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- | ====== Apostolos ====== | + | ====== |
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It's been 669 years since I was born into this Earth, and I still think of myself as a Roman. Maybe it's right for me to do so, or perhaps I'm just a bit stubborn. It wouldn' | It's been 669 years since I was born into this Earth, and I still think of myself as a Roman. Maybe it's right for me to do so, or perhaps I'm just a bit stubborn. It wouldn' | ||
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I awoke days later, pained but alive, with my family gone and my childhood home occupied by the Turks. Briefly driven mad by the loss of everything I had known, and by my second " | I awoke days later, pained but alive, with my family gone and my childhood home occupied by the Turks. Briefly driven mad by the loss of everything I had known, and by my second " | ||
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+ | When next I regained my senses, I had found myself a prisoner, and brought before a most remarkable man. Louis I, the Angevin king of Hungary, was the first royal I met, and the one who would end up making the deepest impression upon me. He was tall, full of beard, and possessed of a dominating stature, as well as a strong personality, | ||
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+ | It turned out that I'd wandered pretty far, into the lands of the Bulgars, and it was May of 1365. The Hungarians, who were there subjugating the Tsardom of Vidin, had encountered me, and after resisting the questioning of one of their patrols, I had put up a surprisingly spirited resistance - I was, and am, a pretty well-muscled man, and I definitely know how to fight. Impressed by my fighting ability, and perhaps intrigued by my foreignness, | ||
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+ | More than once in the Hungarians' | ||
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+ | To say I was a favorite of King Louis would be a little bit of an exaggeration, | ||
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+ | This meeting is actually comparatively well-known in the modern day, and I can personally confirm that the details are accurate. The Emperor came across as a little haughty in his dealings with the king, and was denied in his overtures as a result. A part of John's attitude might have had to do with Louis' requirement to convert to the Latin rite in return for support, and so the Emperor left Hungary empty-handed. The unfriendly encounter, however, did not mean that the Hungarian king remained ignorant of the threat that the Turks posed. In coming years, it would be he who bore the distinction of being the first European monarch to clash with the Ottomans. | ||
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+ | Later in 1366, I went to Nicapoli with the armies of Hungary, there to fight the Turks for the second time in my life. I emerged from this second round somewhat more intact than the first. Even this early in my life, I had some inkling of the fact that I would be battling them for a very, very long time. I faced them again in 1374, more confident than ever. I suffered some bad wounds for my cocksureness in that battle, but returned to Buda in good health. | ||
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+ | For the rest of my time as Traianus, I remained mostly in the king's court, enjoying the sort of splendor I'd never been able to enjoy as a boy. Despite all of these, I soon found my head spinning with all the intrigues of the court. These only worsened when the king, sadly, passed in 1382. His Polish domains passed to one daughter, Hedwig, while the rest went to Mary, who seemed to greatly distrust me. With the death of Louis, nowadays appropriately recognized as "the Great", | ||
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+ | I should note I took part in some other campaigns during Louis' rule, namely those in Dalmatia against the Venetians. Like every Roman, I'd been bred with a healthy hatred for the Republic of Venice, though one which faded with time. My antipathy toward the Turks took up most of my attention thereafter. | ||
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+ | Amid the turmoil of that last year as Traianus, I slipped away to return to my roots. I'd had quite my fill of courtly life in my two decades in Buda, and now I wanted some time to make a peaceful living elsewhere. I eventually settled upon the banks of the Tisza River outside of Szolnok, where I spent much of the following years as a farmer. I took the name of Mátyás, a bit of a play on the name of my favorite Gospel. It was a comparatively simple time, spent mostly in the company of farmhands and enjoying the reprieve from the battles of my previous life. During this time, largely unknown to me, Ottoman Turks continued to expand at the expense of the Roman Empire and the Serbs. I know it's silly to think that I could have made any particular difference, but more than once I've felt pangs of regret that I wasn't there fighting at that crucial stage of the growth of the Ottoman Empire. | ||
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+ | By 1415, when old Mátyás should have been pushing almost 60, I quietly quit my farm, leaving it to the family of one of my farmhands, and headed back to the capital. | ||
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+ | I spent the next 20 years as " | ||
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+ | Soon again came around the time when I seemed too young for the liking of my neighbors, and I spirited away from my Buda estate with most of my fortunes to start anew in the southern frontier. | ||
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+ | I arrived in the southern frontier of the Kingdom of Hungary around 1440, and the next year, it's protection fell to John Hunyadi, whose legacy I was destined to be intertwined with again three decades later. I fought the Turks in his service, but ultimately " | ||
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+ | This was led by the famous Gjergj Kastrioti, better known as Skanderbeg. Once a Turkish vassal, he had quit the field in battle against Hunyadi' | ||
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+ | I was distraught to see it confirmed that the Empire in which I was born had at last succumbed, and the Turks held the city on the straits. I didn't have much time to appreciate my first visit to a city I'd only heard of in legend and rumor, for the Ottomans had a harsh punishment in store for me and my fellow captives. | ||
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+ | Once my skin grew back, I escaped on an Italian merchant ship to Dalmatia and returned, again, to Hungary. | ||
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+ | ==== Session 8 ==== | ||
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+ | __[[Prometheus]]: | ||
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+ | ==== Personal information ==== | ||
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+ | **Birth Name:** Apostolos\\ | ||
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+ | **Birth Place:** Demotika, Thrace\\ | ||
+ | **Status at Birth:** \\ | ||
+ | **Relation to other Eternals:** \\ | ||
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+ | ==== See Also ==== | ||
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+ | **[[The Trust]]** | ||
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+ | ==== Navigation ==== | ||
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