[FONT="]Prologue; Part I; The Age of Legends and Invincibles[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
It all started when the king of Hellenicos, King Alexander the Great of House Alexandros invaded Thracia in the year 18. After he declared himself King of Thracia two months after the invasion his ambition still stood strong to conquer more of the European territory. He married the Thracian princess Rescuturme in the year 19. In the year 20 his wife gave birth to Hellenica, Alexander's oldest child and one of the three descendents.
In the year 22 his only [/FONT][FONT="]son[/FONT][FONT="] Petros was born. In the year 26 his last child and daughter Apollonica was born. Alexander conquered the rest of the south-eastern peninsula in the year 24. He was declared Emperor of Daemos, starting a cult around his personality in the year 27, called Alexandros-Apollonian. It was a cult and religion based on the believe that Alexander was the earthly incarnate of Apollo, the God of war, and that only descendants of Alexander could reign the Empire of Daemos.
An Alexandros-Apollonian temple in the year of 320
However, his cult would soon fall apart with the death of Alexander the Great in the year 28. His only son Petros I was the heir to the throne. And so, at age 6, Petros I became the Emperor of Daemos.
Petros was not a cruel and might hungry man as his father. Instead, Petros was largely content with the Empire he ruled. The reign and conquering of his father resulted in a largely corrupt and rebellious [/FONT][FONT="]realm[/FONT][FONT="]. Petros was fastly determined to change this. He enforced different acts to destroy most of the corruption in his realm. One of the problems was that the elite in all conquered areas still kept to their own culture. Petros changed this by arranging a marriage between the most powerfull rulers in Dacia and Daemos Inferior (the most Northern province) and his two sisters. Hellenica married Burebista and Apollonica married Zyraxes. Furthermore he stated that every meeting between the noblemen and other wealthy persons had to be spoken in Greek. These decisions were made in the year 45 to encourage cultural [/FONT][FONT="]flexebility[/FONT][FONT="] and intergration. All faired well, untill a next event would take place...[/FONT]
[FONT="]In the year 48 Petros had a vision in which a man with a golden mask spoke to him in the infamous words; ''don't destroy what your father has build''. In just a day he demanded the full Hellenistic intergration of the conquered territories. He furthermore would kill or arrest anyone withstanding the intergration of the Hellenistic faith, culture and hierarchial system. He declared that Alexandros-Apollonian faith was the one and only true faith, but instead of seeing his father as a God, he saw his father as a prophet. In a next vision, a man with a silver mask appeared and said to him; ''Thy shall marry a woman from the east, and she shall give thy many children''.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Petros himself married the Persian woman Meherab, just like the vision said, in the year 51. Just one year after his sister Apollonica died. His marraige to Meherab was fruitfull; they had two sons and three daughters, Alexander, Ikosos, Agape, Alexis and Aspasia respectively. Alexander and Agape were born in the year 51, Ikosos in 52, Alexis in 53 and Aspasia in the year 55. They were all seen as descendents of Alexander and therefore godly to most followers. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Their father Petros did not sit still, and he was away home for long times, conquering other countries in the name of Alexander. But eventually, just like his father, his dying place would be on the battlefield. In just four years, he conquered most of Italy, the Alps and Southern Germany. Hellenistic culture was now widespread in the European realms, and all the people now dreamed dying in the name of Alexander.[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Many years passed, and the children of Alexander II still hold the throne. With the prologue of southern Europe told, there is not much left to conquer in the old world, that was, untill the next contact would come. And it would be, that the message of the man in the silver mask, would not be for Petros...
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