@hasnain_313_ ibn Saba' simultaneously fomenting widescale political revolts in Egypt while founding a bunch of schismatic rebel movements in Khorasan.
I started reading an Internet Archive scanned biography of this guy the other night and the narrative of his parents and early life genuinely almost made me tear up
@evcrmire@mrglynncarny I never actually understood this logic because lots of rulers we'd consider gay had lots of children - the idea that Rhaenyra was somehow forced by circumstance to have an affair with Harwyn because her husband was gay (as opposed to her and Laenor just not caring) is silly.