gurj. He draws his Sagaris and engages the crazed king of Tenochtitlan. They clash weapons, but Xerxes' axe is set on fire and he throws it away. Montezuma tries to burn his enemie's face, but barely singes his hair. Xerxes takes Montezuma's intoxication to his own advantage. He beats Montezuma's stomach and crushes his head. He sees his foe's brains scattered along with his skull and yells "Feratisa!!!!" (Persia)
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Battle vs. Hector (by Deathblade 100)[]
Asia Minor, 1300 BC
Hector: 
Xerxes: 
On a winding dirt road, Hector and two of his Trojan champions are mounted on a chariot to have a rendezvous with some new allies; the Persians. As they wait, an arrow sprouts into the ground next to them. Xerxes is mounted on a chariot with two of his Immortals. One of the Immortals nocks an arrow to his bow and fires, missing Hector narrowly.
Hector orders one of his men to nock an arrow and fire back, which the Trojan does almost immediately. The arrow hits Xerxes’ chariot driver in the neck, causing the chariot to swerve uncontrollably off course. Hector’s charioteer urges the chariot forward just as thrust of a Persian spear impales a Trojan soldier. Hector grabs a javelin and hurls it into Persian's leg, severing the nerve. As the Persian grits his teeth in pain, a slash from a Trojan's Kopis severs the carotid arteries in his neck.
Xerxes grabs an Acinaces and a Sagaris from his dead charioteer and tries to make a last ditch stand only for Hector's remaining soldier to fire an arrow into his chest. As the Persian king grasped at the shaft feebly, Hector walked up with a Labrys axe and swung it down towards the Persian's neck.
Hector raised his Labrys and yelled "For Troy!" in victory, before signalling his driver to take him back to Troy.
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