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Nikolas's return to Thera was little remarked. What began as an idle philosophical conversation outside a Theran general store became an inspired oration of the power of mortals to save themselves from their life's downtrodden lot. This attracted the criticism of [[Severian Marcella]], a Theran farmhand of Nikolas's age, who tempered Nikolas's lofty ideals with down-to-earth cynicism. It was here, in this fateful first confrontation, that Nikolas revealed his vision of the utopian land known to his dreams as [[Seleucar]]. | Nikolas's return to Thera was little remarked. What began as an idle philosophical conversation outside a Theran general store became an inspired oration of the power of mortals to save themselves from their life's downtrodden lot. This attracted the criticism of [[Severian Marcella]], a Theran farmhand of Nikolas's age, who tempered Nikolas's lofty ideals with down-to-earth cynicism. It was here, in this fateful first confrontation, that Nikolas revealed his vision of the utopian land known to his dreams as [[Seleucar]]. | ||
Thereafter the two became travelling companions, and as they trekked across the hills and dales of Sapience, their public debates – Nikolas the hopeful optimist, Severian the wry voice of reason – grew to almost legendary status. Vagabonds and rogue warriors joined their procession little by little, collected from each village as the duo's orations ranged across the continent, until they finally came to a head in a climactic debate at the [[Theatron Sarapin]] just outside of [[Shallam]]. Here, Nikolas's vision overwhelmed Severian's pessimism in a public forum, to unequivocal public acclaim, and the band set out from there to found Seleucar in proper. | Thereafter the two became travelling companions, and as they trekked across the hills and dales of Sapience, their public debates – Nikolas the hopeful optimist, Severian the wry voice of reason – grew to almost legendary status. Famous among these was what came to be known as the [[Sermon on the Rocks]]. Vagabonds and rogue warriors joined their procession little by little, collected from each village as the duo's orations ranged across the continent, until they finally came to a head in a climactic debate at the [[Theatron Sarapin]] just outside of [[Shallam]]. Here, Nikolas's vision overwhelmed Severian's pessimism in a public forum, to unequivocal public acclaim, and the band set out from there to found Seleucar in proper. | ||
==Conquest== | ==Conquest== | ||