The party chases the Conqueror through the Sacred Lands, which are revealed to be the birthplace of Remnants and confronts him.
Challenged to separate the strands of an impossible knot, the Gordion knot, the conqueror cut through the problem, in the manner of conquerors, with one authoritative swing of his sword.
Whiteness has its privileges, and among them is that your view of history is through that of the default, the conqueror, the triumphant.
As William the Conqueror advanced through England he fortified key positions to secure the land he had taken.
In 1067 William the Conqueror passed through the villa of Colitona on his way to besiege Exeter where Gytha was living.
Born into an aristocratic Roman family, Tiberius Sempronius was heir to a nexus of political connections with other leading families most notably with the Cornelii Scipiones, the most continuously successful of the great Roman houses through his mother, Cornelia, daughter of the conqueror of Hannibal, and through his sister Sempronia, wife of Scipio Aemilianus, the destroyer of Carthage.
Born into an aristocratic Roman family, Tiberius Sempronius was heir to a nexus of political connections with other leading families most notably with the Cornelii Scipiones, the most continuously successful of the great Roman houses through his mother, Cornelia, daughter of the conqueror of Hannibal, and through his sister Sempronia, wife of Scipio Africanus, the destroyer of Carthage.
The order was sent through Northwood, the Navy's command centre in west London, to the Conqueror.
No government could have lasted so long, found its way somehow through so many difficulties, and in the end actually have fought so hard against the conqueror without having much virtue with which to balance its vices.
