For Geoffrey S
The often quoted ancient Greek historian Herodotus shows that: "...after Indians, the Thracian people constituted the largest ethnicity among all the rest of World's races". Let us focus, a little bit, on this issue. In accordance with their geographical location, the first ones who slowly start "detaching" themselves are Geta-Dacians, during the first millennium B.C., throughout various Northern shores of Ister River (today's Danube), and then Illyrians (from the area to be later called Albania), Scythians (living, back then, within the Dobrudja region of modern Romania) etc.

It was fear that forced the Romans, several times defeated by the army of the Thracian Spartacus, to send Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompei (brought from Spain especially for this) against him. Defeated by a huge army, Spartacus dies heroically, in 71BC, near Silar, facing his death with laughter, in the old Dacian tradition.

The concept of Zamolxian immortality was representing the very Ethics' concept among all young warriors of the "the Dacian (Thracian) Wolves", who were enjoying the imminent Death's perspective and were even laughing at it, precisely in order to show their indifference towards such an event and their looking forward to faster reaching God's underground meadows. These youngsters were fighting and dying joyfully under the "Wolf's Head" Dacian banner, which we would also encounter at the Macedonians, as well as at the so-called "Roman " legions later, that had actually been formed from Thracians living within boundaries of the Roman-occupied territories.

So I'm not refering to another period than the one in the game;