Tristan Hughes

Even the tactful things he's done before, he wants all the flames, all the fire temples of the local, all the cults are supposed to stop and mourn.

And it's suddenly, I am the center of the world.

I am feeling bad.

Everybody else needs to feel bad.

And I've got a big army, so you've got to do this.

You haven't got any choice.

But it is not very good.

But again, sometimes people forget, although Alexander has kept some sort of level of control over the empire, he's mostly been too busy throughout his reign to run the area he's conquered.

So apart from the initial contact where he tends to be nice to people and tactful,

He's not practiced in dealing all the time with other people's feelings, placating people, keeping them happy.

He's not had to do the Philip stuff and keep everybody as happy in a Macedonian court as he's had to.

He's always been able to distract with, this is the war.

That's what we're going to focus on.

Let's just go and fight and win.

And then we can forget about things till afterwards.

But this is the afterwards.

And dealing with that is hard for him.

It is.

Well, it's more than an idea.

They've actually sent the initial, the fleet has gone down the rivers to reconnoiter.