[@Kho] Hmmm...good point. I wasn't quite sure what timeframe seasonally we were going for, but I'm kind of in an autumnal mood right now since fall is so close, so I shot for then. Though I suppose it could be snowy in the same area in spring, since it's pretty damn cold there apparently, though there would be less comfy descriptions of autumn foliage :( But it's up to the GM's I suppose. 

Also, my second IC post is coming soon to a forum near you, it's just going to be rather lengthy and cover to different POVs, the first of which I was getting a bit of writer's block on since it's mostly flavor text about the Sasanian Empire and introducing how they view the whole Muslim uprising. Since Ctesiphon is only a little bit south of Baghdad IRL it probably would've been the talk of the town, so Alanda and his POV is how I'm tying the Karenas into the rest of the story. The POV in Nahavand, which will shortly be connected to Alanda's is kind of its own internal thing that (I hope) will eventually have repercussions once we have the whole thing going. 

Be on the lookout for an obscure and very weird ancient Persian torture method being put into use soon ;)