FerriticMatrix

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery.
A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him.
He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself.
But how can such things not attract jealous eyes?
The naval superpower- Cantagena,
The unstoppable army of- Exolas, 
The superpower of the east- Adhania,
The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, 
The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, 
And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest,
All want something from each other.
In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all.

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Herald of Steel

The horses in a slow trot, almost menacingly made their way closer and closers, the sound of more than 8,000 beasts (2,000 from Ural, and 6,000 from Nibraz because each chariot was pulled by at least 2 horses, and sometimes even more) stamping their hooves against the ground making the very earth shake with trepidation.


Somehow the slow methodical approach was actually worse than a full gallop.


But why did horses not gallop this short distance?


Because if they had wanted to, they could have easily run this relatively short 1 kilometer.


Simply, it was because it was far easier to maintain a solid line by controlling a horse's walking speed, rather than a running speed, similar to how humans can keep a solid line while walking, but it becomes very hard to do when they start running.


Because everyone walks around the same speed and its easier to synchronize with that, rather than a running speed, which is quite different for people.


Alexander's Secret Weapon