Gaztons the Commander

Gaztons the Commander (otherwise known as Basileus of Macedon Cassandros Gaztonos) is an /int/ newfag that started out his journey as a member of Krippogang long ago and joined Epoch i2 with Spookygang as a co-leader of the Kingdom of Macedon along with SpookyBones or Basileuos Alexandros Spouki.

## The Bronze Age

During the Bronze Age iteration Gaztons did absolutely nothing as he was burnt out from the shitshow that was AoW 4 and also was busy. Logged in once and joined Egypt but never touched the server again.

## The Hellenistic Age

Gaztons joined the server amid the Spooky pre-ban drama where he advocated and vouched for spooky before the gods of the Hellenistic Age (jannies). Following that ordeal he set out to assemble the Macedonian armies for his planned reconquest of Alexander's old empire. As regent of Macedon in peace time and pre-launch Gaztons carefully selected strategic locations for the future towns that would comprise the kingdom and recruited myriads of aspiring hoplites to feed the Macedonian war machine. He commissioned several grand works from the great architects and engineers of Greece, notably NetworkGarage, TheFlyingEmperor, Aerbis and Resurructi which were all planned in painstaking detail in private creative servers pre-launch. Sadly due to the general retardation and schizoness Macedon would drown in during the actual server most of these grandiose designs would never reach completion. His pride and joy, the rebuilding of Phillip II's great palace in Pella the Macedonian capital, a project under the oversight of NetworkGarage would never see the light of day. Below are some scrolls depicting it in its full glory.

After setting the foundations of the kingdom and ensuring work on all the towns was proceeding in accordance with royal decree, Gaztons stepped down from actively ruling Macedon, logging on for the occasional even, memeraid or to defend the capital Pella from seleucid thieves and brigands. He would mostly lurk on the various discord servers and the main server shitposting and jesting about. Assuming mostly the role of diplomat and explorer, he temporarily surrendered leadership to Archon Matt. In his travels Gaztons established diplomatic ties with Dacia, Persia, Armenia, Pontus, Gaul and Carthage all of which joined the Macedon headed coalition against the rising Roman Republic. In this period of downtime he also invited a descendant of the rulers of old Troy, PhantomGuy to settle Athens as a vassal under Macedon. As war drew closer Gaztons returned to Epoch on a more active basis and upon realizing the sorry state of the kingdom wept. Byzantion had barely even been touched by its head builder Aerbis, while Pella was an incomprehensible pile of rock and marble which was only slowly coming to resemble the grand palace he had envisioned. Athens was practically a crater and Amphipolis though crucial to resource production was just an ugly ass castle. Dion and Passaron though beautiful and comfy did not exactly embody imperial grandure. Seeing as his plans for a cultured and sophisticated Empire had given way to his co-rulers bloodthirst and fixation on destroying Rome Gaztons begun to descend to the depths of madness and despair. So great was his disgust at the decay of Macedon that he allowed several Romans and head janny UhFiliate (Philly Bonger) to visit Pella and meme on Spooky while he was afk in the underground mushroom farm. During their visit to Greece Gaztons toured the Romans around his homeland and kingdom in a self deprecating display of his countrymen's ineptitude at larping and buildfagging. Given his close ties from ages past to several Roman players such as FloodsMonitor, Gaztons found all this trolling quite funny.

## Macedonian War

Gaztons could not be bothered too much and barely logged on during the war. Partially infuriated at how the coalition he had built would not be allowed to support Macedon by divine decree and would instead be locked down in individual wars across the world Gaztons decided to call it a day. Though he did make sure that everything was in order the day before war and conversed with his co-ruler SpookyBone and their two Archons, GoaBoa and Matt on war planning. It was clear to Cassandros that the loss of several god sets in unnecessary meme raids would likely be detrimental to the war effort so he just distanced himself from the conflict and made a sacrifice to Zeus in Delphi in the hopes of Olympian intervention against the Latins. No such help would arrive.

## Post-War

In just 1 day the kingdom Gaztons had been building for weeks had been beaten into submission and shame by the rising eagle of Rome. Basileus Alexandros Spouki had fallen during the final Roman push on Pella and Macedonians were fleeing Greece in droves settling in far off lands abandoning their ancestral birthright. Greatly saddened by this exodus Gaztons allied Rome and attempted to establish a reconstruction program to rebuild and perhaps improve Macedon. It was all in vain however. With Macedon's towns practically empty of players and in some cases defecting to other nations outright Basileus Cassandros Gaztonos abdicated the throne and joined Rome for the remainder of the iteration, barely being active.

## Resting Place and Cult

The current whereabouts of Gaztons is unknown, the Blockgame Gods have banished him from the mortal plane, however some bacchanalist cultists have claimed to have seen the Macedonian and have communicated with him from beyond the bounds of the world. This "Interference" as the cultists have called it have spawned a new cult in the world of Epoch: Jocoseanism. Centered around the worship of the "Jack of Clubs" "Lanselos" or simply the "Jester" and his foretold "Feast of the Fools".