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[center][b] The City-State of Bennipolis [/b][/center]
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[center][i]The 14th Eponymous Year of Athenakles With Lysander as Interrex[/i][/center]
It was a chilly morning in Bennipolis. Luckily for Bennipolis, their farmers were on the barley period of their crop rotation. While the Bennipolitans would prefer wheat to barley, they knew that barley was the hardier crop and more apt for their soil than wheat. Moreover, barley had a lesser chance of failing than wheat, allowing Bennipolitan to have a slightly larger harvest.

On that day, the Ekklesia of Bennipolis had gathered in order to decide the fate of Athenakles, who had single handedly crashed the entire economy of all the Edoniras. From the midst of the Ekklesia, a certain Cimon rose to his feet. This man was from the merchant class, or at least he was, since his means of livelihood had went up into smoke on account of Athenakles’ actions. In this way he spoke:

“My fellow Bennipolitans, we all know what Athenakles had done. He has brought much shame onto this fair city of Bennipolis for several reasons. First, he put himself and his own private interests before the interest of the Demos of Bennipolis. Next, he enacted a decree without our approval, which has caused havoc across Edoniras. What madness overtook you so that you would make such a rash decision, Athenakles? Your negligence has severely hampered Bennipolis in both its own domestic affairs and its international relationships.”

“Normally, we would ease our anger towards a sonless father, as you are, since we would never want to condemn the Bennidae to wither away without any male heirs, as the Bennidae are descended from Bennis herself. However, since the Bennidae are accustomed to allow their eldest daughter to become their heir if both the father is sonless and the daughter has Amazonian blood within her veins, as your daughter, Adraändreis, does. While I would personally want the death penalty, as you have killed the livilihood of numerous men, Hellenes and barbarian alike, which would be the easy way out. Therefore I propose that we perform an ostracism so that this very Athenakles might be ostracized.”

Therefore, all the Bennipolitans present at the Ekkesia were giving broken pottery shards and were instructed to write on the shard whom they wanted to be ostracized. When all the shards had been collected, there were two responses on the shards. One was ΑΘΗ, which were the first three characters of Athenakles’ name. The other response was ΟΔΥ, which was short for Odysseus, the legendary king of Ithaka from the Homeric epics. Once the votes had been counted up, ΑΘΗ had two more shards than ΟΔΥ. Therefore, Athenakles was ordered to leave the boundaries of Bennipolis and enter itno some other country while he was ostracized. His property shall remain untouched, as the rest of his family shall remain in Bennipolis as both guardians of his household and motivation that would inhibit Athenakles from doing anything rash against Bennipolis. Also, Lysander was named as the interrex for the post of Basileus Eponymous, since he would relinquish this position to Athenakles’ daughter once she comes of age in the fall. Furthermore, his son, Diomedes, would become the interrex for Basileus Hierateumatikos.

Also, the following letter was crafted and sent to the Councilate of Arbasses.

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To the Boule of Arbasses .

We have received your letter. Athenakles was not able to response to your letter because his privilege for responding to international messages was revoked. Furthermore, after a long debate within our Ekklesia, we had finally come to a decision to ostracize Athenakles on account of his illegal decree that he invoked without our approval. He should not trouble you for quite some time, if ever again. Also, we, as the Demos of Bennipolis, have decided not to uphold Athenakles’ decree.

May the Immortals be kind to you.

The Demos of Bennipolis, sacred to lovely-haired Bennis.

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Athenakles has reached Terheridon and has supplicated the King there. Refusing a supplicant is a religious taboo, which would cause the gods to turn against Terheridon. Athenakles incites the Terheridonians to war against the Bennipolitans because their neighbors to the south had tried to interfere with the modernization of the Terheridonian military. Now with a more modernized military, along with Terheridon’s larger pool of manpower, the Terheridonians should have narrowed the advantage that Bennipolis had technologically. Since Athenakles was no longer in Bennipolis, Bennipolis no longer had anyone to fulfill the 'Amazon' omen. Furthermore, the economic crash has hurt Bennipolis, but Terheridon was not as inversely affected by the same event. In return for installing himself as the sole monarch of Bennipolis, Athenakles would promise to make his newly obtained country pro-Terheridonian. Athenakles advices that Terheridon should strike as swiftly as possible in order for Bennipolis' allies cannot have enough time to respond. He would like to either lead or assist the invasion force, since he knows the lands of Bennipolis well.
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TL&DR
- "Trial" of Athenakles by the Ekklseia.
- Athenakles is ostracized , meaning he must leave all Bennipolitan territory for 10 years.
-Lysander becomes an interrex for the post of Basileus Eponymous. His son, Diomedes, becomes an interrex for Basileus Hierateumatikos (Lysander's old post). Athenakles' daughter shall inherit the post of Basileia Eponymous when she comes of age in the fall.
-Message sent to the Councilate of Arbasses by Lysander, apologizing for his fellow king's actions and that at this time, Bennipolis shall not uphold Athenakles' decree.