Thread: Oedipus Rex

A prosperous kingdom.. The merchants still make a wealth of profit, and the scholars are just as prosperous as they once were. Most educated ones were bilingual in Greek and Latin. Art, Philosophy, and Education were of the utmost importance in these times. The architecture that spanned the prosperous vastness of their kingdom was lined with pillared homes and gorgeous buildings made of limestone. Pillars as high as the sky. Various temples here and there. A plethora of people usually had a place of worship within the walls of their own abodes. Be they small or a room dedicated to their deity or deities of choice. The Colosseum was revered and brought in taxes with ease. The marketplace was filled with merchants from various areas of the globe, bringing with them new and interesting artifacts from afar. Their government seemed to develop a political system that encouraged growth and expansion, with a local prominence on the attainment of military honours, as well as a sustainable system of provincial governors that precluded an unwise over-exertion of their military resources. Allowing them to easily overcome their neighbors in the past. As it went for those lucky enough to be in the city. The rest of the population found it... Charming. Simply Charming. That was the only thing the Barbarians could say for the the Kingdom somehow placed under Queen Isis and her consort. They possessed vast land, though little seemed to matter outside of the main city. There were large buildings, but they simply took up land, spreading out rather than up, taking up large amounts of fuel to head during the winters and stormy seasons. When they didn't simply redirect the storms and cold away from themselves. Surrounding Her Kingdom were a multitude of other lands that had power vacuums or were fighting from the economic hegemony of the reprehensible Matriarchy. The women was married, yes, but she didn't seem to give up power to her husband. She just stodd there looking pretty while entire species were brought to extiction for the bread and circus that was the Colosseum, where the merchants paid their taxes not in gold or food, but in exotic animals and races for overblown prices. But she never was the kind to let that get in the way of her airyness. She had one job. One simple job. Get a kid. And she had failed. She had two at least two official husbands and Kerong knows how many lovers during the past decades. But she could produce no heir. And now heir lands and the lands of her former husband were perched precariously, ready to fall apart at the first sign of her bad health. Her current husband seemed fine with it. Well, seemed in the past tense. Finding out that he or his offspring wouldn't manage to inherit the lands without an heir out of her had soured things. Was she sterile? Did she take some vow of chastity for her dieties? None could be sure, though the jokes about being in good with everyone but the dieties of childbirth and fertility were always spread about. There were prophecies, of course, requiring she have children and grand children before her so-and-so year, but as a similar prophecy had made for her first husband had came to nothing, it wasn't given much though. The Gods played many games with mortals, but they were known to have bluffed in the past. So why shouldn't it still be fulfilled? Gods can cheat.