The Exodus

This is the order of the deities:
Beloved children of the Sarmatians, Horsemen and Amazons, you failed in fulfilling our will! We offered you the chance to bring our equity, our culture and our peace to the mankind.

But what did you do when you had the chance to defeat the Romans and the “little bit more north Romans”? Did you destroy the temples of the blasphemer? Did you teach the Romans of all kind the Samartian way? – No, you failed!

Therefore we sent to you the plague of the Romans, the “little bit more north Romans” and the “Very North Romans”. And your home country will be cursed forever! Give up your homes and ride as homeless riders through the world! Take this as our punishment to you!

But see there is a chance of redemption!
In our Divine Grace we send you out to find the real Amazons, warriors against profanity. It’s your purpose to fulfill our will. Don’t fail again!

Now this chapter of a Sarmatians history is closed

Rhusz’s speech after the liberation of Kreta

QUOTE:
Elymians! Divine fighters!

Kreta is liberated now! I thank you warriors for your fight. I thank you Macedonians for your support

In the last years we surrounded the world. We had a lot of fun but also a lot of fighting. We lived in different places.

What did we learn from our travels?
There are a lot of different tribes in the world, a lot of different cultures. That’s the Divine order. That’s the order of diversity. This is a divine law.

But what did we also see?
The world is divided into two parts. We are member of the one part. Let’s name it like it is: The keepers of diversity and freedom. But there is another trend in this world also, represented by the Romans and its vassals.
They want to get the entire world under their control.
They want to make their culture to the one and only in the world.
They want us to make their deities to our deities.
They want to make us to their slaves.
They want to destroy us!

But we are leaded by the Divine Purpose. We will survive and triumph. This is our purpose.

We don’t care if they call us pirates
We are motivated if they call us Barbarians.
We are aimed in our purpose if they destroy our provinces.
We know we are under the leadership of the divine purpose

Might be we will lose a battle against Rome and its vassals.
Might be me or one of you get killed in a fight.
But we will never stop fighting against the monster called Rome, as long they don’t stop to suppress diversity and freedom in the world.

We are not only fighting for a better world in freedom.
We are fighting for a better world in freedom, in peace and in diversity for our children, for our culture and our deities.

Kreta is liberated now.
But there is no time left for celebrating the victory.
Let’s sail towards our next mission!
We are leaded by the Gods.
This is our destiny.

... at Burnu...

We did what we were trained to do...
... what we were bred to do...
... what we were born to do.
No prisoners. No mercy.
A good start.

"Nauarchos, the Macedonians already hoist their flag - We've won. There are no survivors, but Egyptian troops are being reported at the gates!"

"Thanks, Nautes - this are good news... for now. It was a honour for me to fight at your side. So, do me a last favour for today: Find my Trierarchos - they should free the incarcerated Phrygians. They shall tell them that we know that they didn't asked to be freed - but we don't accept imprisoned free warrior anywhere. But let them also know that Freedom isn't free at all - that it comes with the highest of costs, the cost of blood.
Afterwards find Kybernetes Nesseia - She shall regroup the troops at the harbour and give them a rest. I'll search for Butch - shouldn't be that hard because there aren't to many taverns here. We wiil see us tomorrow for another battle - Well done, Nautes!

In the same moment as the Elymian warrior heads back to the harbour, Eadgils heavily regorged - he still felt the seasickness after hours at land... The live of a steppe warrior has been much more easier. Eadgils was sure that he would hate ships for the rest of his live. But being drunk as hell at the end of the day would help him to come over with this...There was so much wine left...

... at Montenegro, battle eve...

And old Nautes complains:
"Oh that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in Asia Minor
That do no work today!"

After a while the Nauarchos answers:
"What's he that wishes so?
My good Nautes? No, my old mate;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.

The Will of the Deity - I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Baal, I am not covetous for silver,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.

No, faith, my comrade, wish not a man from Asia Minor.
Deity's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Nautes, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his marching order shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And this day shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered -

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;

For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen at Asia Minor now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon the Deity's day."

QUOTE:
Definitively stolen from W.S. - But it is fitting like hell ;)

... meanwhile in the Mediterranean Sea ...

A council of war was held on the flagship of the Macedonian/Sicilian fleet. The question was raised what the war against the Roman coalition is all about. It was up to the Nauarchos to answer this question...

"This is not a question of fighting for Macedonia or fighting for Sicilia.
We are fighting to save the whole free world from the pestilence of Roman tyranny and in defense of all that is most sacred to man.
This is no war of domination or imperial aggrandizement or material gain; no war to shut any country out of its sunlight and means of progress. It is a war, viewed in its inherent quality, to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual, and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.

Perhaps it might seem a paradox that a war undertaken in the name of liberty and right should require, as a necessary part of its processes, the surrender for the time being of so many of the dearly valued liberties and rights. In these last few days the Council of Elders has been voting dozens of Bills which hand over to the executive our most dearly valued traditional liberties. We are sure that these liberties will be in hands which will not abuse them, which will use them for no class or party interests, which will cherish and guard them, and we look forward to the day, surely and confidently we look forward to the day, when our liberties and rights will be restored to us, and when we shall be able to share them with the peoples to whom such blessings are unknown.

Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days; these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank the Deity that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our tribes.
That here isn't just a war - it's a mission, my Band of Brothers!"