Demetrius of Macedon (deh-MEE-tree-us)
Macedon General
Demetrius, son of Antigonus I, was born into a world shaped by Alexander’s ambitions. Bold, charismatic, and restless, he earned the epithet *Poliorcetes* — “the Besieger” — for his mastery of siegecraft. His military genius was matched by an appetite for risk, gambling on campaigns across Greece and Asia that often ended in both triumph and disaster.
Demetrius’s name is forever tied to the near-destruction of the Library of Alexandria. His naval strike against the city, intended to wrest Egypt from Ptolemaic control, nearly set fire to the world’s greatest archive. Though the storm that broke his assault spared the library, the incident revealed to all the peril of entrusting memory to the fortunes of war. Thus Demetrius, unwittingly, became the villain that gave rise to the Accord of Preservation.
Though he continued to wage wars afterward, his reputation was stained. Later generations remembered him less as a great general and more as “the Hand of Flame,” a cautionary tale of ambition unchecked by wisdom. He died in captivity, far from the city he had once nearly destroyed, a man remembered more for what he almost erased than for what he built.
Date of Birth
23 Eirene 57 bz (Vidya)
Date of Death
24 Yūgen 3 bz (Shifa)
Life
57 bz
3 bz
54 years old
Birthplace
Macedon
Place of Death
Cilicia, Seleucid custody
Children
Belief/Deity
Hellenism/Greek
Pre-Accord martial leader; pure ritual lineage with proto-Stoic reason assumed culturally.
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