Talk:Darius III/@comment-25567588-20160309150854/@comment-73.223.85.195-20170920004203

There's an incident recounted by our earliest historians of the period. How I remember it, Alexander has just won a battle over Darius, and the captives point-blank refuse to believe that he's the victor - a guy as short as him, who's hardly taller than Dairus's footstool? He's the conqueror of Persia? (Because Alexander was, historically, quite short.)

In Fate/Zero, Urobuchi wrote Alexander as Iskander Khan, King of Conquerors, and the tallest person in the story. So to keep this story working, he handwaved that Darius was a giant among men, and that being 'hardly taller than Darius's footstool' says more about Darius than it does about him. And that's how it happened.