There was once a rich man by the name of Ereus, who was wealthy beyond the means of even most kings, and though he had a beautiful wife and two precious sons, he remained unsatisfied.
One day his wife came to him and said: "Good Ereus, why do you mourn so?"
And Ereus spoke and said: "I have everything that any man could have, and yet I am still not satisfied. For of all of those things a mortal man may have, I have everything. Yet there is something more I wish to have, that no man on earth here has, and that is immortality."
His good wife frowned: "Why, Ereus, why do you seek immortality?"
And Ereus replied: "It is all that I do not have, yet I shall seek it, and receive it." And with that he left his manor and his family, and travelled across the lands of Eptemia until he came to the oracle at Sacropeda. And Ereus entered and spoke to the priest and Ereus said: "I am a wealthy man, with a beautiful wife, and two precious sons. Yet I seek more, and wish immortality upon myself, and I am here to seek and receive it."
And the priest of the oracle spoke and said: "Why do you seek what you do not have, when you have your health and your wealth and your family? You walk on two legs, not one or three, and you have a roof over your head, and food on your table, and a wife whom you adore and two precious sons. Why should any man with so much wish more? Are you not aware that you are being greedy, or even aware of the Curse of Eremychus?"
And Ereus spoke and said: "It not greed that prompts a man to seek what he has not, but a natural urge that all men have. Today I seek immortality. Tell me what I may do, so that I may receive it."
And so the priest of the oracle mediated for a while, and then sang, and whipped himself to a frenzy until he found the answer that he sought. And when all was done and was calmed and finished, the priest answered thus: "Go to a city called Argar, and there seek King Athranses. When you touch his hair, you will receive immortality."
So Ereus set off towards the city of Argar, and found it, and asked of where the king was. And he found the king in his tent, drinking and feasting, and celebrating a new won war. And Ereus looked to the king's hair and with only his wish in mind he strode up to King Athranses and promptly touched his hair, whereupon both the king and his bodyguard fell upon the man with his swords and slew him, for they thought him an assassin. And when King Athranses inquired, and learned of why Ereus had done so, though it cost him his life, so King Athranses had it recorded and told of to his own people, who then handed down the tale between every generation. And thus this is how Ereus became immortal.
