This was an oppurtunity not to miss. The local army was dispatched and quickly moved in to liberate Tomis.
While the Illyrians joined the fight on the side of the Getes, there was little actual fighting, and as the Getic rebellion began to falter, peace was made and Tomis came under my benevolent protection.
The Getic rebellion lasted for almost two more years until it was brought down. The Seleucid civil war on the other hand had ended a few days before the war with the Getae with Omirus still on the throne. Despite initial struggles, he had managed to gather a vast army of 70,000 men and defeated the opposition.
It was at this time I, in my great and limitless wisdom, had my divinity proclaimed all across the realm. No one could doubt the truth of it.
No one but Philocrates, the general that had liberated Tomis decided to attempt becoming the Pharaoh himself.
He refused to acknowledge my divinity, but him and those who followed him soon found themselves defeated on every turn. After a long march I met his army in Epirus and I crushed his forces. The traitors fell in great numbers, and I was victorious.
He fled with the remains of his army to Thessaly, but after some fighting he was captured and executed. Such is the fate of those that dare defy the divine Isocrates.
Some rebels remained, but after a year of fighting they had been defeated as well. Peace was restored and the Kingdom could recover.
While I ruled in peace, Omirus the Seleucid was not so lucky. Two thirds of his army, and most of his provinces decided to join the general Berossus in his bid for the throne.
After four years of fighting the city of Ecbatana fell and Omirus fled to Arabia where he defiantly opposed Berossus for a few years, but in the end he was betrayed by those eager to please the powerful Berossus, who shortly thereafter died leaving his own son Omirus as the King in Seleucia. Corduene took advantage of the struggle and declared independence, and was promptly promised my protection.
So nearing the fourtieth year of my reign, I decided that being merely Pharaoh was not enough. No I was Isocrates the Divine, Pharaoh of Egypt and Basileus of Macedonia and Asia. King of Kings and clearly the Greatest Ruler in the World. Others may have boasted similarly, but while they suffered from hubris, for me it is nothing but the simple truth.
Pharaohs 474-730
Code:
Ptolemy II 470-490
Ptolemy III 490-519
Ptolemy IV 519-540
Ptolemy V 540-546
Zosimus I 546-563
Ptolemy VI 563-608
Zosimus II 608-640
Isocrates I 640-691
Isocrates II 691-
Egypt at the end