The Hip Historian Iaredios

That's it! THIS IS PEEEEWWWWDIEPIIIIIIIEEEE! FIst BUmp!!

Red-Light District can get you going.

....Feather head?

I only now just saw the fez. After all this time i thought the entire head was made of standard lego bricks. I iz smert No. Senor Scrublord mistook Senor Slit-nose as Senor Zizka. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/jan-zizka-general-skin-turned-drum-2/

To a new world order *clink* No, not the undefeated cyclops who became a post-mortem war drum. That there (as my present avatar) would be a son, a nephew, twice a husband, twice a father, an artist, a soldier, an architect, Caesar, Basileus, tes Porphyrogennetos the Purple-Born, Savior of Thessolanika and all Hellas, Arab foe, Reconquerer, Backer of the Greens, the Betrayed, dethroned once, tes Rhinometus the Slit-Nosed, the Revenant, Crimean Exile, Prince among the Barbarians, the Persevered, the man with the Golden-Nose, the Revenant, crowned Emperor of all Romans and Christians, Keeper of the New Jerusalem that Queen of Cities Konstantinopolis on the Golden Horn, and Regent of God in Pantokrator over all of the Universe, twice, Slayer of Traitors, Treaty-breaker, Agitator of the World, dethroned twice, Herald of the Twenty Years' Anarchy, the Decapitated, and the Last of the Heraclians. I think I'll name him Senor Slit-nose. Sounds better then Slit-Tongue, though equally correct.

Hey, it's not weird, my wife made me that crown, it's made to look like my namesake's crown! And people don't like my wife because she's a foreigner so she gets enough crud as is. They even insult my son, Tiberius, due to his mixed lineage. The monsters.

Definitely Greek sounding, ending in 'os'. I might have to ask for your permission to borrow it.

Venetoi! - Prasinoi!, by Turisas (Blues! - Greens!) Captures how incredibly dangerous chariot games could get, especially since these Roman sports teams doubled as political parties and this is how tension would be resolved without resulting to war.

Akkar

That is awesome. Love the smoothness of the actual body and the squares in the eyes. And those feathers are cunningly constructed, fit for a certain Roman crown. .

So long as Games and More, and Non-Lego Forums are alive, there will still be life here on BZPower.

Despite what others say, I think your name could pass as Roman, the usage of an O instead of a U makes me think of it's existence after they stopped using Latin and instead adopted Greek.

Danuvius

Fear the Fear, by Turisas.

3/5 Nice cover. Doesn't beat the original though.

al-Andalus

i like the way you made that hammer.

Why hello! Things have changed, especially in regards to the website population, but the Completely Off Topic and Games forums are still living. Hope you enjoy your visit.

Cheers, to a happy birthday to my best friend. Hope it's a good one my man!. Be sure to give Roman toast a try.

Star Trek: Online Besides two movies that I haven't seen in forever (save the whales movie and the first JJ Abrams reboot movie) and the one classic tribble episode, I never dabbled in Star Trek, and having made a Space Skrall custom race character on the side of the Klingon Empire. I have found this all to be pretty interesting. it is also cool to have Worf give you missions and voice your "level up", so I get to hear the voice of the Great Spirit Mata Nui again.

To a new world order. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdEKTV_QOp0

Are those lightsabers?

End of an Empire, by Turisas

Race track time. Also, after the Roman Empire was once again split into two after the death of Theodosius I, realm of the Oriental Emperors did not really have much connection to the gladiator fights like the West did, being more interested in chariot races, so once the Occidental imperialship lost power to foreigners and was abolished by the Oriental imperialship (melding the two halves back into a state with a single ruler), gladiator matches were abandoned and all focus was put into the ancient chariot teams (which were long modeled after the chariot games of Alexandria, Egypt). one part of this has to do with the Christian majority in the East not finding them Christian enough (as they were both uselessly bloody and were rooted with pagan tradition), which I personally find hilarious as these very Oriental Romans were usually not okay with death sentences unless they were a true threat (like heretic leaders and rebel commanders), so opted for the more 'merciful' route of mutilating their faces rather than killing them. Despite being the most notable one, the War of Spartacus was only the third yet largest and final of the three Servile Wars. After the defeat of Spartacus and the crucifixion of all his supporters along one of the roads to the city of Rome, it was illegal for slaves to be near Rome without being accompanied by their masters. Once the chariot games were made the official games of the Roman Empire, the different colored teams grew to have an almost religious place in the lives of the people, and they morphed into being both sports teams as well as political parties. The two most powerful team-parties were the Nikean Greens and the Venetian Blues, which the Greens lost political power for a long time after they were displeased by the tax reforms of Justinian I and incited the Nikean Riots and the Greens and their angry mob were massacred by Justinian royal guards in the sacred race track the Hippodrome of Konstantinopolis. There was also the Reds and the Whites, but after the recovery of the Greens, these two secondary team-parties were absorbed by the dominant Greens and Blues. In the Hippodrome of Konstantinopolis, one of the capitals of the Roman Empire since 330 AD, there was a bizarre column that stood well over 26 feet tall that was more ancient than the Roman Empire itself and still stands to this day at around the age of 2500 years, though in ruin, called the Serpent Column. It is made of three metal snakes of brass twisting around each other, their heads arching to the side with toothed jaws open and a large golden bowl resting on their necks where burnt sacrifices were delivered to the gods. After the great Battle of Plataea saw the Greek coalition victorious over Second Achaemenid invasion of Greece, this slithery statue was erected in 478 BC as an offering to Zeus and to the Oracle of Delphi in Egypt in commemoration to those city-states who took part in the war. It is written in ancient Greek on the coils "Those who fought in the War" and goes on to name the cities that took part in the national defense along down the three wrapping tendrils (many of these cities have been lost to time so only their names remain). Centuries later around 330 AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine I was designing his new capital of New Rome after razing the remnants of a ruined Byzantium to the ground, he decided to relocate the Serpent Column from Egypt to his new race track, the Hippodrome, whose median was decorated with columns and obelisks, and even a giant statue of Constantine cosplaying as his other god, Sol Invictus (he worshiped both the Sun and Christ). Later on, when New Rome was renamed to Konstantinopolis and pagan practices had died out after the reign of Theodosius I, and the titanic Column of Justinian I (wearing the Triumph feathered crown of Heracleus) was added to the Hippodrome median, illustrations of the Serpent Column sometimes show an orange orb, which makes some think that it is just a simple drawing of fire, or that a large orange-colored jewel orb was resting there, and it is described in later centuries that the serpent column had been transformed by the orders of an unaccredited Emperor as a fountain that shot out water from the mouths of the three serpents. Much later, such latter descriptions ceased which I will blame on the Crusader's Sack of Constantinople of 1204, as well as the Golden Bowl of Zeus missing. Later in 1453, when the Sultan Mehmed II of Osmanli stormed into Konstantinopolis with his soldiers, while indeed in awe by this decaying architecture-heaven on earth, when he saw the Serpent Column, he saw it as the pagan talisman of the Romans, and in his zealous muslim iconoclasm, took a steel mace and on horseback ran over to the column and swatted one of the jaws off of the ancient statue in show of his victory against the infidel. Later that century, as the new Ottoman rulers learned what was written on the statue and wanted to further quell rebellious attitudes, they had the statue buried deep in dirt so that only the middle and the top of the statue were shown. Then in the year 1700, due to it's great age and probably by being abused by sackers, hit by a mace, and leaned on by drunk tourists, the top with the snake head snapped off and fell apart on the ground. in the 20th Century, the inscriptions were uncovered making it's present height 26 feet, and a limited recreation was made at the site of the temple in Delphi.