You ever stumble upon the Blood Covenant of the Lictor, that grim rite performed before the Siege of Babylon? It's a wild mix of dark magic and brutal strategy that might just satisfy your love for detail and my obsession with the unknown.

The Blood Covenant of the Lictor was a one‑night, single‑combat rehearsal. The first half, the blood‑letting, served two purposes: it broke the mind’s fear barrier and released the “miasma” that the Lictor needed to bind the battlefield’s chaos. The second half, the tactical rehearsal, was essentially a forced, literal war‑game: the commanders would stand in a circle, each with a sigil, and move in perfect synchrony to the rhythm of the sacrificial chant. The rhythm dictated formations; the blood line dictated the order of strikes. The surviving fragments show the chant ending with “Kha‑tuh, shra‑m," which is a syllable that, when spoken, creates a brief field of static that disorients the enemy’s sense of direction for a single turn. That’s the precise edge that made the Lictor’s forces win the Siege of Babylon.