Teyrna III

Introduction of the Aigaid envoy and beginnings of their dialogue.  This is from the Alexander mosaic from Pompeii, and the diplomat is dressed differently, but I couldn't find any other classical representations of a Hellenistic general or one similarly dressed after five minutes of looking.  So there.

They all wore a tunic, but they didn't wear truis or bracchae, any sort of pants, underneath. In addition, they didn't wear boots, but instead sandals. Teyrna had heard that the land from which they came had no snow, and neither did it rain often, so she supposed that there was no great need for enclosed shoes. They all wore cuirasses of bronze which seemed to mimic the human body, and that of a man who was definitely in shape. She supposed once more than it wouldn't be very intimidating to have the bronze chest of a man who was skinny or flabby. In addition, they all wore cloaks, the lead man wearing purple, and the back two wearing yellow with a purple band near the bottom. They all wore puny swords at their belt, and the one in the front wore a red sash tied around his midsection. An indication of his rank? But what a silly way to display it.

They approached the platform but wisely chose to stop before they got too close to the Solduros, who probably would not have taken kindly to armed foreigners approaching too closely to their lord. The man in the front, the one with the red sash, began to speak with arms raised, but in an odd accent, more akin to those along the coast, across the mountains. He spake thus, “Wise Brennus, I am an Apostolos, an envoy, by the name of Euphemios Agyros, travelling great and far at the behest of the virile and powerful Archon Alexandros Eukleides of Arche Aigaios. He sends his warmest regard.”

Cadeyrn at first chuckled a little bit, perhaps not the immediate response that the envoy would have wished to receive. He sat down in the chair that was right behind him, putting him close enough that Teyrna could place her hand upon his shoulder. It made her feel better just to be able to touch him, and she was sure that her touch reassured him in this moment which was surely tense, even if not for that he was meeting with a foreign envoy, but that he did not address him by the proper title. She wasn't sure if this was an intentional slight or if the diplomat was merely ignorant, and thus not very… diplomatic.

Cadeyrn grinned and gestured dismissively as he responded, “Welcome, envoy of Arche Aigaios. You should know, Brennus means king. Tell me, what is your business here? Why have you traveled so far to come and address me and my people?”