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#LEADER LIST (Calgacus)

Calgacus
Argentocoxos
Nechtan
Brude
Cruithne
Talorc


#CITY LIST (Calgacus)

Caledonii
Maeatae
Decantae
Vacomagi
Epidii
Damnonii
Novantae
Venicones
Taezali
Votadini
Lugi
Smertae
Cornavii
Carnocacae
Cerones
Fortriu
Fib
Mar
Ce
Fidach
Cait
Dundurn
Dunkeld
Scone
Forteviot
Forres
Dunblane
Inverness
Inchcolm
Dunnichen
Dinas Eiddyn
Whithorn
Camus Camilla

#CIVILOPEDIA (Calgacus)


#RACE_Picts
^ The Picts are $LINK<militaristic and religious=GCON_Strengths>. They start the game with the discoveries
$LINK<Masonry=TECH_Masonry> and $LINK<Warrior Code=TECH_Warrior_Code> and build $LINK<???). 
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^The Picts first come into the history books in the Roman historian Tacitus's biography of his uncle Agricola, although they are not first called Picts until a later witer, Eumenius, in the late 200s. In Tacitus's work, their valiant leader Calgacus delivers a famous and inspiring speech to his troops. He says of the Romans:
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"Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them. Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a desolation and call it peace."
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and of his own people, he says:
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 "We, the choice flower of Britain, were treasured  in her most secret places. Out of sight of subject shores, we kept even our eyes free from the defilement of tyranny. We, the last men on earth, the last of the free, have been shielded till today by the very remoteness and the seclusion for which we are famed."
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Calgacus and his Picts lose the following battle, the location of which is unknown, but the name has come down as "Mons Graupius". 
#DESC_RACE_Picts
^This seclusion, though, preserved them through the years; it preserved them through the campaigns of future Romans such as Septimius Severus. They remain unconquered.
As the Roman Empire weakened, the Picts become one of the vulture tribes that troubled the Empire. The Caledonii and Maeatae, probably representing the Picts north and south of the Mounth, were the chief aggressors by the 4th century. They are alleged by Ammianus Marcellenus to have occupied the province of Britannia with the Scots, before being expelled. Centuries later, Bede writes of them as one of the 4 main peoples of Britain (the Britons, the Scots and the English are the others) and viewed them as a single political entity. The Pictish confederacy of the Maeatae developes into what is known as the kingdom of "Fortriu" centred on Forteviot. This was probably Bede's "Pictland." To the west were the Scots, to the south the Britons, and in the far south the English. In the 7th century, a English kingdom called Northumbria absorbed most of Pictland's southern neighbours, and would have absorbed Pictland too if it weren't for Bridei-Brude  mac Bile's annihilation of the English army at the battle variously known as Dunnichen Moss and Nechtansmere in 685. As an independent entity, they survived until 843, when they are conquered by the Gaelic chieftain, Cinaed mac Alpin.
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The Picts, however, remain an enigma. Although there is strong evidence that they were Celts, this is not universally accepted, and some scholars believe that they preserved an ancient pre-Indo-European tongue. It is hard to know for sure though, since they left no decipherable weritten records. 