Just a short chapter without any battles or real gaming in it, but some vital plot action. Though to school and football, I´m not sure how much I will be able to write, but maybe I´ll manage to get some more in this week. Maybe.

Chapter 5: The Great Journey

As Pyrrhos got ever more alcoholic in Salamis the gods despaired of him.

Long had they watched over him and aided him in all ways, seeing in him a second Megas Alexandros, but at every opportunity he had betrayed their trust.
Now they had enough, and finally gave up upon him and the rest of mankind, and went back to playing football on Mount Olympos, occasionally raping some innocent girl and poking fun at the Titans in Tartarus.
Only a few gods keept faith about mankind, cheif among these Athena, patron of Athens. She is determined to make Pyrrhos a second Megas Alexandros, one that will conquer to the ends of the world and more, and this time his empire will last for millenias, in a Golden Age of peace and prosperity.

In one of his drunken dreams Athena appears before Pyrrhos and tells him of all this, and he is overjoyed. However he somewhat misunderstands her instructions, and begins the preparations to sail to the end of the world in order to conquer it, and nothing along the way.
Athena simply bangs her into a wall and joins the other gods in passing water upon Kronos, having given up her faith to mankind.

Pyrrhos however sets out with great energy, and swiftly takes the first merchant ship he can find and sets sail for Rhodos, where the great Polireme is being built. He does not even take time to say goodbye to his youngest son and heir to his throne, but simply leaves him a letter, saying the following:

Dear Helenos.

I apologise for my many failures as a father. Know that I always loved you and wished you well, even in my darkest hours.
I am about to embark upon a great journey, to the end of the world, where I intend to set up a new Empire, worthy of the patronage of Athena. I am afraid that I must go alone on this journey, no friends or loved ones can I bring with me, only soldiers to slay those who oppose my rightoues cause.
I will leave most of the wine behind and the Scythian women, for this is a pleasurely vacation, but a most serious voyage that I have set out upon, and I must be focused upon my duties.
I do not believe we will ever see each other again, for my journey will be long and hazardous, and no matter how little I like to admit it, I am an aging man, the prime of my life long gone. I had hoped that togheter we could have built a strong Empire that would stand the test of time, but alas, that is not to be.
I wish you all things good and leave you no orders, for this is now your own life, and your own Kingdom. Perhaps one day you will follow me to the world´s end, and we shall meet again. If not, I shall wait for you in Hades, or the Elysian Fields, if the gods wish it so.

Your everloving father, Pyrrhos Aiakides.

So Pyrrhos set out for Rhodos.


Pyrrhos soon reached Rhodos, and after a short time of loading supplies and rowers he boarded the great ship, and set sail for his first stop, Krete.


So begins the great journey of Pyrrhos Aiakides, Basileus of Epirus, Syrakousai, Krete, Rhodos and Kypros. Victor over Makedonia, Rome, Karkhēdōn and the Illyrioi.
The world is moving, history is in the making. All across the known world armies are moving, forces are gathering. War rages on all fronts, but amidst this storm there is one man of calm, one man with a clear goal; to conquer the end of the world, and he will stop at nothing to acheive this goal.
So in this year of the 510th year after the first Olympiad, the third year of the 128 Olympiad, 489 years after the founding of Rome, 558 years after the founding of Karkhēdōn, in the 21st year of Pharao Ptolemaios II Philadelphos, 33 years after the founding of the Pontic dynasteia by Mithradates Ktistes and 57 years after the death of Pyrrhos great cousin, Megas Alexandros, the Great Journey began. And great it would be.

Next chapter: A time of war.