Arcane Legions

The Greek hoplite knows that his nation introduced the power of discipline into warfare: he knows that the hoplite was the first true soldier, beyond just a warrior; the professional armies of the world have mimicked him because of that quality. This knowledge gives the Greek infantryman a solid core of pride in his service and abilities, a pride that even the service they’re now forced to bear cannot overcome. The Greek phalanx was the first formation to defeat hordes of barbarian enemies, and although the Romans may have copied the formation and improved it, the Greek facility with spear and shield cannot be matched.

Greece is allied with Marc Antony and the Egyptians against Octavian’s Roman Empire, but the alliance is one of common goals rather than allegiance. The Egyptian armies of undead are disquieting to the philosophical Greeks, abominations from a black magic that has no place in their ordered world. If not for the fact that the Empire of Octavian is a worse evil, the Greeks would have nothing to do with the Egyptians. Antony uses the Greeks of his armies to counterbalance Cleopatra’s undead, but the two forces are hardly matched. The living, of course, fear death … but the dead are already dead. They fear nothing but failure in the face of their masters, and the wrath of their queen Cleopatra. The Night of Mists has changed Greeks’ views on many matters, but not about the nature of death.