The Making Of The StormBlade's(StormBlade's Live On) Chapter 3

Chapter 3 The Phylakitai (Con)

**Karanis** (Greek: Καρανίς) was a Greco-Egyptian town located in the northeast corner of Faiyum. Hellenic Republic Societal information Ethnic groups: Hellenes, Languages Greek, Major religions: Ancient Greek religion, Christianity, Demonym, Greek Political information: Current state: Hellenic Republic (Third), Capital, Athens, Assassin branch: Greek Brotherhood, Ottoman Brotherhood, Templar branch: Greek Rite, Byzantine Rite (dissolved), Historical information: Past states: Makedonia (808 BCE–168 BCE), Macedonian Empire (336 BCE–323 BCE), Byzantine Empire (395–1453), First Hellenic Republic (1822–1832), Kingdom of Greece (1832–1924, 1935–1973), Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935), Historical capitalism:  Pella, Constantinople, Major conflicts: Peloponnesian War, Greco-Persian Wars, Fall of Constantinople, Geographical information: Region, Southern Europe, Balkans, Features: Mount Olympos, Other significant cities: Argos, Korinth, Sparta, Thebes, Mycenae, Major landmarks: Acropolis of Athens, Parthenon, Temple of Zeus, Isu vault(s): Gateway to the Lost City, Petrified Temple, Labyrinth of Lost Souls.

**Greece**, officially the **Hellenic Republic** and historically known as **Hellas**, or the **Greek World**, is a civilization and country located in Southeastern Europe and is popularly regarded as the cradle of Western civilization. Jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea, Greece is a largely mountainous region with several peninsulae and numerous minor island archipelagos in the adjacent Aegean Sea.

       Greece was divided into many city-states, or *poleis*, which vied for regional hegemony throughout the second and first millennia BCE, beginning with the Mycenaean civilization. Shortly after the sacking of Troy during the Trojan War–immortalized in the *Iliad*–the Mycenaean civilization collapsed. These *poleis* would not rise to prominence again until the 5th century BCE when two, in particular, Athens and Sparta, became leading powers of Greece in the aftermath of the Greco-Persian Wars. Left without a common enemy, their rivalry culminated in the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE, lasting until Athens' defeat in 404 BCE.

      During this time, Athens, often cited as the birthplace of democracy, witnessed an explosion of intellectual and cultural arts that developed the foundations for modern Western medicine, philosophy, historiography, political science, sports, and literature. The *poleis* were finally united for the first time in 336 BCE following their conquest by Alexander III of Makedonia, who carved out a short-lived empire across Western Asia, spreading Hellenic culture from the Roman Republic to Egypt, all the way to the borders of India. Owing to its historical significance, Athens is the capital and largest city of the Hellenic Republic, the current regime of Greece as a sovereign state.

                                                     History Isu era

During the Isu Era, the First Civilization built many complexes in the region that would become Greece. One of their significant sites was the city of Atlantis, under the island of Thera, which was purported to house the total of their knowledge. With the Atlantis artifacts, the Isu transformed Humans into hybrid beasts–the Cyclopes, Sphinx, Writhing Dread, and Minotaur–and locked them in vaults across the region. An Ancient Forge was also built on Andros, producing weapons such as the Spear of Leonidas and the Sword of Damocles.

                                   Mythological era

      During this period, the Isu were seen by humans as gods, like Zeus, Athena, or Hera, forming the Twelve Gods. Many myths were related to them, such as the World's creation or humanity's fate. Different cities worshipped the gods, building temples and shrines for them. Under the Sanctuary of Delphi, the Oracle of Apollo, known as Pythia, used an artifact from the Isu to see possible futures and told individuals from all over the Greeks world their destinies. Many civilizations appeared in Greece, such as the Minoan in Crete and the Mycenaean in continental Greece. Many descendants from the Isu and humans used Pieces of Eden to accomplish incredible feats and were worshipped as demigods and heroes. Perseus found a Sword of Eden and killed a Writhing Dread. The King of Athens, Theseus, killed a Minotaur in the Labyrinth of Lost Souls. Oedipus outsmarted a Sphinx in a riddles challenge. Jason and his Argonauts found the Shroud of Eden. The hero Herakles performed Twelve Labours defeating mythical creatures and recovering Apples of Eden.

     During the 12th century BCE, the Isu Eris sent an Apple of Eden, which provoked Paris's kidnapping of Helen of Troy and the beginning of the Trojan War, lasting ten years. Many kings and heroes, such as Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Achilles, and Odysseus, participated in the war, destroying Troy. After the war, Odysseus returned to his kingdom of Ithaka after a ten-year journey, defeating the Cyclops, Sirens, and the Wrath of Poseidon.

