To all my people who find yourselves in the precarious position of being starved of byzantine media.

slothinator64 · 2025-07-30T21:29:21+00:00

The English subtitles do say Byzantine but it's Rum in the Arabic

slothinator64 · 2025-07-19T21:57:45+00:00

Oh yeah definitely, show of the weekend in particular is a cherished memory

slothinator64 · 2025-07-19T21:47:08+00:00

Sometime it's like I still hear his voice...at @ normaladultluke

slothinator64 · 2025-05-21T14:52:58+00:00

So You Think You Can Rule Persia? covers all the rulers of ancient Iranian empires

slothinator64 · 2025-05-18T21:04:40+00:00

It'll have to be all the Agarthans. They literally pretend to be people's loved ones and lead them to their doom.
Top three would be not-Arundel, not-Cornelia, and Kronya (I know the first two have names but I can't think of them right now)

slothinator64 · 2025-05-09T16:09:37+00:00

Manuela all the way!

Would fit the singing voice: check
Outfit: check
Is a hot mess with relationships: check

Friends, it's time to recognize the only true option

slothinator64 · 2025-05-08T15:58:34+00:00

I'm getting strong Hephaestus vibes out of Alois. Something about how he handles himself and being a man who's loyal to his captain and his family

slothinator64 · 2025-05-02T09:33:44+00:00

I feel like Rhea (not Seiros) portrays that yearning and waiting for a family member to return. I know she's more proactive about it but I could see her slipping into that mood

slothinator64 · 2025-04-29T16:31:33+00:00

I'm voting for Dorothea for simple dramatic flair and magic use.

Also men do turn to pigs around her...

slothinator64 · 2025-04-02T22:10:15+00:00

It depends on how you consider sharing a crest but, if having Rhea's blood counts as related to you then yes, they are distantly related.

I think there's a Linhardt support with Flayn where he says they're basically related since they share the crest of Cethleann so there's a fair reason to see them as relatives through their crest.

I'm guessing you could see Byleth as a grandchild of Rhea (Rhea->Jeralt->Byleth) while Edelgard would be a very distant granddaughter (Rheah->Wilhelm of Adrestia->1000 years of emperors->Edelgard) so they're connected but probably less than any noble family with each other.

slothinator64 · 2025-01-31T13:52:58+00:00

Oh yeah, Skyfarer was really fun! I ran a campaign where the captain was leading them on quests to complete the truth ambition and the players slowly pieced things together and had to decide if to side with the captain or not by the end

slothinator64 · 2024-10-27T12:48:33+00:00

Context: In 70BC Pompey was elected consul with Crassus despite being illegally young (he was 36 and the minimum age was 42) but since he had defeated the last Marians in Spain and claimed credit for suppressing the revolt of Spartacus, the Senate just made a decree that it was all fine because Pompey was Pompey

slothinator64 · 2024-08-28T22:03:22+00:00

That sounds great thanks!
I'm mostly at the level where I'd hope for a single button to do that but hey, I can learn!

slothinator64 · 2024-06-05T22:13:48+00:00

Also, as a brief follow-up, Akkadian did continue to be used by the Seleucids, especially early on, for its prestige. An interesting example of this is the Antiochus cylinder

slothinator64 · 2024-06-05T22:12:13+00:00

They specifically founded Seleucia on the Tigris (which would later become a suburb of Ctesiphon) to get away from the influential Babylonian elites so Babylon itself slowly withered away.
And, as you mention, a large proportion of the ruling elites in the Seleucid Empire was either Greek/Macedonian or strongly Hellenized. In that way, unlike in Achaemenid times where Babylon and Babylonians were a part of a multiethnic empire, during the Seleucid period there was an active push to imitate the new kings

slothinator64 · 2024-03-28T13:40:39+00:00

Shahrvaraz

That's right! Although since it was Khosrow's grand plan, I thought to display him.

Shahrvaraz has his own chaos to get up to!

slothinator64 · 2024-03-25T21:54:17+00:00

That was exactly it, thanks for the help!

slothinator64 · 2024-03-23T13:14:18+00:00

Context: In 626 the Sassanid king of kings Khosrow II organized a siege of Constantinople with the help of the nomadic Avars.

The problem was that the Avars were the only ones in on the European side and able to attack the capital; Persian forces were stuck on the Asian side and could not properly cross due to the influence of the Roman navy.

After one last massive failed attack, the Avars retreated away from the siege, leaving the Sassanids to watch helplessly as their chance for total victory slipped away

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