Ephialtes was a deformed hunchback in exile whose parents ran away from Sparta. Hoping to redeem his father's honor, he volunteered to Leonidas to join the army, but Ephialtes was too weak to raise his shield high enough so Leonidas rejected him. He so frustrated and distraught for the rejection, he just want a honorable death for his miserable life. He thought in anger to go over to Xerxes and join the Persian, he went to Xerxes and betrayed his own country to get a reward. Ephialtes want to tell the Persians of the Anopaea, which was a path known only to locals that enabled the Persian armies to flank the Spartans.

He slowly walking, sobbing in silence, before he stumble across a greek lady, on a horse