Yet they'd probably all jump to sacrifice one of their own to an angry god of their own pantheon.
The Ancient World was racist.
Yeah, I'm still not on the roster.
The Hoosier Alliance wrote:The Imperial Reach wrote:
You'd really rather fight an expensive, drawn-out war instead of just holding a beauty contest and giving the winner a one-way ticket to Lesbos 2.0?
I mean, whatever floats your boat...
Not only the point about you being a foreign culture, but also the terms of the “alliance”. Would we be some sort of a subject or an equal partner?
Equal, though in hindsight I probably should have been clearer on that. It was a "you scratch our back, we'll scratch yours" deal, y'know? Considering the city's' martial traditions, population, and wealth it's not a bad deal really.