Posts tagged “early modern period”

  1. Aries: It's a classic Aries move to die in the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. Aries are independent, sometimes moody, generous, and incapable of surviving the onslaught of Sultan Mehmed II's army once they cross the north side of the Golden Horn. Whether you're a soldier in Mehmed's service or a terrified member of the Byzantine royal family cowering in the city's crumbling defenses, there's no way you're making it out of the siege alive. Taurus:…

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