Riddle of Ages: Travelling Through History

[strijder20]

Ottomans! Them Turkish sponsors of those Barbary states.

Yup, you guessed it.

Moon refers to the Islamic symbol, legacy to the Byzantines.

 

[Terrance888]

Poisoned arrow in my arm
So what? There is no harm!
Go scrub it off for me
While I talk with my friends you see
What? There is no pain.
And really, I promise you, I'm not insane

 

[strijder20]

Buddha?

 

[Terrance888]

Nope. It is a person.

 

[Optical]

Wild guess: Richard the Lionheart?

 

[W|M]

Caligula?

 

[strijder20]

Nope. It is a person.

Actually, Buddha is a person too

 

[Terrance888]

I mean It IS a person, as in you figured out it isn't a country or something.

Nope all of you. Look eastwards.

 

[Bowsling]

Cook?

 

[JohannaK]

Confucius?

 

[Terrance888]

Nope.

 

[mayor]

Artabanus I of Parhia

 

[Optical]

Oda Nobunaga?

 

[Terrance888]

Should I give more hints/give up?

Nope.

 

[mayor]

saying while know it isn't right... Magellan


I think I'm focusing too much on that poisoned arrow

 

[strijder20]

I'd like to see another hint/verse. And it's an Asian?

 

[W|M]

Aurangzeb?

 

[Terrance888]

Nope yet.

More letter. Promise.

 

[Terrance888]

In Romance, they exaggerate
But not as much as you would think
Because I am truly great
Strongest of Three links

 

[W|M]

Timur?