#Barcid

[jillbeans23]

Unfinished Hannibal Barca

Rough sketch of Hannibal Barca.

[risu442]

mommy_bc insta story 27/6/2023

[ishouldhavejustchangedname]

Barcode fringe is a little to confident with that phone camera

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

In regards to your woes of everyone being named Marcellius. I just read "The Carthaginians" by Dexter Hoyos, and if you thought the Romans were bad for reusing names, then hoo boy the Carthaginians were even worse. All Carthaginian aristocrats had one of these names, Hannibal, Hasdrubal, Himilco, Gisco, Bomilcar, Hanno, Bostar, Adherbal, Mago, and Maharbal. And if they didn't have last names, and if they had cognomen, they were rarely recorded. There are only two noble Carthaginian families that can definitely be identified, and thats the Magonids, and the Barcids, And with the Magonids, that wasn't even their cognomen. We just know that the descendants of a certain Mago held power for a century and a half, so all the major Carthaginians we hear about in this area are Probably Magonids, unless stated otherwise.

I'm never teasing my mom for naming dogs after food items and onomatopoeia again.

[whencyclopedia]

Hamilcar Barca

Hamilcar Barca (c. 285 – c. 228 BCE) was a Carthaginian general active in the First Punic War (264-241 BCE). He then quashed a rebellion closer to home between 241 and 237 BCE before returning abroad, where he successfully expanded Carthaginian interests in southern Spain. In these conflicts, Hamilcar had switched Carthage from a naval power to a land power with great success, and he firmly established the Barcid family as the ruling house of Carthage. He was the father of Hannibal Barca who continued his father's tactics and won major land battles in Italy during the Second Punic War.

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[regretfromwatpad]

Finaly time for another skit of my ocs

Kweven holding a barcide scanner: you know how i can't scan my self is becuse im priceless

Ricardo: or your not worth anything

Kweven : oh...

[enemyofrome]

doing any kind of research on the second punic war is 10% pointing and laughing at the romans, 90% pointing and crying at the barcids

[macbethapologist]

thinking about her (barcid spain)

[basileuus]

@audaciiae.

     MEIRA  FEELS  LIKE  SHE  is  withering  away  to  the  grave.  A  fever  shivers  through  her  body  and  then  seizes  her  with  a  raging  fire,  her  stomach  heaves  and  purges,  and  her  skin  has  grown  gray  and  scaly.  She  truly  thought  she  was  dying  the  first  time  this  struck  her,  once  the  Barcids  conquered  Hispania,  and  she  had  laid  in  bed  for  a  fortnight,  praying  to  any  god  that  might  hear  her,  begging  for  answers.  But  when  the  worst  had  befallen  her,  it  passed,  and  she  grew  strong  once  more.  Romans  march  upon  Hispania,  the  people  stunned  in  the  wake  of  Carthage’s  defeat,  and  Meira  suffers  once  more.  She  has  never  been  independent  of  the  things  that  impact  her  mother  country.  Her  blood  is  in  the  sand  and  the  sand  is  in  her  blood ;  she  and  Hispania  are  one  in  the  same.

     A  knock  comes  at  the  door  just  as  the  sky  begins  to  lighten  from  black  to  an  even,  nautical  hue.  Visitors  aren’t  unheard  of  in  the  stretch  of  empty  land  outside  of  Gadir,  or,  as  the  Romans  have  been  calling  it,  Gades.  The  untamed  land  between  merchant  towns  and  old  Carthaginian  fortresses  is  rough  and  unforgiving,  and  to  see  a  homestead  seems  like  a  gift  from  the  gods.  The  potpourri  of  man  is  most  often  dumped  on  her  doorstep,  entertainers  and  artisans  and  tourists  and  hunters  and  the  like,  all  gone  off  the  familiar  path  and  drawn  to  the  smell  of  citrus  and  the  tangerine  glow  of  light  coming  from  Meira’s  home.  All  homespun  faces  and  homespun  people,  in  their  own  way. 

