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Gurdim In reply to Shabazik [2017-12-14 14:54:34 +0000 UTC]

cause they were more trustworthy than bizantine high level warriors, who where all inside those game-of-throne-like backstab plots and power playings  

(a similar reasoning was made in Venice at a certain point of its history... as all the candidates for city management were alligned to some familiy or party, they simply went "abroad" and asked someone who was stranger and thus out of every suspect, "super partes", and called him the Podestà. I know it's another pair of sleeves, but that's to tell how much the byzantinian Basileus trusted his nobles xD. Also everyone knew that the men from the north fought well and were always interested in earning money by rotating their hands with weapons in them...)

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TuomasMyllyla In reply to Gurdim [2017-12-16 14:24:30 +0000 UTC]

...And didn't hesitate the dirty handiwork like civilized people.

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Blondbraid In reply to Shabazik [2017-12-12 23:01:40 +0000 UTC]

Yes, too many books and movies just focus on them raiding Britain, I want to see more about the vikings who traveled east, and the Byzantine empire is seriously underutilized in fiction!

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TuomasMyllyla In reply to Blondbraid [2017-12-13 00:51:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, well. Now that I have finished the Pagans trilogy, I'm very much entertaining the idea of a comic taking place in Byzantine empire... Something to do with a bunch of Varangians getting mixed up to one of many schemes of the highest levels of power. The outcome would be bloody, believe me

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TuomasMyllyla In reply to Orestix [2017-12-11 16:35:56 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that was a bit later

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