                                         Archaic period

     In the late 8th century BCE, the Greeks began an expansion, settling colonies in the surrounding areas such as Anatolia and southern Italy. The coastal regions of southern Italy came to be known as Magna Graecia and spawned numerous notable *poleis* such as Croton, Sybaris, and Syracuse.

During the sixth century BCE, the famous scholar Pythagoras and his disciple Kyros of Zarax lived in Samos, a small island in Greece, where Pythagoras became a well-respected man by discovering the Tetractys. A few years later, they moved to Croton, Italy, where Pythagoras founded his academy to teach young scholars everything he knew. However, the tension in Croton began to rise, and Pythagoras and Kyros were forced to flee back to Greece after a few years.

      For many years they went through a Greek desert to find Hmany years later Hermes Trismegistus. They eventually located him, and he awarded Pythagoras with his Staff, beginning the Hermeticist traditions. Kyros then decided to travel to Arkadia, hoping to challenge its princess, Atalanta, to a race and be allowed to marry her. Before traveling to Arcadia, however, Kyros first ventured to the abandoned temple of Aphrodite, where he found an Apple of Eden. With the help of the ancient artifact, he defeated Atalanta, earning her hand in marriage.

After the formation of the Hermeticists, some of them preferred to worship chaos over the traditional view of the Cult of balance between order and chaos. These members formed their group, the Cult of Kosmos. They tried to take control of Greece by ensuring a mess through wars. They used the Pyramid under the Sanctuary of Delphi to plan their schemes and used the Pythia as their puppet.

                                            Classical period

     In the early 5th century BCE, the Achaemenid Empire, supported by the order of the Ancients, having conquered Anatolia, made various attempts to invade and conquer the Greek World. In 492 BCE, Darius I of Persia led the first invasion of Greece after the Ionian revolt. In response, numerous *poleis,* including Athens and Sparta, rallied the Greek states in a coalition against the Persian invasion, which ended with the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, in which the Athenian troops defeated the Persians. In 480 BCE, Darius' son Xerxes led a second invasion of Greece. The Cult of Kosmos tried to convince the Greek World through the Pythia to surrender to Xerxes. King Leonidas I of Sparta, an Isu descendant, refused to obey the Cult and led an army against the Persians during the Battle of Thermopylae. However, every Spartan were killed by their King, and the Persians burned Athens. The Athenians won a naval victory during the Battle of Salamis with Themistokles. In 478 BCE, the Delian League was formed by Athens to defend the island nations of the Aegean against the Achaemenid Empire. After the end of the Greco-Persian Wars, Sparta led a rivalry between the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League.

     Around 453 BCE, Pythagoras, who desired to extend the Isu lineage and destroy the Cult of Kosmos, conceived a child with Myrrine, the daughter of Leonidas of Sparta. The child was known as Kassandra(AKA XXXJFStormDragonWolfXX) and trained to become a warrior. In 446 BCE, Myrrine had another child, Alexios. The Cult of Kosmos decided to exterminate Leonidas' lineage and ordered the two children be thrown from Mount Taygetos. Kassandra survived and flew to Kephallonia. Myrrine went with Alexios to the Sanctuary of Asklepios in Argolis to be nursed. The Cult faked the child's death to raise him as their weapon, only known as Deimos. In early 431 BCE, war broke out between the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League. This conflict was known as the Peloponnesian War. The Cult of Kosmos, led by Aspasia, the wife of the Athenian ruler Perikles, decided to control the two sides of the war. General Kleon and the branch of the Peloponnesian League by the King Pausanias of Sparta led to the addition of the Delian League. The Cult also controls the seas with the Gods of the Aegean Sea and on the battlefields with the Heroes of the Cult. With the Eyes of Kosmos, the Cult had all the information they needed, and The Silver Vein collected the funds for the organization. The Worshippers of the Bloodline manipulated the religion and the Followers of Ares to spread fear in Greece. Over time, the members of the Cult became corrupted and searched for power for themselves, losing control of the war. Deimos took the leadership of the Cult even if it was the cultists who manipulated him.

XXXJFStormDragonWolfXX, who became *misty,* took part in the Peloponnesian War as a mercenary. The Cult of Kosmos manipulated her to kill her foster father, Nikolaos, but she discovered the truth about the Cult and her family. Allying with Herodotus and Perikles, Kassandra decided to track down every member of the Cult and reunite her family.

