You wake in a strange room.

Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world.

You don't know where or when you are.

Or if you're still dreaming.

There are footsteps in the hall.

Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets.

You have just entered The Twilight Histories.

Hi, I'm Jordan Harbor.

Thank you for listening to The Twilight Histories.

This podcast is inspired by role-playing games and books where you are the hero.

The storyteller is your game master, leading you through adventures to strange and exotic worlds in the multiverse.

In today's show, you'll find yourself in the mountains of Persia, where you'll discover

great monuments and strange religions never witnessed in our universe.

This is The Ascent to Kasbeck by Kevin Valbenese.

Enjoy. There are some truly ancient parts of the world.

One only needs to look at the great river valleys to find where the oldest stones have

been laid.

The antiquity of these places is almost terrifying, and their mysteries are, even now,

more captivating than the farthest reaches of space, if you ask me.

The lands, once known as Persia, are such an elder realm.

While one might say that civilization was pioneered in Mesopotamia,

empire was perfected on the Iranian plateau.

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