After the rise of the Roman Empire, the faith in Athena gradually merged with Minerva.
Around 43 BC, after the Roman Legions invaded and ruled Britain, the Romans built many saunas and large bathing facilities in Bath, which the Romans considered to be a miraculous site of the spring and the Goddess of Wisdom, Minerva.
(The empire’s bathing culture was very advanced; arenas and public baths were an indispensable part of the early empire. Romans loved cleanliness, unlike the Middle Ages where people didn’t bathe.)
Minerva’s divine role in warfare was unclear, but several of her temples were directly transformed from training grounds.
This aspect inherited ancient Greek culture.
Because the Great Divine Hall of Artemis was also a training ground, specifically used to train excellent archers.
"Does she have some misconception about me and Spartans?"
The Crow Queen - Triss may well think that Duncan possesses the power of the War God or the forces of war, or perhaps the special abilities of Spartans that rapidly enhance oneself through combat and slaughter.
Duncan didn’t know how to explain, so he simply left it at that.
He glanced at the strategic map and, after a moment of pondering, said, "Let’s go take a look and find a few horses while we’re at it."
"Try not to get involved in their war."
Their group was only five, Duncan was in full condition, Severus was upgraded to an elite unit but was lightly handicapped, the Crow Queen - Triss had powerful bursts but took too long to prepare and required the support of relics from the old era.
The witch - Anya and the female slave rescued from the bandit stronghold were almost equivalent to half a combat unit.
Her two-star whiteboard strength was all fluff.
"Five people can only count as three combat units."
Duncan didn’t dare to take risks, he approached quietly along the strategic map and discovered troops fighting in the distant plains.
——Saxon elite raiders (one-star).
——Saxon elite axemen [Sol’s Blessing] (one-star silver-gray).
——Germanic Priesthood.
Duncan saw for the first time the organization of non-combatant units on the battlefield; they seemed to be encouraging Saxon warriors around them, dressed very much like the priests of polytheistic Nordic areas, both men and women, with a small scale of only about ten people, who would also bestow blessings on Saxon warriors.
They could inspire the Barbarian Race troops into a state of ’high morale’.
"It’s kind of like the church priests during the Crusades period, who went to war with the army."
"Are they supernatural units?"
Duncan was quite curious, because he hadn’t yet activated his mana bar, the Crow Queen - Triss had said that many wizards and priests did not have casting abilities, and only a very few were able to perform some simple witchcraft.
——Barbarian Chieftain’s Guard (one-star).
——Saxon noble knights (one-star silver-gray).
On the God-perspective strategic map, the composition of the Saxon army was quite complex with various types of combat units. They also had a cavalry unit, with the Chieftain’s Guard protecting the leader, and the Saxon noble knights were well-equipped, already considered true heavy cavalry.
Fortunately, their numbers were few, only about thirty or forty.
Opposing them were the native tribes of Great Britain, some of whose units were very similar to the Roman legions.
——British Legion (low configuration field army).
——Garrison Marine Corps (low configuration border defense army).
——Sarmatian auxiliary cavalry.
——Lager heavy cavalry (one-star).
——British Monastic Order.
The most attention-grabbing among them was a heavy cavalry unit composed of knights, marked as the ’Duke of Dingtiger’s Knight Guard’, all one-star units, with elite knights, well-equipped, all in full scale armor, and the warhorses were armored as well, similar to ironclad cavalry.
They numbered about a dozen, mixed with some armored riders and a small number of light cavalry.
Duncan struggled to recall, as if remembering something, muttering, "Duke of Dingtiger?"
"In legend, didn’t King Uther sleep with the Duke of Dingtiger’s wife?"
"And then King Arthur was born?"
If Duncan’s memory was correct, King Uther, while the Duke of Dingtiger was away, had Merlin the wizard transform him into the appearance of the Duke and then secretly snuck into the castle, spending a night with the Duke’s wife, eventually leading to the conception of King Arthur.
The Duke of Dingtiger was on the front lines resisting the invaders, while King Uther took the opportunity to sleep with his wife and later, after the Duke of Dingtiger died, his wife married King Uther.
From then on, power in the Kingdom of Camelot was completely centralized in King Uther’s hands.
"Has King Uther slept with her now?"
Duncan observed the battlefield and found that the situation for the Britons’ army was quite unfavorable, as the auxiliary legion of the Canti People was about to be overwhelmed.
This was a relatively primitive tribal nation.
The Canti People to this day still had some ’group marriage’ traditions, where different clan tribes each provided a group of young men and women, say ten men and ten women married, they could freely mate, a man could mate with any of the ten women to reproduce offspring, and a woman could engage in conjugal relations with any of the ten men. (To prevent population outflow)
It was after Great Britain came under the conquering yoke of the empire that they slowly transformed their cultural traditions.
However, in some remote areas, there remained very primitive tribes, even cannibals, and even older ’miscellaneous marriage’ traditions. The early savages of Great Britain were still many.
The Caesar era documented many things about Great Britain, and for hundreds of years afterward, Romans worked hard to change the traditions of these primitive tribes.