Khosrow II

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Khosrow II is the Shah of Sassanid Empire who managed to launch a large and last offensive into Roman Territories in 602 that ended with his death in 628. He was created by Khosrow and Satan to get the dark side win the millennium-long war the Romans and marked the darkest time for the Byzantine Empire.

## In "Unbiased History"

### Byzantium III - Madness and Devils

After Khosrow's defeat at the last years of his reign despite capturing Dara, be then made a deal with Satan to create a being made with all the dark magic and essence of previous Shahs. He would be known as Khosrow II, who appeared before Comentiolus to strike a deal to put him back on the throne in exchange for Dara, Matyrpolis, and Armenia. Though Bahram--the usurper who took over the throne by murdering his father Hormizd IV--made a better counter offer by including Nisibis, Khosrow II used his dark magic to influence Maurice to accept Khosrow II while restraining Comentiolus after he discover his truth. He was also instrumental in deposing Maurice by influencing Phocas, whose purges along with his inept rule made an opening to launch an invasion in 602,with the aid of Satan.

### Byzantium IV - The Byzantine - Sassanid War

Khosrow now that the usurpation by ph\*cas had been successful began his invasion by capturing Dara and destroying its walls to the ground, then using his demonic powers he summoned the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse Rahzadh to protect inner Persia, Shahraplakan to support the others christians, Shahin to kill as many Romans as possible and finally Shahrvaraz to destroy all vestiges of pagan christianity.
Later Khosrow captured a random roman citizen and forced him to pretend to be Maurice's dead son Theodosius to trick cities to surrendering and being destroyed in the process and ordered Shahin to show what awaited the romans.
Khosrow later heard of ph\*cas's death after Heracliuscaca sent him a letter, now the excuse of revenge was no longer an option and Khosrow smiled knowing that meant a full on war.
Khosrow then mind controlled Priscus to the point not even bishops could stop it as Priscus sucumbed to Khosrow's control and died of old age, meanwhile Khosrow was delighted as Shahrvaraz had reached Jerusalem and sacked it taking the true cross, while the war was going horrible for the romans Heraclius sent an envassy to talk to Khosrow, but Khosrow simply captured it and left them to die in a sacrifice as for him negotiations were never an option, later Shahrvaraz captured egypt which made Khosrow write a letter to Heraclius which wrote:
"Khosrow, greatest of gods and, master of the earth, to Heraclius, his vile and insensate slave. You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Ceasarea, Jerusalem and Alexandria? And shall i not also destroy Constantinople? Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not able to save himself from the jews. Even if you take refuge, I will take you"
However this turned out to be a mistake as it made Heraclius more determined that ever to defeat the Sassanids and drive them out by learning from the Strategikon and directly invading Persia itself, reaching Ganzak where Khosrow himself was defending it but shockingly he was defeated, and the power source to his demonic powers was destroyed, Khosrow was mad that the war was now turning against him, he ordered all the horsemen to attack at the same time except for Rahzadh, after Heraclius kept making a fool out of Shahrvaraz and Shahin Khosrow will give him most of his legions to Shahrvaraz and summoning with what remained of his powers a new horde for Shahin and contacting the Avars to conquer Constantinople. The siege ended up being a complete Roman Victory And after Shahin got completely destroyed by Heraclius and killed himself out of shame, and Shahraplakan's failure to defend the caucasus made Khosrow grow more insane, whipping Shahin's body to unrecognizability and ordered Shahrvaraz's execution after he failed the siege only for the letter to get intercepted by the romans and given to Shahrvaraz who after reading it was free of Khosrow's control and revolted, after this Heraclius and Rahzadh had a encounter and a final battle at Niveneh which ended as a Roman Victory with this Khosrow went completely insane, burning the bridges to Ctesiphon and murdering his least loyal son Shoreo, but due to his power growing weaker the soldiers broke free of his mind control and then assassinated him, with his son Kavad II proclaimed as the new king and the Sassanian civil war beggining

## "Trivia"

* In reality, Khosrow II and Maurice held a strong friendship along with lack of any connections to Phocas.
	+ Purportedly, he was also married to Maria--Maurice's daughter--though this may have been confusion of a concubine named Maria with the one from Maurice's family.
	+ Furthermore, Khosrow II travelled to Constantinople to seek aid from Maurice.
* Khosrow II would be mythicized by post-Islamic Persians through many works, especially *Khosrow and Shirin* as a fictional account of his romance and the national epic of *Shahnameh.*
* Khosrow II may had also contributed to the rise of Islam through the invasion and abolition of the Lakhmid Dynasty as it not only denied Persia a buffer state, but it also severed an already-tense relations with Arabic people.
* Khosrow II would be last Shah to have a long reign as the unrest against him would lead to a civil war that led to his death along with the succession crisis that would see the collapse of the Sassanid empire.
* Furthermore, he was the Shah of Persia in Quran, where Muhammad sent a message to him along with Heraclius,stating *"A pitiful slave among my* ,*subjects dares write his name before mine"*,this information is probably written as a way for Islam to establish his autority on the Zoroastrian tradition
* Khosrow II was an appreciator of music and helped to develop it
* His actual name was Husraw meaning "He who have good fame" Khosrow being a deformation of his greek name .