This is Calista. She is a Greek critter by blood, and was born in a Greek military colony in Persepolis in 215BC. As expected of the children of Greek colonists, she trained vigorously for war in between her farming duties. By the time of her young adulthood in the late 190s BC, she had enrolled in the Peltastai Makedones corps - the elite assault infantry of the Seleucid Empire. As for her equipment, although she retains the Pelte shield and bronze greaves of classical Peltastai Makedones, she has adopted armament from a foreign republic of imperialistic assholes called the Romans. It was through a shady Rhodian arms dealer that her Greek Akon javelins were replaced by Roman heavy Pila, her Greek linothorax by Roman chainmail (though the shoulder straps and skirt retained their Greek material), and her Thracian helmet by the Roman Montefortino one. Calista still keeps her armor-piercing Kopis sword and her trusty Pelte shield, though.
Fateful coincidence, too, that Calista has decided to adopt some Roman panoply, for the kingdom she serves - the Seleucid Empire - has recently come to butt heads with the Romans. It is 193BC, the Romans are crawling all over mainland Greece, they are demanding that King Antiochus III hand over Osama Bin Laden - I mean Hannibal Barca, and Seleucid troops are being mobilized across the empire - Calista herself included. She - and the hundreds of thousands of critters around the eastern Mediterranean - hold their breathes as the international crisis worsens.
Fateful coincidence, too, that Calista has decided to adopt some Roman panoply, for the kingdom she serves - the Seleucid Empire - has recently come to butt heads with the Romans. It is 193BC, the Romans are crawling all over mainland Greece, they are demanding that King Antiochus III hand over Osama Bin Laden - I mean Hannibal Barca, and Seleucid troops are being mobilized across the empire - Calista herself included. She - and the hundreds of thousands of critters around the eastern Mediterranean - hold their breathes as the international crisis worsens.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
Species Mammal (Other)
Gender Female
Size 905 x 1280px
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