Chapter I


It’s now the autumn of 259. The forces of the mighty Arkah enter the of Edessa but the minor forces that wonder around the city are getting attack and defeated without much difficulty.



A few months have passed since the last battle and now Samus is confined to his bed he’s very sick the medics where not certain if he would survive. And the priests taught it was a punishment send to him by the gods. But when the king was sick he had many dreams, he also taught that his father who already was dead for 11 years was talking to him but on the last day of the winter the king had a very strange dream. His dream was about the day that he told the council about his son becoming the new avagh sepuh.

Dream of the Arkah
Samus telling: I stood there before the council and my brother to my left side and my son, Aram , to my right . And all the nobility stood in front of me they didn’t knew why I called them here . Nor do my brother or son know why. And I start my speech “ Welcome my brothers mighty ,nakharars and aspet ner , I know you’re dying to know why. Bu I ask you for a little more patience . First I want to tell you that the Selcuecids have been defeated and have left our lands and it is time now to go and attack the city of Karkathiokerta. Let’s bring the war to their doorstep and see how they can handle the mighty horse archers .” Everybody started to scream of joy that they would get their revenge. Many of them have lost a son or someone else they have loved because of the war . I started to speak again and now it was quiet at the field . We didn’t use a building but we came together at the valley of Ararat so that the gods could see us and know that our decisions where just. “The second part of my announcement, you all know that my brother is the avagh sepuh but I want to change that , my eldest son is now mature like you all know, so I want you to meet your next king and lord Aram.” At that moment many stood up in anger and said that “How he can become our next king if he hasn’t proven him in battle yet what has he done that your brother hasn’t done?” Aram who has a very bad tamper stood and said I’ll go to the province of Aghvan and conquer it for my father and the kingdom and prove that I’m worthy to be your king.” At that moment I looked to my left and saw that my brother was gone and in the distant I could see a horse riding towards Armavir that was also the last time I spoke to my brother. There were only two reasons why he didn’t start a civil war at first he loved me too much to start a war but he now hates Aram and the second one was that no army would follow him in war he may have the loyalty of many nobles but the soldiers follow their Arkah to war.

After that moment the king was well and his disease was gone nobody knew how it came. After the dream spring , garun begun and the birds started to sing and the army marched towards Edessa. A month later they arrived there and laid siege to the city. Samus was expecting reinforcement from Antioch but it never came in the begin of the summer the mighty army attacked the city and took the city with one or two deaths.



Description of the battle :
It was middle of the night when the rams moved towards the walls



After a while our troops broke the gate and moved in the city



The slaughter that followed I’ll not describe but there was no Seleucid warrior alive after the battle even those who surrendered where killed.
End chapter one

I'll post part two Wednesday that will include the seige of Phraaspa and hopefully many more