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He is such an absurd historical figure to read about, the way he could get people to rally around him and make his armies work smoothly no matter what.
It looked like he could just wash ashore naked and alone anywhere, recruit a loyal army from whomever appeared to live nearby, and snowball it into a huge professional fighting force on the way to conquer the nearest city.
I listened to a podcast about his life & times, some of the sources they used included his love letters which added a whole other dimension to his character. You have this immensely powerful and gifted military leader, feared across Europe, writing to a 19 year old he just met at a party about how he's just going to die of sadness if she doesn't write back to him immediately.
Sounds like love bombing TBH.