Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks! I must teach you. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. ![]() Roxana, on the other hand, will probably still want Stateira dead. Hesphastion as regent (also married to Stateira's sister, incidentally) will probably try to avoid that, but he'll likely try to avoid killing Stateira as well (if only because he'd probably see it as a betrayal of Alexander). Anyone who wants to claim the "rightful" Akhaimenid title could try to marry Stateira, and would then by a serious rival for power in Persia. She is the eldest daughter of Dareios, and Alexander has no male heirs in this TL. Regarding Roxana, Kleopatra and Stateira: I'd say Stateira is still a significant threat, at least potentially. ![]() That was definitely the case in OTL, but an unfortunate tendency to portray them as bitter rivals has emerged, based on a severe misreading of the one single disagreement the two men are known to have had. Very, very interesting! As others have already made key observations, I'll just offer a less obvious one, and congratulate you on accurately presenting Hephaistion and Perdikkas as friends who worked very well together.
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