Hey guess what the Death Knights are allll going to 430 BC to experience the potentially-literally breathtaking views of the Plague of Athens! Owing to their... Particular talents, and their personal states, the Initiative has chosen to just send all of them to ensure the eventual success of the mission. The group will simply be transported to a boat approaching the docks of Athens, but yet far enough out that anything released aerially should a fire... 'happen', won't affect the city itself. The task is simple: be Death Knights in an enclosed space.

Several things in recorded history took place due to the Plague of Athens, but few seem more closely related than the Peloponnesian War. The ultimate result of the lack of this plague is indeed a more unified Greece, as the war comes to a much more narrowly accounted defeat. Owing to the plague having also originally spread to Sparta, both nations ultimately wind up decimating each other, but remain stronger than they would have otherwise. However, the result the Initiative is hoping to achieve is actually religious. During the plague, as it struck both those who did not believe in the gods as well as avid worshipers, the Athenian belief in the pantheon was shaken. Without this, the Greek pantheon survives until much later; rather than being entirely overtaken by the Roman, the two become one, and withstand Christianity's eradication of both. This shifts the ultimate site of Christian power from Rome to Constantinople later on, allowing the city to withstand invasion from the Ottoman empire.

You guys basically wrote it yourselves idk why i was even here