A messenger arrives at the province of Vaestmansland

QUOTE:

To the Svear tribe.

Greetings Chief of the Svear tribe,
I am the Great Zero, Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe.
This is what the Svear tribe has to do to please the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe:

1. The Svear tribe has to send two if it's Warriors to serve the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe. One of these warriors has to be female, and be able to give birth to children; this female will have the great honour and good fortune to become the mother of the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe sons.

2. The Svear tribe will give tribute to the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe in the form of 300 silver.

3. The Svear tribe will not expand further north than it already has; the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe will allow the Svear tribe to keep the province of Bergland (181), and will even allow the Svear tribe to conquer the province of Uppland (179), if the Svear tribe wishes to do so; but remember that the Great and Wise Zero - Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe, will not allow the Svear tribe to expand further north than that.

You have the time of 4 moons (8 RL days) to comply this.

The Great and Wise one has spoken.

After Otmahr and Alarus were disussing about the offer of this Zero both started laughing out loud.

MEAD, free MEAD to all for today!

And the rumor made the round within the armies of Svear and Teutons, Heroes of Zeroes, Zeroes of doublenulls... many nice names where found for this weak peasant, calling himself an Archon.

Later the Locum of war of the teutonic tribe wrote an answer on this funny demand.

QUOTE:
Dear Zero, calling yourself Hero, Archon of Sidonians

We, the teutonic and svear tribe, refuse to achieve the demand made by a tribe not even able to conquer one shire. Specially you are not in belief of the true and real gods.

We are sending you best wishes to raise your tribe, in hope that age may provide you with real wisdom instead of insanity.

Faithfully
Alarus
Locum of war of the teutonic tribe.

Sigfried prepare himself for the great challenge of the Goths Games when he receive word about the way Alarus and Otmahr respond to the entitled request of Great and Wise Zero the Hero. That kind of answer to the One obviously send by gods, if he isn't a god disguised in mortal make him so mad that he broke his favorite spear, in fact the only he have..
What shall I do now? I must fight with the fists only against my opponents swords and axes. And that is only Alarus fault!
Sigfried don't know to write, he even don't know that he can't write, so he call for the village witch, ask her to see in the runes the effect of his best friend Alarus response to the Great and Wise Zero the Hero, corroborate with the fact he broke his spear when tomorrow he will be in the arena for the Gothic Games.
The woman, we must only assume it is a woman, mostly looking like a ghost, only with the eyes of a living being, come in a hurry, throw the runes and shake the head in disappointment:
-Tomorrow will rain! Tomorrow will rain!
Sigfried took the message as it is! She says twice "tomorrow will rain!" and that's bad omen.
-Could you help me to send a message to the Great and Wise Zero the Hero?
What a stupid question! A person wise enough to read the will of gods in the runes can do everything!
- I want to tell the Great and Wise Zero the Hero this:

QUOTE:
Great and Wise Zero the Hero, Ruler of the Great Sidonian Tribe and other tribes who happen to be in your neighbor.. Oh, what I am saying?.. change this.. Ruler of the Entire World Known and Unknown

I beg your pardon for my friend Alarus, he didn't intend any offense to such a great and wise ruler, I'm his best friend and I guarantee for him, please don't strike him down with the lightning, just miss him a bit!

I'm busy for the moment, but you will receive our tribute as you request it a few days after the tribute from Sami and Svear will be delivered to you.
I assure you of our deepest respect for such a person send by gods or even a god himself, like you surely are! We bow before your greatness and await your commands!

Sigfried the.. I need a second name to get more respected, like Hero the Zero is!

The witch took a piece of bark, spit on it to clear it, make some signs and give it to Sigfried.
- Here is your "message", great leader of the Teuton tribe!
Sigfried it's a bit stingy, to not say more.. he look for a silver coin long time and of course he didn't find any in his purse full of silver coins, he turn to the village witch and respectfully says:
- Thanks!
After that he leave the witch in a preoccupied attitude and head to the Hall, before she can say a thing!
Sigfried was sincere, because he was preoccupied to find a messenger and send the bark.. I mean the message to the Great and Wise Zero the Hero.
He meet only an old man who was just thrown away from the tavern for the reasons unknown and Sigfried ask him to deliver the message.
The old man was evidently upset of something, but since he was not able to coherently speak, he reply to the Sigfried request with a belching and some unknown words like:
" bu..bu..bu..sy..
Sigfried took this as an accept and hurry to the tavern, proud to make the gods happy for today!
He already forgot about the spear broken and start to dream:
"Maybe they will help me to win the games tomorrow!!"