Has anyone seen this?

**Little Turtle** · January 02, 2009, 02:13 PM

Lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Immortals

**Nero666** · January 03, 2009, 09:43 AM

Nice find! Wonder who made the render, it wasn't us I think

**Spartan198** · January 03, 2009, 12:34 PM

That's nice, but I like ROP's Immortals better.

**Nero666** · January 04, 2009, 05:45 AM

Actually it's the same as used in ROP, it's just someone else who made the image of it.

**chaney** · April 05, 2009, 11:02 AM

Can smeone please post a picture of the ingame immortals
Do they look like the ones from 300?

**Antiochos VII Sidetes** · April 05, 2009, 04:02 PM

I should slap you for asking that question.

300 is completely ahistorical.

So, no.

They're like weird yellow-robe wearing spearmen with bows.

**FliegerAD** · April 05, 2009, 07:16 PM

Actually, these ‘weird robes’ of the Arshtibara are called Elamite Court-Dress, which the Persian soldiers famously wear on the Persepolis Reliefs. I for one rather doubt that it was used much in combat, but one can have other opinions on that, and since it offers a distinction to the Anusyia, who have the Median Dress in game, it was chosen as in game representation.

Maybe I should clarify, what all these terms mean.

Athanatoi (Immortals) is Herodotus’ famous mistranslation of Anushyia, which actually means companions. The Anushyia were not an elite in the sense like the SAS is an elite military unit; they were the professional army. As such they were of course much more elite than the ordinary city militia, being after all real soldiers and nothing else, but among the Anushyia/professional army there was a true elite unit (like SAS e.g.): “a thousand spearmen of the best and noblest blood of Persia, carrying their spears in the customary manner” (Herodotus 7,41). One can identify them with the term Arshtibara (Spear-bearers) and we did so.

And, no, they don't look like the 300-imagination.