"We admit, we are still at war with the Sweboz tribe, but we have diplomats trying to persuade them to peace.
The Greeks in our court have told us that Zamolxis has been to Alexandria and came back to our homeland with a treasure of knowledge. With almost all Thrakian tribes, Greek peoples to Bizantion under the rule of Basileus and the new Romanoi threat quelled in the west we had a bit of peace. Many tarabostes opposed going over the Great Sea, but the Basileus was committed to it.
It was, of course, as previously stated a matter of getting closer to Zalmolxis, but it was a pragmatic fore-thinking decision. The tribes are used to war and if not kept with a common purpose banded together, they might go for searching individual goals. So we give them one:
A fertile new land
We had spies and diplomats on this lands for a long area, even from 270 BC, when we started trading with those far away Makedonians. We we're at ends with Makedonians at those times, but their star has dimmed -unfortunate for them, fortunate for us.
We we're quite surprised when Theodoros, an Makedonian by origin from the Ptolemaioi dinasty was quite eager to join us. Some might call it treason, but the fact was Pahlava was eating away huge parts of his lands and the strongest ones after them would be us. Your enemy's enemy is your friend. His aid was really welcomed in keeping his own people happy after the Basileus took over Alexandria.
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