[Iskandar treasures the memory of their senet game so this year there's only one gift he can possibly present to his illustrious predecessor and fellow pharaoh. Ozymandias receives a wooden box that unfolds into a 8 x 8 squares chessboard with compartments inside holding pieces. Though no person familiar with actual chess, or it's Indian ancestor chaturanga, would recognize the pieces.
Iskandar ordered them to be fashioned not in their traditional shapes but modeled after Egyptian and Hittite armies as he knew them. With Egyptian side sculpted with remarkable artistry from white marble and Hittite side carved in hard, charcoal-black wood.
King is represented by no other than a small figurine of Ozymandias himself, seated on his throne wearing crowns of Lower and Upper Egypt. Queen by his wife, Nefertari. There's one piece representing famed Egyptian chariots and another for cavalry. Pawns are infantry soldiers armed with curved swords, spears and long shields. All pieces carved with
There's a note attached to the set.]
"On such a field of battle we can meet even in current circumstances. It would be my great pleasure to provide a presentation how it is played shall you ever wish so.
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Iskandar ordered them to be fashioned not in their traditional shapes but modeled after Egyptian and Hittite armies as he knew them. With Egyptian side sculpted with remarkable artistry from white marble and Hittite side carved in hard, charcoal-black wood.
King is represented by no other than a small figurine of Ozymandias himself, seated on his throne wearing crowns of Lower and Upper Egypt. Queen by his wife, Nefertari. There's one piece representing famed Egyptian chariots and another for cavalry. Pawns are infantry soldiers armed with curved swords, spears and long shields. All pieces carved with
There's a note attached to the set.]
"On such a field of battle we can meet even in current circumstances. It would be my great pleasure to provide a presentation how it is played shall you ever wish so.
Iskandar"