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Premier Body Armour, and by our supporters at Patreon.com. The So, The near the time of Hesiod and Homer, a Grecian king by the name of Bisas set sail from his home in Magara, headed north and east.

The original purpose of his journey is lost to us now, but what came of it, mostly by accident,

has proved to be of indefatigable importance for the West.

Perez Bizus drifted by the wind across the Aegean towards the old shores of Troy.

He decided to navigate the narrow clefts of the Helespont and pass into the sea of Marmara,

further east than many of the most powerful Greek kings before him had ever been.

There of course he found more water waiting for him to tread, and so he did.

The decorated prowls of his fleet drove into the mass of water beneath him and

before him for countless more hours until passing the deepest soundings they had taken.

They caught first sight of yet another inlet, one whose port city they would find, a city great and terrible, rife with blood and glory.

There, kissed by the salty breeze coming through the Bosphorus from the northern Black Sea,

and to the shouts of seagulls dancing overhead, King Bizus of Magara laid the foundations of his crowning achievement.

The city that would bear his name forever,

Byzantium.

As generations of kings rose and fell,

traveling and conquering and exploring

further and further across the fringe of the known world.

Byzantium matured into a center of trade and port that was a friend to all.

The curious deckhands from Roos would meet in Byzantium with Arab traders and Greek naval fleets

only to find that while they sat happy in the idyllic weather of the Dark Horse City,

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