Cyrus the Great

The "King of the Four Corners," an emperor who ruled not with the whip, but with a decree of liberation carved in clay. He was the "Merciful Conqueror," a man who understood that a stable empire is built on the freedom of its subjects to worship their own gods. He represents the "Wisdom of the Horizon"—the realization that true strength is found in tolerance. He is the winged guardian and the Pasargadae silence, the one who proved that a King’s greatest victory is the freedom of his enemies.