Tristan Hughes

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.

So they've built up, they've done the sort of preliminaries for a campaign that's going to happen the next campaign season.

And it's ready to go.

Which makes sense.

Where he's drinking too much and falls ill.

And then there are all sorts of rumors at the time and subsequently of poison and various theories as to how it could be delivered.

You do get a sense that many people are really unhappy with how things are, but don't really know what they want.

But there is no alternative to Alexander.

Roxanne is pregnant this time, but they don't know whether she'll carry to term.