Read the update actually now. Very good indeed, but I want to know if a PC nation could possibly be destroyed before the actual NES starts. Would be cruel, but realistic. Also, how come are there so many barbarians in the middle of Sahara and in Chukotka (the complaint about the latter is, why isn't there an Empire of Luorovettlan?
)?
Btw, no changes in settings for me. "We shall go on by this path!"
IC:
Charge after charge,
All for Baal,
Charge after charge,
All for Baal...
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Roshe-ar ("Land General") Kahalid Yathrib looked at the sky aghast, very irritated. But he immediately silenced the thoughts - Baal thought that what HE did was right, and as Baal was the God, well, all was in HIS will. Even when it hurt Syria... but was not Baal the God of ALL PEOPLE? Perhaps the Syrians displeased him, somewhat. Perhaps...
Well, only the wisest priests as far as Kahalid knew understood all the delicacies of theology. That was their role; his was simply to carry out orders of baal-maluk.
Ashur withstood the attack. The Babylonians fought like desert-demons, like giant four-eyed cats of the Hyksos nomad superstitions in the southern parts of the Syrian Malukate (Empire). With long spear and short sword, the Babylonians clashed with the Syrians, and not even the
mahlaavodim could force them out.
And on the next day, a priest delivered baal-maluk's order. The war is to end. Nineveh remained untaken. Still, the Babylonians had to concede two provinces within Mesopatamia itself, that was also an accomplishment. Tigrana and Osroene, these two provinces would yet become the new gathering points for the war with Babylon!
For a new war would come.
The burning sun, the angry general, the hated city.
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The Babylonian delegation has by then departed, and Kahalid Yathrib remembered something he heard from the merchants. The Hebrews, in the southern Babylonian lands (who are notable for worshipping a single god, a single face of Baal, only they called him differently, or rather preffered to avoid calling him at all - in a way it made sense, but only for as long as Baal was not amongst them), or rather some of their priests, predicted that tomorrow, on the Current Maluk's Thirty Second Year from First-Birth, a baby would be born amongst the Hebrews, who will lead them to rebellion and build a great empire. As the rebellion and the empire would probably be at the expense of the Babylonians, Kahalid Yathrib wished they were right. They said a bright star would shine this night to signify that. Kahalid was unsure that the star would be seen here, but...
And even if the Hebrews don't get their demigod (or god? It would make sense for Baal to create such an avatar to punish the Babylonians for their arrogance) leader this time, somehow Kahalid Yathrib knew, felt it in the warm air outside of Nineveh, that a new era would come.