Guards remote monstrous domain
A motif, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
Behaviour
3 figures
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.
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.
The Highland exemplar is the Direach Ghlinn Eitidh, the sole inhabitant of Glen Eiti near Ballachulish, and the class it belongs to — the athach, the monstrous giants of lonely glens, within the broader company of the fuaths — is defined by exactly that solitude: the fachan attacks any mortal who strays into its ground.