While we wait for the next season of game of thrones... we can talk about about the real stuff.
I have spent my two weeks off being a massive nerd and randomly reading wikipedia articles.
Do you know who Temur was?... he was a real person with various forms of his name, know in europe as Tamerlane. He was ironically a leader of a mongol horde (normally accoiated with mardu) who through political minevurings and many successful battles made himself the ruler of an empire. He was not a decendant of Gengis khan as were most horde leaders so he could never call himself Khan. He was also a mulsum general (Despite being the ruler of a muslum empire couldn't call himself Caliph as he was not from the tribal of Muhummod) he converted mongols to islam which is why central asia is muslum (the stans). His army/horde was of many different ethnic groups.
He conqurered turkey to the west and pakistan/china boarder to the east south to the persian gulf and baghdad and north to crimea (where he ran into and defeated the major mongol horde, the golden horde. Europe saw him as a Enemy of my enemy as he defeated ottoman sultans that were seiging constantanople and taking land in the bulkans.
Still considered the national hero of Uzbeistan
such awful spelling. I love learning on wikipedia.
This might belong better in the storyline forum. I created a thread there a while back about the real-life influences of the Khans block, although the history is certainly interesting. For instance, the Demons in Khans are based on Hindu Mythology and iconography.
While we wait for the next season of game of thrones... we can talk about about the real stuff.
I have spent my two weeks off being a massive nerd and randomly reading wikipedia articles.
Do you know who Temur was?... he was a real person with various forms of his name, know in europe as Tamerlane. He was ironically a leader of a mongol horde (normally accoiated with mardu) who through political minevurings and many successful battles made himself the ruler of an empire. He was not a decendant of Gengis khan as were most horde leaders so he could never call himself Khan. He was also a mulsum general (Despite being the ruler of a muslum empire couldn't call himself Caliph as he was not from the tribal of Muhummod) he converted mongols to islam which is why central asia is muslum (the stans). His army/horde was of many different ethnic groups.
He conqurered turkey to the west and pakistan/china boarder to the east south to the persian gulf and baghdad and north to crimea (where he ran into and defeated the major mongol horde, the golden horde. Europe saw him as a Enemy of my enemy as he defeated ottoman sultans that were seiging constantanople and taking land in the bulkans.
Still considered the national hero of Uzbeistan
such awful spelling. I love learning on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
sometimes they might even convince someone to look at a thread he might otherwise not have, and post a technically on-topic though unrelated post
I'll get you next time, Feathas
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