Over the past year or so, developer Oxide Games has released video developer diaries for its upcoming grand strategy game Ara: Untold history On The game’s official YouTube channelTo. Since the game isn’t due out for less than three months, the channel is now starting a new dev diary series that looks at one of the game’s hallmarks: its Encarta digital encyclopedia.

This in-game resource will be available to players to learn more about the true history behind the nations they will rule awake. for the First entry on YouTubeVictoria “Tori” Stian, director of game design at Microsoft’s Xbox division, and Grace Rojas, designer and narrative historian at Oxide Games, give us a look at America’s version of ancient Greece.

As with the real historical version of the Greek Empire, the game version has the nation as one of the greatest influences in Western civilization with its many contributions to culture, politics and more. In the game, the leader of ancient Greece is Sappho, a true poet in that empire who was one of the most revered in that empire.

In the game, Sappho’s abilities as the leader of that empire can help boost the coastal cities of Greece into prosperous places to build your nation. She also has her main leadership trait in the game, Tenth Muse, which helps keep the populace happy. A minor trait, Charismatic, can help a player get more golden periods awake. It also has other small features that could increase the number of great books and music for Greece and give its capital city some research boosts.

Microsoft and Oxide will release more of the Encarta development logs for awake, to look at other nations in the game, and they want to hear from fans about which nations they would like to see in future videos. Meanwhile, the game is set to release on September 24 for PC and Microsoft’s PC Game Pass.