The Royal Council

[The Celtic Viking]

"Timarchos, you make assumptions based on nothing but your own imagination. I recalled my army because I figured I would need it to conquer Pergamon. Remember? I already told you and everyone else here I had planned to take it prior to this Council. The second time it would have been completely unnecessary to send you, since Arrhenides was already on his way there, so to waste time on that would have made absolutely no sense. Your failure to see this just shows what I've been hinting at all the time: you just don't like me because I won't let you have your battles with my army. You want to further yourself as much as possible, and when I remind you that the men you're playing with are actually mine to command, you behave like a child and attack me because of it.

If there was any sense in you, you'd know that the slander I was talking about was still mainly your saying that I am only the heir because I'm the son of the Basileus, when there is absolutely no reason to think so, and it's false. You continue doing this even now, but changing it to the satrapy I got. Yes, it was all merit! Are you really foolish enough to suggest otherwise, when everyone knows how good I am at management? You're making a fool out of yourself as we speak, and should really be ashamed. Really, I dare anyone to take a look at my work and say I haven't done a good job, that I don't have the skills necessary. Anyone with anything resembling a fair and unbiased mind will come to the conclusion that I was indeed the best choice there were, and so I remain.

Your way of ignoring the facts in order to fuel your personal agenda should be blatantly obvious to everyone by now."