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Ladon · salience 1

“Ladon is the serpentine dragon that coils around or through the tree of golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides, guarding the fruit against all who would take it.”

Div · salience 0.8

“They are typically located at the mythic margins of the Persian world, in Mazandaran or other distant, hostile territories, marking the boundary between civilized order and monstrous chaos that heroes like Rostam must cross and subdue.”