Cue Some Timeless Theatrics

[mosthonest]

There's a strange breeze in the plaza. That's not that weird, there always seem to be odd air currents rippling through it, but this one feels warm and Mediterranean--smells like hot sand and heady spices. And if you listened hard enough you might be able to hear the sea birds and polyglot babble it carries in from the jostling marketplace in Cyprus.

It seems to wrap around Iago, sitting at a table on which there are a few empty cups. From all outward appearances, he's no one exceptional. A seasoned, weary soldier on his off time. Simple well-worn tunic, rough hands, wide and honest face with a few scars. Simple, open smile. He gestures to the seats across from him. Classic Nexus set-up, just another soul looking to share a drink.

"I am often long away from my native land. And often do my thoughts linger on it, some parts of it I miss dearly as my heart would miss blood, as my body would miss breath." He's already offhandedly pouring wine into a cup for himself from a drawn leather sack, and now some for you.

"Knowest thou that feeling? Come, tell. I have learned the taste of wine is richer seasoned with tales of home."

[*waves* Old, old timey occasional player here. So glad to see these communities are still popping!]

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[mosthonest]

"If your numbers are few, how fare you in battle? How fill you your table?" It was a question Iago could already guess the answer to. Slaves most likely, as the Ottomans had. And Venetians too, in their fashion. Reaping the profits of an elaborate trade network was only a step removed, and no better. The doings of skeksis and humans indeed weren't very different at all.

He certainly could be brash and vicious, in the right moment. For the right people. But he'd often found that placid geniality was a better mode in which to operate. One can't be a good listener if one was too loud. "Only one Conqueror? What strength and skill in battle he must possess to do the conquering for all your kind. We Venetians are conquerors all, in our little ways. We spread such a great effort out to make work light amongst us, and have more time each for counting money and feasting and prayer." Which also, in their little ways, were all part of the conquering.