>>2810997When Ashurbanipal burnt and pillaged Meosopotamia, he believed his reign was to be remembered eternally, that its gods were to never be forgotten, and his glorious city was to reign eternally.
When Xenophon was in Persia, he fell upon vast ruins of a great empire. He asked the locals about whom those cities belonged.
None of them even had a clue. The Hittite also believed their reign eternal, and yet for thousands of years, people had completly forgotten them, relegated to a mere mention in the bible, a fate neither the Babylonians nor the Assyrians ever had.
The Egyptians built the greatest structure known to men, the land of the Pharaohs built gigantic statues whose fate was to be pillaged by the raiders from the deserts in the name of a god they didn't even know.
The Greeks colonised the mediterranian, spread their culture and faith across these lands, but even they failed, their former colony arose and burnt them to the ground.
This colony, Rome, overexpanded, it had become greater then any before them and it became divided, corrupt and weak, a horselord was enough to sent them down a spiral they never recovered from.
The Persians, their enternal rival faught one last bloody war against them, sending everything they had in a desperate shot at victory, and not only did they lose, they allow a new God to take the place of the fire worshippers.
So then, who ? Who survived the onslaught of the ancient fertile cressent ? Of whom Mare Nostrum is Nostrum ?
It is of those with naught, of those with only their belief in their hand, of conviction, that is the greatest strenght, it is not the army, it is not glory, it is not violence, it is not land, it is belief.
And as such, Glorious Keir will rise once more, he will defeat the opportunists, the lunatics and the vile. To triumph finally once and for all above the idealist, the idolatre, the weak and the strong, for He has belief and those that believe in him, for all other have only their greed, hatred and weakness in them.