The Rule

The bigger the king the greater the threat

Sargon was a great ruler of the Persian empire, however it was a peculiar situation to have a monster -- a naga as king and emperor of Persia. People should have been wary of him, but he was not a bad king, nor was he benevolent and kind either. While he ruled with an iron fist, he ruled it well and led his people to victory multiple times by being in the front lines of significant battles. It was his extreme persistence and hardiness which made him a very efficient king, and led Persia to great achievements under his rule. However, the bigger the king the greater the threat he would face, and with a lifespan that far exceeded many human generations, the threats only grew.

The Fall

There they stripped him of everything; His clothes, jewelry, title and freedom. Shackled in iron, bound by cloth, and sealed with stone, he was finally brought to silence

Never growing old to leave the throne to a new ruler, Sargon would be questioned and criticized by cynics. At first, it would only be questions, but towards the end of his rule they became accusations. Wether he did a good job or not didn't matter to them, and they used the natural mistrust humans had for monsters, and how unnatural it was for them to have a king rule for multiple generations to plan a hostile takeover. They wanted him off the throne, and out of their society, for all they knew he could be secretly holding their empire back from their true potential, him being a monster and most of them being humans after all.

Sargon was betrayed by those who served him, and those he protected and ruled over. He was ambushed and captured with the intent of sealing him in a tomb specially made for him. However, he would not give up without a fight as this act of treason filled him with rage. The struggle went on for 5 days with no break and no room to breathe, 300 men was needed to subdue him while 100 men died in the process. In the end, Sargon was too wounded and exhausted, he had no way of fighting back anymore and was outnumbered and brought to the tomb. There they stripped him of everything; His clothes, jewelry, title and freedom. Shackled in iron, bound by cloth, and sealed with stone, he was finally brought to silence.

The new king appointed by the people took it upon himself to scrub Sargon out of existence. He would proceed to burn every book and papers documenting Sargon himself and his rule, he would punish and execute anyone who would try to keep a record, preventing people from even telling the stories of Sargon Xerxes to their children. However, during Sargon's rule, there were some achievements that could not be scrubbed from the Persian history, and for it to make sense, they made up a fictional king to be described in their books instead of Sargon, and they would call him "Xerxes I".

As Sargon was sealed away, he still had loyal followers, both humans and monsters. The new king took pity on them, and let them give Sargon one last gift before they themselves were sealed away in one big collective tomb of their own, away from Sargon. They decorated his tomb with heaps of gold and jewelry, some vases filled to the brim of gold coins, carved stone pillars encrusted with beautiful jewels and gold, and piles upon piles with treasures from their own collections and Sargon's own treasury. After all, the new king was surprisingly stubborn, and did not want any of the "filthy monster gold" Sargon had collected over the century and decades, and dumped it all into Sargon's tomb. After his loyal followers had given him their gifts and prayers, they were taken to be sealed away in their own tomb, some forcefully and some peacefully. Sargon's tomb were sealed for good, and guarded heavily to prevent anyone to interfere. No one who were truly loyal to Sargon was left in this world. Without anyone to remind humanity of who he was, time would pass, and so would the memory of the great Naga King Sargon Xerxes of Persia be lost in time.

Revival

He was beautiful, he was radiant, he was powerful... and he was furious

As time went on with nobody to record why his tomb existed in the first place, less and less guards would guard a tomb they did not even know the meaning of. After millennia the tomb's inner chamber was sealed up and hidden from prying eyes, however the rest was used as a research and tourist attraction due to its regal appearance and decorative walls.

As roads were being built and hills were blown up to make way for new arcitecture in the modern world, the tremors made would build up and weaken the seal a little by little. Finally after a powerful enough tremor, Sargon woke from his deep slumber. A single crack in his stone coffin was enough, and with that he tore free from the withered cloth which had him wrapped up, crushed the stone coffin and ripped the chains holding his arms in place from the walls with a great roar. Sargon Xerxes was back, and he was furious. Waking to the memory of being betrayed, beaten, and forced into a coffin against his will made him blind with anger and pure hate.

The unknowing guards who were on patrol were shocked beyond belief, and made their way as deep as they could to see the hidden section of the tomb burst open where Sargon had been slumbering. As they looked in they were absolutely awestruck with what they were met with. There on the altar stood a scaled person clad in gold, scorched black by the sun itself and white hair bleached by its rays. He was beautiful, he was radiant, he was powerful, and he was furious. They knew not what to feel, think nor do, and so they attacked him. Sargon brushed off their batons and bullets as if they were less worth than flies, he did not even give them the honor of his glare as he swiped them down with his impossibly long and spiked tail. After dealing with the pests, he gathered himself, found some drapery to use as clothes and jewelry in the piles of treasures and escaped the tomb. He knew he had slept for an impossibly long time, and needed to see what he had missed, perhaps there was still parts of his empire he could salvage.