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    if you look at today's borders, you're in the right country. But wrong culture and you're a couple centuries late

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    Will spoil the riddle in the evening

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    In that case, I'll pop it. I'm feeling a bit better, so I can probably think of a riddle to post.

    Cookie has a thing for ancient Syracusans it seems. We had Dionysius I, Dionysius II, now it's time for their successor, Dion of Syracuse.

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    exactly

    Someone pls rep Sar1n on my behalf

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    My guess was a Syracusan but I was too lazy to use Wikipedia.

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    Instead you have been thoroughly and utterly humiliated, oh wise one. Your phalera should go to me.

    As a sidenote: IIRC Dion never even managed to control the entirety of even just Syracuse itself, and he ruled only for a very brief time, so it's a bit of a stretch to call him a tyrant or even a ruler. Though the aspirations certainly were there. Even as someone I imagine to have been a spoiled brat who had all his status and wealth thanks to daddy, he still managed to be quite interesting in my opinion. If only by foiling a unification of Magna Graecia, which a stable dynasty could have achieved, thereby paving the Italian states and Rome in particular the way to world domination. Dionysios II continued to rule in the other part of Syracuse and survive Dion by a bit.

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    Hey lads, I miss this game! Is it someone's turn in particular right now, or would it be alright if I posted a new riddle to get the ball rolling again?
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    Damn, I completely forgot about this. I couldn't think of anything for osme time and then it kinda...faded away.

    Feel free to restart it.

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    Good! I like this game, and I don't want it fading away. Anyway, here is the next one:

    My home, it was an empire of gold, spanning the far-flung seas.
    We took what we would by fire and force, or by the spreading of foul disease.
    Yet never was I a tool for them, I fought for what I knew to be right.
    By the power of pen I did what I could to spare the Reds our foul might.
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    Damn. I don't want to make up a new riddle, this one is way too easy though. I'll give it a week before popping it.

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    I'll take advantage of Sarin's chivalry and I'll guess Bartolomé de las Casas. Everything seems to match.

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    Ah, Abdül, that is a very fitting guess, but it is unfortunately not who I had in mind. Guess again, my good sir!
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    ....that would have been my guess too. It lines up perfectly with him.

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    Yeah, I think the riddle actually does point a teensy bit more toward de las Casas than to my guy, but only because de las Casas is sooooo fitting. But the correct answer also fits. I will give you guys a bit more time to think, research, and guess, and if nothing is forthcoming after a day or so, then I will post a small hint.
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    Well. Since nobody is guessing, I'll go....Bernardino de Sahagún.

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    Ah, Sar1n, so confident in the beginning, but now you can't figure it out.

    To help you guys along, I will give you a double-hint.
    1) de las Casas is almost correct.
    2) Look below my avatar for further guidance.
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    Well, my two guesses fit the riddle perfectly.

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    Fitting the riddle is good, but you still have to guess the right person

    Use the hints though, especially 2! Because I can tell you that while both guesses above fit the riddle well, they don't fit the second hint as well. The right guy, however, fits the riddle and the hint. *Hint hint*
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    Complete stab in the dark: Juniperro Serra.
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    Sorry Settra, not that guy (I don't even know who that guy is).

    I really didn't think this one would be so hard. You all seem to have divined all of the specific details, but aren't making the final leap. I will give one last clue, and then if no one has gotten it after a day, I will reveal the answer.

    The final clue is "Salamanca". Do with that what you will.
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