52 Results with the "Historical" genre
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Roman Friends and Countrymen
Gaius Planus CaesarAge 29 | He/Him | Roman Planus is a decurio in the Legio X Equestri, an engineer and scribe born of the Julii in Rome but raised in Comum (modern day Como). He is a childhood friend of Skipio. A man lover like Skipio, he is in love with a Gaul named Welletrix. Crassus Titus FlaviusAge 30 | He/Him | Roman Titus is a decurio in the Legio X Equestri, an archer and accountant born to the timber wealthy Flavii of Novum Comum (modern day Como). He is a childhood…-
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Nikonidas Orobius
Nikonidas OrobiusAge 27 | He/Him | Greco-Roman Niko was born in the Lepontine Alps just north of the Lario (modern Lake Como). He is the surviving son of a freedman employed to cook at Villa Servi. He resides where he grew up, in an apartment over the villa stores, and is the current head of the kitchen. He hasn't spoken since he was a teen, after his mother's death in childbirth and his father's passing from…-
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Luna, a War Horse
Luna Age 6 (24 human years) | She/her | Barb Horse Luna was born on the Servii plantation to a broodmare from Northern Africa when her owner, Scipio Servius, was five years old. After he left for schooling, Vitus Servius trained her to be a war horse and at age 3, she reunited with Skipio (then nineteen) to serve with him in the Legion Equestrian corps. After arriving in Britannia, she is stolen by Aedan the Ancalite and renamed…-
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Lucius Scipio Servius
Lucius Scipio ServiusAge 29 | He/Him | Roman Skipio is a decurio in the Legio X Equestri, a swordsman antesignani serving in the Gallic Wars. Skipio is an architect and heir to the Servii plantation in the Lepontine Alps just north of the Lario (modern Lake Como). He is known for his exclusive taste in men, and his penchant for consensual…-
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Lucia Vita Servia
Lucia Vita ServiaAge 25 | She/Her | Roman Vita is the unwed daughter of Scipia Lucia Servia and the sister of Skipio, born in the Lepontine Alps just north of the Lario (modern Lake Como). She is procurator of Servio Poma et Pira, the family business of apples and pears, fruit wine, and seasonal walnuts. Due to past trauma, she struggles with her brother's consensual violent romance with his Aedan, his…-
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IX – The Slaughter Arena
This violent summer is the hottest in memory. Bitch Face, the pretty Roman, covers the dead farmer and her children while his brothers hack away at her barley field. He casts an anxious gaze across the field at the forest. Deep within the trees, Aedan the Owl squats on a high branch, his foot rising so his toe can scratch the itch behind his ear. He watches Bitch Face, whose rage over a slaughtered lover burns hot, and grins. This rare show of emotion unsettles his cadre of most loyal, awaiting him…-
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IV
Haze shrouds a sea that blazes silver beneath the midday sun. Silhouettes appear on the horizon, five, then ten, until there are too many ships to count. Tribal leaders who fled the mainland arrived on their island, recounting Prince Mandubracius and his pact with the Roman battle king, Kaiser. Fresh from the fight, they spoke of warlord Dumnorix ambushing the Romans with a concealed fleet. Alas, it’s now clear that Dumnorix is as dead as his fleet. The brutish driver grunts. Stocky, with brawn…-
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Roman victory kills more than those on the battlefield. Like locusts, the legions consume everything. No farm provides a haven to the starving, not with crops stolen and livestock slaughtered. The forest is gone, its slender boughs fueling barracks stoves, and its stoutest trunks now backbones for Caesar’s new fleet. Longhouses stretch across the white expanse. Half-built ships line the shore for miles. Skipio’s boots crunch over snow as frigid air lashes his wool pants. An irksome beard shields his…-
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II
His life is defined by how much pain he brings his mother. Twenty-two years ago, she left her princely father’s house for a different life with a coastal Ancalite named Fintan. Despite his druidic prowess, Fintan never suspected she was already caught. Her pains began on the autumnal, and her unborn babe insisted on coming out ass first. The old druidess cut her belly—a trauma that Ciniod’s mother mentions whenever she must force a fart. Aedan the Ancalite is bony, with alabaster skin and a…-
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His name is Scipio Servius Lucius, or Skipio to those who call him a friend. He stands taller than most, with a powerful build, a sharply carved face, and a compelling mouth that no man resists. His shorn head gleams like ripe wheat, while his dark, moss-green eyes run deep. Vitus Servius, Skipio’s father, is bald like his son. A burly patrician, he owns a profitable apple and pear orchard and a thriving walnut grove near the Alps. His only son eagerly trades farm life for the sword, and Vitus allows…-
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