     She  staggers  down  the  stairs,  as  all  her  servants  and  hands  are  still  asleep,  a  blanket  draped  about  her  trembling  shoulders.  Surprise  takes  her,  however,  when  she  opens  the  door  to  see  a  man  looking  as  Roman  as  they  come.  Meira  recoils  and  fixes  him  with  a  wary  gaze  with  bloodshot  eyes.  She  doesn’t  care  much  for  the  Romans.  She  hasn’t  heard  very  many  good  things,  and  her  illness  makes  her  even  more  surly.  Meira  fears  slavery  is  in  her  future,  and  a  ravaging  modernisation  of  Hispania  that  changes  everything  it  once  was  forever,  washing  it  away  like  waves  upon  the  shore.  Meira  does  not  want  to  be  Roman,  she  does  not  want  to  be  another  province  in  the  Empire,  she  does  not  want  this.

     Her  brow  sets  with  poor  resolve,  and  she  stares  at  the  man  warily.  “What  do  you  want  from  me?”  She  demands,  breath  rasping.

[ranilla-bean]

ooo it’s hasdrubal!!!

[max1461]

honestly though I think hannibal the barcid is a better sexyman than cannibal hannibal from your show. got that carthaginian swag.

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

@globalchristendom i’m gonna answer you here so i can give a more in-depth reply.

so yeah, i’m no expert, but from what i understand after the first punic war, the carthaginians no longer held naval supremacy. firstly, the romans had finally gotten their sea-legs so to speak. they built a large, formidable navy and finally had experience fighting at sea. the romans were a resilient people, and going against the known-world’s ultimate navy while having no-navy-at-all themselves they really had no choice but to learn fast. and boy did they.

the other thing is that the second punic war started mostly as a private war. hannibal attacked saguntum on his own without the approval of the carthaginian government. not that they were eager to stop him either. in fact, the whole expansion into iberia was a mostly private affair for the barcid family. and my point is, as far as i’m aware, the barcid family didn’t have any ships. so when hannibal inherited the army (originally mercenaries, but eventually became personally loyal to the barcids) from his father, i don’t think he inherited any ships. so if he wanted ships to carry his men to rome, he’d have to request the ships from the government. which leads me to my next point.

the government didn’t have any ships. at least not any warships. after the first punic war one of the carthaginian generals (hanno) campaigned to have the navy demobilized. they complied. hanno had no interest in risking war with rome again and thought it was better for carthage to focus more on its african territories. and so, with hanno dominating carthaginian politics, the idea that the government would have been willing to give hannibal ships is unlikely. and, even if they were willing, they didn’t have any to give him.

and finally, after the first punic war, rome had acquired sicily, corsica, and sardinia. if carthage somehow managed to field a fleet they’d have to face roman ports at every corner. the fact that the carthaginians barely used their navy at all in the second war demonstrates their naval insecurity. and the few naval engagements there were, the romans almost always came out on top. i think there was only one single instance of the carthaginians successfully sending reinforcements to hannibal in italy, and that was only after most of southern italy had defected to the carthaginians. too little, too late unfortunately for them.

but yeah, i think even if he had access to a fleet, he probably wouldn’t have used them. one, because of the aforementioned roman naval superiority. it simply would have been too great a risk. he could lose his whole army in one bad naval engagement in a sea filled with roman ships. and two, because as you mention, he had allies to gain in gaul and knew crossing the alps would take the romans by surprise. which it did. because that shit is fucking insane.

[tieflng]

scipio africanus is NOT cool OR sexy. this post made by barcid family gang.

[fawngored]

“Saint-Just refused to give way before the storm that then broke out ... He would show these false patriots how to die.” - J.M. Thompson, Leaders of the French Revolution

Many thanks to @ghostplantss, @georgesdamnton, @robespeeair, @leafs-and-leaflets, @lesmissouriables, @nitenebresnicoupsdefoudre, and @barcids for your unwavering support and encouragement while I laboured on this. 

[furyfirerpg]

THE BARCILLIANS

the empire beyond the spires

Through the passes of the great Southspires is the kingdom of Barcid, a country known for being both beautiful and deadly -- considering it is surrounded on all sides by ocean, mountain, or the Great Waste of the southern desert. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- the sheer monstrosity that is its geographical surroundings, the people of Barcid are known to be hardy, intelligent, and impeccably inventive. They see the magic used by their neighbors as a crutch, often deeming it dangerous and unreliable. Because of this, the Barcillians lean upon science and invention, making them perhaps the most advanced of the nearby realms.

INSPIRATION: the ottoman empire, dorne of game of thrones

Teasers: magic is seen as taboo or a secret to hide, quite liberal in the ways of love and gender identity, an empire without an emperor (wait for it :D), language is a combination of spoken spanish-based and written arabic-based, scientific and mathematical geniuses

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