Try this one...
Alexander's generals were a dangerous bunch, all the more so once Alexander died. A Persian eunuch, deciding that the "successors" were worthless trash, poisoned the wine at the funeral. Or at least he did in this Q6 world. In most worlds the eunuch got a heads up and managed to avoid becoming a eunuch in the first place, and thus never worked in the palace. But as clever as this eunuch was,
Ptolemy Soter was shrewder. And with most of his rivals gone, quickly exposed the eunuch. Ptolemy also exposed the eunuch's murder of of Alexander's pregnant bride. Although most people say she witnessed the eunuch's execution.
Basically, this blends the
Alexander Romancer with Pulp Adventure and Noir Detective ( and Fritz Lieber's
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales. The Empire is fabulous, and fabulously corrupt! Read all the Fritz Lieber and
Avram Davidson's opus
Phoenix and the Mirror and it's sequels Vergil in Averno, and
The Scarlet Fig. You could go all Xena and mix the two settings wildly together. But it your game. Get weird!