No, to the people of Macedon, the only true threats come from the Greeks and those Romans who invade from the west. To the north, The Dacians and Thracians may grow strong, but they are also far away. Their cavalry has long been a running joke among true warriors. The Greeks to the South have Spartans, but little else that can threaten us. Our enemies surround us, but we are stronger. Be aware of the history of that city, my lord, because when the current lords rule so badly that the city rebels against them, betimes the city father of Cyrene send envoys to Thessalonica to inform us that Cyrene has shaken off foreign control and once again is a part of our glorious empire.

Cyrene we named it, though it has since fallen to rebels and others. We once founded a city on the shores of Africa. For this, my friend, for this we fight so to retain that city. To be honest, the city itself has little to offer, but upon her lands rests the gigantic and wondrous Statue of Zeus- one of the Seven Wonders of the World. A port, thus valuable, and little else make one wonder why we struggle so to retain this burg amid our foes. Larissa is a key city- from there, our warhost can strike quickly south into the Greeks of Attica and the Peloponnesus, or west to where the Brutii seek to conquer Greek Thermon.Д¬orinth is another of our cities, on the gulf that bears her name. To the south of Thessalonica lies Larissa, another minor city, and one which controls our gateway to the Greeks to its south.

North of Thessalonica lies the large town of Bylazora, guarding the mountain passes against Dacian or Roman aggression from the north. Our land in this virtual world begins with our capital, a minor city named Thessalonica, which was founded forty five years before our Virtual World begins by King Cassander of Macedon, and named for his wife, the half-sister of our Megas Basileus Alexandros- whom you know better as Alexander the Great. By following this link, you may circumvent the will of the gods and take command of the best warriors of the known world. Thus they removed our faction from the roster of those a warlord may choose to command. We are so powerful that the Creators of our virtual world decided our power in the hands of a visiting warlord was too powerful. This is our legacy, that epic triumph of Macedonian arms, which brings more than one warlord to our lands to rule as Basileus. Alexander went further, driving the Persians back across the Hellespont, and pursued them to create an empire larger than the world had ever seen. We have fought beside the Greeks, and against them, and our two greatest kings- Philip II and Alexander III- have conquered them. We are the tribes of Macedon, a semi-Greek people living in the southern Balkans, just north of Greece proper. Welcome, traveler, to the land of hard mountains and harder men.

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