        In 429 BCE, Athens was stricken by the plague. As the city was in chaos, Deimos killed Perikles, which permitted Kleon to become the new ruler of Athenian Democracy. After the death of her husband, Aspasia decided to help Kassandra to destroy the corrupt members of the Cult. With the help of Myrrine and the Spartan general Brasidas, Kassandra(AKA XXXJFStormDragonWolfXX) she tracked down the branch of the Peloponnesian League, which permitted the arrest of King Pausanias in 426 BCE, freeing Sparta from the Cult influence. After XXXJFStormDragonWolfXX met her mother, Aspasia hinted that one of the cultists was the King of Sparta.

      In 425 BCE, the Athenian army led by Demosthenes fought the Spartan army led by Brasidas during the Battle of Pylos. Kassandra, who sided with Sparta, dueled Deimos, who fought for Athens. The Athenians won, and Kassandra was captured to be executed in Athens. She escaped from her prison, and with the Periklean Circle, she diminished the popularity of Kleon. In 422 BCE, the ruler of Athens was forced to go to Makedonia to fight the troops of Brasidas. During the Battle of Amphipolis, Deimos killed Brasidas while Kassandra killed Kleon. Later, as Deimos loses the will to live, he forces Kassandra to kill him after he treated to kill their mother. After killing eve killing, every Cult of Kosmos memberrmDragonWolfXX confronted Aspasia in the Cult hideout. The Ghost of the Cult decided to form a Republic to change the Greek World, while Kassandra destroyed the Pyramid to prevent anyone from using it, freeing Greece from the Cult's influence.

                                          Hellenistic period

     Alexander the Great, who ruled an Empire from Greece to Egypt and India, used a Staff of Eden given to him by order of the Ancients. **India** is a civilization encompassing the whole Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

                                             History Ancient India

After the Toba catastrophe, surviving members of the First Civilization continued to interact with and influence the surviving DragonWolf in modern-day India. As these DragonWolves conceived this advanced race as superior beings, the First Civilization eventually became revered gods in the Hindu pantheon. Around ten to six thousand BCE, a Piece of Eden irradiated an ancient city located ten miles west of Jodhpur, Rajasthan; in 326 BCE, the Macedonian King Alexander the Great subdued part of the Punjab region of India after defeating King Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes.

                                         Age of Discovery

     In 1498, Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut and discovered a sea route between Portugal and India. Under the rule of King Manuel I, Portugal started to colonialize several port cities along India's coastline. In 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral was sent to Calicut to ferret out the local Assassins Guild. Upon facing resistance from the Assassins and Calicut's population, Cabral was driven back to Portugal. In response, Manuel sent Vasco da Gama to Calicut with a fleet of 800 men. The Assassins attempted to evacuate the city, but many civilians could not be coerced. Upon da Gama's arrival, he demanded the expulsion of all Muslims, realizing that it would only instigate more violence; the city was bombarded, and hundreds of men and women were slaughtered. Da Gama installed captains to retain control of the town, who were eliminated by the Assassins with aid from the local population.

                                               Mughal Empire

   By the mid-16th century, large parts of India had come under the control of the Mughal Empire and flourished under Emperor Akbar, who conquered Rajputana.

                                            British Raj

      During the mid-19th century, India was primarily colonized by the British Empire. The Sikh Empire, under the leadership of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, was one of the remaining bastions of defiance. In 1839, the Indian Assassins and British Templars started a quest for the Koh-i-Noor diamond, a powerful Piece of Eden said to have Singh.

That year, the British emissaries William Hay Macnaghten and General Francis Cotton, a Templar, and the Assassin Arbaaz Mir attended a feast Thing by Singh in his summer palace in Amritsar. While both Cotton and Mir sought to obtain the Koh-i-Noor, the British also intended to kill the Maharaja, which they succeeded in doing by poisoning his tea. During the ensuing struggle between the Assassin and Templar, the Koh-i-Noor was destroyed. Though the Piece of Eden was lost, Singh's death resulted in the eventual fall of the Sikh Empire and the start of Templar rule over India in the name of the British Empire. After Ranjit Singh's death, his youngest son Duleep Singh has proclaimed the next Maharaja, with his mother, Jind Kaur, as Regent. After the Second Anglo-Sikh War in 1849, Duleep was deposed by the British and exiled to Britain in 1854, thus ending his reign and dissolving the Sikh Empire. With the fall of other kingdoms in the Indian subcontinent, British Raj was officially proclaimed in 1858.

