[PtD] Signup Thread

**Watercress** · April 29, 2012, 05:25 PM

OOC: Sure, let's get going now.

**The Stig** · April 29, 2012, 11:40 PM

Finished bio.

**Dan the Man** · April 30, 2012, 08:52 AM

Approved!

**EmperorBatman999** · April 30, 2012, 03:34 PM

Am I approved?

So what I don't know a lot about the Greeks.

**Dan the Man** · April 30, 2012, 03:37 PM

You're approved, I should think, but I would like it if your bio could be a few sentences longer.

**Gone 2 the Celts** · May 01, 2012, 02:25 PM

finished bio

**Dan the Man** · May 01, 2012, 05:20 PM

Approved, just don't hit people with your stick.

**Prodigal** · May 02, 2012, 10:20 PM

Kosmas Ionas
Date of Birth and Age: 461 BC, 30 y.o.
Occupation: Strategos

Biography: Kosmas was born into a naval family which has seen several generations in Athens, despite being originally from the unsophisticated Ionian Islands. His was a relatively mundane childhood, his family's income was modest, and he was schooled in traditional land and naval warfare. He fell victim, as many youth did, to the competing schools in philosophy in Athens, and settled, somewhat hedonistically, on Epicurianism. His nature was perhaps already such, but he had discovered a philosophy on which he could pin his selfish and pleasure-seeking wishes.

Surprisingly, he lives an incredibly lavish lifestyle for a general, and makes no attempts to hide the fact that he is very much "in the pocket" of the merchants and aristocrats, voting for and performing their expansionist policies. Those who have raised debate as to this corruption are usually quickly silenced, and are often seen displaying a new toga or flask of olive oil a few days after the incident. On the surface, he would deny all suggestion that he is recieving a hefty amount of gold from the wealthier members of the city to do their bidding, but the reality is clear to all.

Kosmas is an expansionist, and follows whatever the aristocrats and merchants wish. He is intensly hedonistic, and seeks only self-wealth, glory, and pleasure. Naturally, he is popular among the wealthier echelons of Athenian society, and is looked up to as a statuesque model by the ignorant masses, however, his ruse is easily seen through by the philosophers and middle, educated, class of Athenians.