[Xietor]

The small empire of Pythium, half the size of its neighbors,
has cast GOH as a purely benign gesture to alleviate the suffering of the elderly in our empire.

A glance at the score graphs show most of nations controlled by players own twice the provinces of Pythium. Since we are a peaceful nation of scholars, our borders tend to remain small.

Last turn a genie named Al KHazim entered service to Pythium. We realize that such service is temporary, but we ask as a gesture of goodwill that any nation that seeks to summon the genie have the courtesy of contacting Pythium first. Pythium rewards kindness, and punishes treachery.

Pythium will also report that constr 8 has been reached by at least 3 nations. Pythium was not the 1st, and Pythium does not have the Forge Hammer, the Chalice, the Dark Scepter, the Soulstone, or about 25 other artifacts-but someone does.

This information is a public service to save others from wasted research. Pythium-a name you trust.

Lightning and Wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Helena is your goddess, and she lives in the Earth. Does Vanheim worship a true god of the Earth, or one who comes from the heavens?

Over such matters wars will be fought and kingdoms torn asunder.