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Theomakhia (A Post-Alexander Quest)

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Omake: Thánatos Theoû
  • Apocrypha
    • Thánatos Theoû ​

    It is in Babylon that a God dies. In Babylon, city of a thousand kings, where men have reigned since time out of mind.

    In Babylon, where the very fountains are said to weep at the passing of the King.

    It is in Babylon that the priests lament, sacrifices at the doors and the smoke rising from the temples. A God has died, and his people are lost and stricken. The soldiers mill without purpose, the craftsmen work without certainty, the laborers toil in fear.
    For the nobles, it is a time of knives. The God made flesh has fallen to sickness and poison, and in the shadow of his death are the killings to begin.

    You watch this almost bemused, for it is but the second time you see it. From Ctesiphon you came, the very center of intrigue in the Empire. You have seen the court of the King of Kings, and to it the generals of Alexander are comparable.
    Barely.

    The knives and poison are but one part of the dance, and that is a part that you have long since mastered.

    It is with companions and steel that one holds what one takes, for without that all the plots in the worlds are as dust in the wind. And when you survey the lances of the cavalry, you smile in satisfaction.

    For you are Cambyses, heir to the King of Kings by dint of guile and skill, general of the Companions of Alexander the Great. Yours is the legacy of the finest horsemen in the world, the lances that tore the world asunder.

    When you raise your blade and call for the men to follow, there is not a man left behind. Greek, Persian, Levantine, you are all but one thing.

    The God's heirs, the legacy of the Great Conqueror. The fist that broke the Empire and cast the Shahanshah into the dust.

    When you call, the Companions come.

    And with the Companions, the lesser men, the infantry. The mercenaries. The spears.

    And with that army, the empire.

    One step at a time.

    For what use is the blood of the great Cyrus, the tutelage of the great Alexander, if not to keep the Empire intact?



    [X]Plan King of Persia

    @Telamon please let me know if this is allowed, else I'll delete it.
     
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  • Apocrypha
    • [X] Father of Thrace

    My second choice is winning, so I am fine with voting my first choice. I really want to play a Thracian, because there aren't really any famous "Thracian" empires like there are the others.
     
    [X] Plan Thracian Demon
    -[X] The Thracian
    -[X] The Agema
    -[X] The Gift of Hermes


    While my first choice would be to be a royalist, I will admit that my second is to be an independent. So, because I'm really interesting the [Prince] of Persia plan, it's also pretty easily winning. So I thought I'd throw in an idea for a Thracian king as well. Though, one a little younger, just to not be old already.

    One plan or another, though, I'm eagerly awaiting the path ahead.
     
    [X] Plan King of Persia

    The others are OK, but being a Persian King-Of-Greeks? That is the stuff from which legends are made.
     
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    [X] Plan Thracian Demon
    -[X] The Thracian
    -[X] The Agema
    -[X] The Gift of Hermes

    I like the mechanical balance in this one very much. For instance, both "gift of Hermes" and "favoured by Ares". Thracian for outsider status, Agema for insider. Barbarian for good combat, Hermes for social manipulations.

    The character flavour is also very nice, a trickster that can play hardball too and is not afraid of getting into scraps.
     
    Seems like The Persian is running away with this one. I approve, even If I would have preferred someone younger.
     
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