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Originally Posted by Monolith
Warriors? How so? I thought they were always wanderers.
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One theory goes that they were not an actual warrior caste but that they were sort of mercenaries who were granted warrior status. Something more recent I read suggested that they were actually a tribe with different trades including warriors, and that they started wandering after being defeated.
That's of course before they arrived to the Byzantine Empire.
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