Well done. How did Armenia end up having a lone town on the western frontier of the Sarmatian Confederacy?
I think it might have revolted to them - either that or they conquered it a couple hundred turns ago. iirc, the sequence of events was they expanded outward and conquered a whole swath of land from the Sauromatae, then the Sauromatae took back most of it and Pontos kicked them out of their original homeland. Then, when I defeated Pontos, I gave them back their homeland to serve as a buffer zone between the Romani and the Arche Seleukeia.

Thanks, and yeah I think that "Slain by Sabaeans" trait is a result of loading an EB1.o game in EB1.2, I'm pretty sure he wasn't a zombie in the original save.
But on the bright side, now your forces will be invincible, since no faction has shotguns, chainsaws or any of the basic equipment for fighting Zombies! -M