Sorry, I need to shout for a moment...

[yakalskovich]

DIOSKURIAS!!!!!!!

(from the point of view of Atei and Toli...)


SEBASTOPOLIS!!!!!!!

(from the point of view of either Teja, either Totila, and Artabanes)


SUKHUMI!!!!!!!

(from the point of view of everybody else)

Sorry, just needed to say the name out loud. I don't like to be forbidden to say a name. like 'Jehovah' in 'Life Of Brian'. It makes me ornery, and I get loud.-

Comments

Huh???

[carolinw.livejournal.com]

What exactly is this about? *grin* Just recognized good old Artabanes and had to ask....

[yakalskovich]

Basically, it's about a place which he would have known about -- a strategic fort that changed hands twice during Justinian's endless Persian war (see second paragraph of the 'history' section of the Wikipedia article I link). I read that history when I looked it up for the current connotation (see other two links), and thought, 'Wow, people from Sal's WIP would have known the place, and, come to think of it, somebody from Carolin's WIP might have, too -- and the Gothic leaders would have known about it, following the news from the Persian front. Only, for any of them, the name wasn't Sukhumi yet.'

Hence, the post with the names...