Total War: Pharaoh - Bay & Irsu, Rulers of Foreign Lands

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Pretender and the Herald of the Collapse. The Chancellor BAY is a fascinating figure. Although an outsider, he politicked his way to supreme authority. IRSU, meanwhile, is a shadowy man, known only from tiny fragments. Following their methods you may craft a new path to power, or precipitate the collapse of civilizations. Choose your role, and their fate, in Total War: Pharaoh... Preview and purchase Total War: Pharaoh at https://pharaoh.totalwar.com/. Music in all episodes by Richard Beddow © Creative Assembly 2023. See the History of Egypt Podcast on all podcasting apps and at www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Select references: A. Dodson, Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty (2016). H. Goedicke, ‘“Irsu, The Kharu” in Papyrus Harris’, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 71 (1979), 1—17. R. W. Hopper, ‘The Monuments of Amenmesse and Seti II: A Historical Inquiry’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, The University of Memphis (2010). K. L. Johnson and P. J. Brand, ‘Prince Seti-Merneptah, Chancellor Bay and the Bark Shrine of Seti II at Karnak’, Journal of Egyptian History 6 (2013), 19—45. K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations Volume IV: Merenptah & The Late Nineteenth Dynasty (2003). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6	For the children of a ravaged land, one may think of revenge.
0:39.0	Welcome to the History of Egypt Podcast and Total War Pharaoh. Today we introduce two more of
0:45.8	the game's major leaders. The Lords of Canaan and Syria named Bai and Irsu. They are fascinating historical characters. One a schema and manipulator who
0:58.9	politiced his way to ultimate power. The other a ravager who plundered, destroyed, and sacked any who
1:06.6	got in his way. These lords are intriguing figures indeed. Let's meet them. The Chancellor, Bai and the Ravager, Erasu, both take up command in the lands of Syria and Canaan.
1:26.6	This region historically has been at the mercy of great imperial powers
1:32.2	and around 1200 b.C.E. those conflicts were only growing.
1:37.9	As a ruler in Canaan, you must deal with the Great Empires, Hathi to the north and Egypt to the south.
1:46.0	The Hittites have been a particular thorn in recent history, conquering cities like Karchemish
1:51.2	and Uyghurit, and the Egyptians have caused great trouble in the south,
1:55.0	particularly in the Fancu lands, modern day Lebanon.
1:59.0	They had conquered Beblos or Gubla,
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