Friday 1 November 2019

On The Black Sea

The Golden Slave, XV, the opening paragraph.

This image clearly shows the geographical relationships between the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black Seas. Our characters are now on the Black Sea. Eodan, regaining the intiative, has persuaded their captor, Arpad, to treat him and his companions not as recaptured slaves but as honored guests at least until they have been presented to King Mithradates ("Gift of Mithras") but what is the message that Eodan claims to bear for a king?

They see:

the Caucasus
Sinope, halfway between Byzantium and Colchis

More on this later.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Amd Eodan would have needed to have been VERY persuasive to convince a wary and skeptical Arpad to be so lenient to three ragamuffin castaways of dubious antecedents as Eodan, Phryne, and Tjorr!

Ad astra! Sean