Persia

The Persian Empire was a large empire in Asia, located east of Greece. It was ruled by Xerxes as its god-king, waging brutal wars of conquest. Persia was founded by Cyrus The Great in 550 BC/BCE.

History[]

The previous king of Persia, Darius, waged a war against Greece to subjugate its city-states, but his army was defeated by Themistocles, and he was gravely wounded. His son, Xerxes, mourned for his father for several days, listening to his father's warning that "only the gods can defeat Greece". Artemisia, one of Darius's commanders, distorted his warning into "you will become a god-king", driving Xerxes to wander into a cave of mystics to become a self-claimed god.

Under the manipulation of Artemisia, Xerxes waged war against Greece. Yet his armies were held back by Leonidas' army of Spartans, and then repelled by a combined army from the other city-states. Artemisia also fought against the Greeks, and was killed in battle, abandoned by Xerxes.

Real world history[]

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The Achaemenid Empire, commonly known as The Persian Empire was created by nomadic Persians. The Persians were Iranian people who arrived in what is today Iran c. 1000 BC and settled a region including north-western Iran, the Zagros Mountains and Persis alongside the native Elamites. The Persians were originally nomadic pastoralists in the western Iranian Plateau. The Achaemenid Empire may not have been the first Iranian empire, as the Medes, another group of Iranian people, possibly established a short-lived empire when they played a major role in overthrowing the Assyrians.

The Achaemenids were initially rulers of the Elamite city of Anshan near the modern city of Marvdasht; the title "King of Anshan" was an adaptation of the earlier Elamite title "King of Susa and Anshan". There are conflicting accounts of the identities of the earliest Kings of Anshan. According to the Cyrus Cylinder (the oldest extant genealogy of the Achaemenids) the kings of Anshan were Teispes, Cyrus I, Cambyses I and Cyrus II, also known as Cyrus the Great, who founded the empire. The later Behistun Inscription, written by Darius the Great, claims that Teispes was the son of Achaemenes and that Darius is also descended from Teispes through a different line, but no earlier texts mention Achaemenes. In Herodotus' Histories, he writes that Cyrus the Great was the son of Cambyses I and Mandane of Media, the daughter of Astyages, the king of the Median Empire.

Military[]

The Persian army's greatest warriors were the inhuman Immortals.

It utilises human waves made of thousands of infantry, backed by archers and animals such as rhinoceroses and elephants.

Many of the Persian soldiers are of foreign origin, including one tribe of masked soldiers from Asia that used grenades against the Spartans.

The Persian army also used grotesque men, possibly bred or mutilated as deadlier warriors, such as the Uber Immortal and the Executioner.

Sometimes, before the Persian army invades another country, it demands the target to offer a tribute of earth and water. If the offer is refused, a messenger may present the cut heads of dead enemy kings to threaten the target's rulers. Those who do submit to Persian rule are instead rewarded with luxuries.

Politics[]

The Persian Empire of the 300 series is a despotic, theocratic monarchy, where its king is worshipped as a god.

It supposedly covers a vast area stretching from Anatolia (Turkey) to Asia and possibly Africa. People in those far-flung parts were brought to the Persian military as slaves.

One Persian messenger threatened some Greeks who stopped his group: "A thousand nations shall descend upon you". It could be possible that the Persian Empire of 300 might be bigger than the Achaemenid Dynasty of history, hence it possibly being made of a thousand divisions, including Persia itself; or he might be exaggerating.

Society[]

The society of the Persian Empire appears to be very decadent and neglectful.

Slavery was a major instrument of social order in Xerxes' empire.