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Noble Blood

More Blood Than You Can Drink

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.813.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Cyrus the Great of Persia wanted to conquer the Massengetae people and, through cunning, he killed the son of their warrior-queen, Tomyris. It was a bad move.

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0:00.0

Imagine you're scrolling through TikTok. You come across a video of a teenage girl and then a photo of the person suspected of killing her.

0:08.1

It was shocking. It was very shocking. Like that could have been my daughter. Like you never know.

0:12.6

I'm Jen Swan. I'm the host of a new podcast called My Friend Daisy. It's the story of how and why a group of teenagers turn to social media to help track down their friends' killer.

0:23.5

Listen to my friend Daisy on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.3

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

0:36.7

Listener discretion advised.

0:40.8

Imagine an ancient battlefield littered with the carnage of the aftermath of a great battle.

0:47.5

One side has emerged as victorious and now the slow, arduous task of inventorying the corpses has begun.

0:55.9

Time for the victors to take stock of what has been lost and what has been gained.

1:01.9

But there's something unusual in this scene, a woman walking among the bodies.

1:08.9

Judging by the way the survivors defer to her, it's pretty obvious that

1:14.3

she's their ruler, a warrior queen. In her hand, she clutches a bag, a simple wine skin made of

1:23.0

leathered animal hide. At first glance, you might think she's brought libations to toast her army's

1:29.7

victory, but you would be very wrong. In the bag is a severed head, and it's not the head of some

1:39.1

random soldier. This head belonged to her sworn enemy, who also happened to be the most powerful man in that part of the world.

1:49.3

That head, which once devised brilliant strategies and conquered dynasties, was now reduced to sloshing around in a bag filled with the blood of his fellow fallen soldiers.

2:02.6

If you're a little tired of before he cheats as a female rage anthem,

2:08.2

I will direct you toward another innovator in the field of revenge.

2:13.4

This is the story of Tumiris, the warrior queen who brought down an empire builder,

2:19.3

who avenged her son's death and who made sure her enemy got exactly what she promised.

2:26.9

It's also one of history's most spectacular examples of messing with the wrong woman.

2:37.4

I'm Dana Schwartz, and this is Noble Blood.

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