Patricia Taylor
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"Citius, altius, forties" - "Faster, higher, stronger." The two 'new officers' squeezed through the crowd, thinking that it must be another ball game which is widely popular among the sailors and local Roman soldiers. It is a nice thing for the troopers to exercise through ball games and increase their bons, though the thing is this kind of games are now largely banned inside army camps due to their natural nature tied with gambling, which can lead to protests and internal fighting. In the end, it causes…-
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"You are right." Antonius looked at this gigantic Nordic man, thought for a while and replied in a sincere way. "You are right, the troops shall lose their morales and will to fight in a few months' time getting stagnated in the camps, it is indeed my mistake to not have noticed this phenomenon." The Moskva prince certainly did not expect the Caesar of the Romans to make a personnel apology to him in front of so many other people for such a matter, and became speechless not knowing what to say. Just as…
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After the meeting back in Thessaloniki concluded, hundreds of riders, messengers and ambassadors rushed out of the city carrying letters to their respective destinations. Some of these letters are written by Antonius, some letters are written by Anna, and some are written by both of them like the one Skanderbeg received earlier. They are all part of the broader strategical plan for the next two decades discussed by the war council and senate, to befriend the distant states that has little to no conflict of…
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Inside the sword's room of the castle, Skanderbeg is reading the letter handed to him by his procurator with the light through a tiny barred window, frowning as he tries to recognise the words in the letter which is being written in a rather bizarre way; The first half of the letter is well decorated classical literature writing style, using the tales and quotes of many ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, written in an elegant court calligraphy technique. While the second half of the letter, is being…
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The Venetians are not the only one contesting for influence in the region of Epirus, they are now facing a severe threat from the north. Not from the Ottoman remnants, but from their former Catholic ally Skanderbeg, who also raised in the power vacuum. Skanderbeg managed to reverse the situation he is facing several years ago pushing back the Ottomans, gaining back a complete control of the municipality. His supposed liege, the king of the Normans in Naples Ferdinand gave him a brand new title on top of…
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"You lied Antonius, again. I know that you shall be gone for more than three months, six months, maybe even a whole year! And after you defeat all the enemies in Epirus, you are going to spend another year over there sorting out all the affairs, rebuilding cities, constructing roads, allocating lands and villages, just like what you have done before in Drama. But how about me? How about my daughter? How about your daughter? We have been waiting for you for almost one year, you promised that you shall give…
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"…And if anybody does not accept this peace, I will go to war against them, with those who want these things, on foot and by sea, with ships and with money." - Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.31 Later that day at night, the curfew of Thessaloniki is broken for the first time with the entire city getting mobalised for the war. Just a few streets away lays the residence of their Caesar, and its master Antonius is preparing all the things he need to bring for the expedition, while the mistress Anna is in another…
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"οὐδεὶς γὰρ οὕτω ἀνόητος ἐστὶ ὅστις πόλεμον πρὸ εἰρήνης αἱρέεται· ἐν μὲν γὰρ τῇ οἱ παῖδες τοὺς πατέρας θάπτουσι, ἐν δὲ τῷ οἱ πατέρες τοὺς παῖδας." "No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace: for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons." - The Persian Wars, Herodotus, translated by A. D. Godley "Turn around, head…
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In a prison outside the city of Thessaloniki, interrogation room. "You better say some thing today, if not I shall make you know all the kind of things that we can do to you! O trust me kid you are not going to enjoy the process!" The rogue, now turned in to a prisoner struggled difficultly being hang on a pole, with his mouth filled with a rug. He too wants to answer the interrogator's questions, but the problem is the later did not even ask him any question in the first place, and he cannot ask what…
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"They ought to have prepared themselves for this moment of pay back the moment they conducted this atrocity on my men… And who would negotiate with a bunch of rogues. Carry on with the operations." Antonius ordered in a flat voice, with totally no emotions on his face. But Helio knows from the years of accompany with the admiral, that the admiral has already reached the boiling point, a point of rage that can only be soothed by the blood of his enemies. Helio dared not ask any further, and went on…
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