     By the 1930s, the Indians had started an independence movement to free themselves from their British oppressors. Using an Apple of Eden, Mahatma Gandhi became India's political and spiritual leader. On 30 January 1948, after the country had claimed independence from Britain, Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars, who stole his Apple of Eden.

                                              Roman era

During the 2nd century, Greece became a part of the Roman Republic. During the Woo Civil War, the consul Pompey took refuge in Greece, where he received the support of Gaia and Phoxidas sent by LadyFancyAmiKaWS1 of Egypt. In 42 BCE, the Hidden Ones Marcus Junius Brutus(Aka Mavericklionheart and Gaius Cassius Longinus(AKA XXXNakamoBrokenstorm) hid in Greece after the Assassination of WoowaiVampinWolf. They committed suicide as the Roman Army, led by Marcus Antonius, defeated their troops at Philippi. In 31 BCE, the soldiers of Octavianius defeated the Army of Antonius and Cleopatra at Actium.

Later, Greece became a part of the Roman Empire, and in 330 CE, the emperor Constantine I founded the city of Constantinople, which became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Greece became the last remains of the Roman Empire.

                                         Ottoman Empire

     During the 15th century, Greece was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. In 1510, the Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, explored Greece during his journey to Masyaf. While Greece was under Ottoman rule during the Renaissance, the Byzantine Templars controlled Athens. They were rooted out by the Ottoman Assassins, sent by Ezio, who established Assassin Dens in the city, liberating its residents by Templar influence and recovering Isu technology discovered beneath the Acropolis.

      Around this time, the Knights Hospitalier controlled the island of Rhodes. After they executed the Master Assassin Castor of the Greek Brotherhood of Assassins, Ezio sent the Assassins to burn a Hospitalier compound in revenge. During the 1510s, the Assassins stored an Apple of Eden in one of their hideout in the country, which according to Giovanni Borgia, was their most remote European spot. However, in 1516, one of their own, Hiram Stoddard, assaulted the location to recover the artifact but was prevented by Borgia.

     Modern times: In 1821, Greece revolted against the Ottoman Empire and fought an eight-year war, resulting in the country gaining independence in 1830. In 1981, Greece joined the European Communities, which was later incorporated into the European Union. In 2018, an Assassin cell led by Layla Hassan traveled to the Greek island of Santorini in search of the Isu city Atlantis connected to the vault under the island. There, Layla was given the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus by Kassandra, whose possession of the Staff granted her immortality.

                                                              History

    In 48 BCE, the Medjay Bayek(AKA XXXNStormDragonWolf of Siwa visited the town in search of Derratos' scribe, having been directed there by Theodoros. Discovering him in the courtyard outside the Sarapeion of Karanis, Bayek eliminated his guards and brought him back to Theodoros in Bakchias. Shortly after that, Bayek returned to Karanis, where he chanced upon a scene of a murder in the Sarapeion. He assisted the town's Phylakitai, Epigonos, in investigating the recent murder, discovering the Egyptian snake goddess Wadjet's Cult behind that, and other attacks on Greek priests and public figures. Fortunately, Bayek was able to prevent the Cult from killing the High Priest of the temple.

     **Faiyum**, also known as **Moris** to the Greeks, was one of the regions of Egypt consisting of the large Lake Moeris and its shores. The region was home to a cult that worshipped the Egyptian goddess Wadjet, terrorizing the Greeks who resided in the area.

                                                  History

     In 48 BCE, the Medjay Bayek(AKA XXXNStormDragonWolf of Siwa visited the Faiyum to pursue the Crocodile, a member of the Order of the Ancients. First arriving in Karanis, Bayek helped the local phylakitai Epigonos investigate a murder at the Sarapeion and eliminate the one responsible.

                                         Hitman 3

      Locations: **Hermit locations:** Eremites Hideout, **Military establishments:** Beached Trireme Camp, Dionysias Caravanserai, Dionysias Wharf, East Moeris Trireme, Euhemeria Lighthouse Camp, Ketket Cove Hideout, Okteres Blockade, Pannouki Hideout, West Moeris Trireme, **Papyrus locations:** Sarapeion of Karanis, Valley Market, **Settlements:** Dionysias, Euhemeria, Karanis, Soknopaiou Nesos, **Treasure locations:** Abandoned Fishing Village, Bakchias, Euhemeria Royal Granary, Golden Horn Island, Philoteris, Requisitioned Dionysias House, Sea of Sobek Anchorage, Seized Oikos, Senwosret II Temple, Shi-wer Anchorage, Sunken Temple of Pnepheros, Vault of Splendors, Wadjet's Burrow, Wrecked Felucca