Leader Spotlight: Theodora

[Laurana Kanan]

The Empress

I am Theodora, who came from nothing to the throne on nought but dreams.​

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May I never see the day when those who meet me do not call me Empress.​

 

[Laurana Kanan]

Finally uploaded at such a weird time.

@Kupe Navigator Here's your Leader Spotlight video.

 

[InsidiousMage]

And now the Spotlight has some quick facts at the end. I guess they really are just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

And now the Spotlight has some quick facts at the end.

I was just getting ready to post that.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Well, she at the very least got that seductive(?) voice that I enjoy.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

She sounds and looks regnal enough. I have no problem with this. As least she isn't lounging in a tube top this time,

 

[Laurana Kanan]

So she's the Vivian Ward to Justinian's Edward Lewis?

 

[InsidiousMage]

She sounds and looks regnal enough. I have no problem with this. As least she isn't lounging in a tube top this time,

I feel like the only (slight) issue is that her voices feels a couple decades older than her appearance.

Snark above aside, I do like the quick facts.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

It's not like she was a common street prostitute being picked up by Justinian in his Porsche. She was both an actress and a courtesan. Her clientele were the elites of Constantinople.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If that's true it's not exactly coming from nothing tbh

True

 

[InsidiousMage]

It's not like she was a common street prostitute being picked up by Justinian in his Porsche.

Clearly you've never read your Procopius.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Clearly you've never read your Procopius.

I was riffing on Laurana's reference to Pretty Woman

 

[InsidiousMage]

I was riffing on Laurana's reference to Pretty Woman

Yeah, I got that hence the ""

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I would suggest that Procopius's Secret History be taken with a grain of salt. Some of his accusations seem highly unlikely, as there would be too many witnesses for them to be true.

 

[Kupe Navigator]

Finally uploaded at such a weird time.

@Kupe Navigator Here's your Leader Spotlight video.

What a weird time indeed. What time is it in America? Hope they don't ruin Sejong... it better be better than infamously memeable voice in civ 5.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

Here's the even more belated tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634723433409048576

Theodora fortifies, apparently.

 

[InsidiousMage]

I would suggest that Procopius's Secret History be taken with a grain of salt. Some of his accusations seem highly unlikely, as there would be too many witnesses for them to be true.

Never said it should be taken literally either, I was making a joke.

 

[Laurana Kanan]

I do like the quick facts.

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[Eagle Pursuit]

So, the tweet, "While other fell, Theodora fortified", plus her quote in the video about "never seeing the day when she would not be called empress" seem to be references to the Nika Riots. At least the last one definitely is. The line is from the speech she allegedly gave to convince Justinian to subdue the riots instead of fleeing.