A simplistic review of Zootopian History with Focus on the Lupinian Roman Empire as written by Doctor Emeritus Lulow Mandemus. Dean of the University of Zootopia.
Written by Dan 1966 as a prelude to “Lupis Gloria Romani” by Ademi and Dan 1966
Part 2
LUPINIAN ROME and the Common Middle Age
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Our society today in Zootopia owes many things to the Middle age wolfen society known as “Lupinian Romana” or “Wolfen Rome”. Today, every wolf in Zootopia can trace their linage back to this powerful nation state which at the height of his power dominated all of the land we call Zootopia today. Wolves take pride in believing that our modern Fleet Marine Force is decedent of the great “Populare Legonus Roma” or “Army of the citizens of Rome” the powerful legions which transformed a small confederation of cast off rabble and dreg wolves into the colossal juggernaut of our Middle Age. Zootopia contains much of good advances developed by the Roman state. Finance, Government, commerce, construction, law being among the few lessons taken. But as with empires, there is great good shrouded by much great evil. Among that evil being an institution of brutal slavery and cruelty...no greater example of that cruelty than in the arena where predator and pray alike were sacrificed and torn apart for the amusement of the Roman state. Many prey species were on the verge of extinction by the time Rome fell from its’ own success.
The birth of the Roman State: A coffee cup of fact and fiction
The exact historical details of the birth of the Roman Empire are lost to us. Much of this depravity of information is due to the many fires both physical and political that swept Rome during her history. The great library of Thesius Marnah, the glory of Roman education and knowledge, was itself destroyed during the third Roman Civil War and thus with it all traces of information concerning the founding of the settlement on the River Tyber and the exact dates.
What we have about the founding comes from oral history passed from Wolf to cubs and as with such history, distortion and myth mixes with the physical and produces an entertaining and bizarre soup. If you dislike the lentil beans in this soup, you are left to pick them out and digest the remaining hearth. Yet according to the oral traditions of the wolves, this is the story of the founding of Rome….
Long ago there was a female wolf named Drusella and among young female wolves, there was none that could match her in beauty or love. Her coat was said to be the shiniest, softest and most fair fur in all the land and every male wolf was smitten to vicious and bitter fights over the right to have her as his mate.
Drusella was the daughter of Heckula, the leader of the powerful Italoni wolf pack who dominated the Tyber Plain. One day, Heckula proposed an alliance with another equally powerful wolf pack, the Sayoni of the Kuskeni (Kusk-Ken-eye) valley and offered Drusella to be the mate of the Sayoni wolf pack leader’s son, Prince Aluka. Drusella was commanded to remain a virgin for one year and prepare herself to be wedded to the strong and handsome Aluka.
But before the year was over...Drusella was raped by a beast in the forest. The description of this frightening creature over the centuries of wolf tails has bore the descriptive name of “Werewolf”. A sort of hybrid creature best fitting our rated B movies because such a creature could never exist. The beast impregnated Drusella and she was forced to hide the shame of her despoiling until she berthed the filthy results. She bore two strange wolf cubs, calling them Romulus and Remus.
So sickened to have born such abominations to her wolf ancestors, Drusella chose to throw the cubs into the reeds along the banks of the Tyber river and left them to die. Her wailing at this painful choice was said to have shaken the great mountains to their foundations.
It was after Drusella left that another she wolf named Kala came upon the twin cubs and seeing that their mother had not returned, offered them her own teets to suckle and her body to keep them warm. When they had been restored their strength, Kala took the strange wolf cubs back to her own cave and to her mate Atriades (At-tree-ah-dees) and knowing his mate to be barren and incapable of having cubs, took Romulus and Remus into his care as his own sons.
Today, a cave in the highlands of Tundra Town is still considered the sacred home of Romulus and Remus and many wolves make annual pilgrimages to offer flowers and gifts to the pair of adult wolves they consider to be the “sacred parents of wolf culture.”
The twin cubs were indeed strange and different to their adoptive parents. They walked on their hind legs, spoke in a tongue that was strange and yet they could clearly understand their parents and moved and adapted quickly to landscapes wolves would have found impossible to engage. They were also capable of going from their two legged forms with powerful arms and long fingered paws to feral four legged wolves with normal canine paws with amazing speed. They also found that they could wield hand weapons with great ease and dexterity.
The differences between them were obvious. Romulus was hot headed, brutish, aggressive, physically powerful and intimidating while his brother Remus was stronger in his thinking, cautious in his movements and slow to be rash and impetuous. He was also said to be as fair and as beautiful in appearance as his mother and possessed a quick whit and great gift of oratory.
Atriades taught his sons simple virtues which became the basic foundations that led to Roman Law and Roman societal cohesion. As they became teenagers and knowing well that their parents were not their original parents. Romulus and Remus begged the leave of their surrogates so they could seek out their real mother to show her they were alive and to tell her all was forgiven by them for being abandoned so long ago.
After much inquiry however, the brothers learned the horrible truth of their mother’s fate at the hands of the powerful packs, the Italoni and the Sayoni. Accused of being a wretched whore, Drusilla was chased down, torn to shreds and tossed upon an elephant dung heap as waste. The quick to enrage Romulus called upon the Wolfen moon god for vengeance and howled all through the night in mourning until he and his brother awoke to find two swords presented at their paws. Romulus took up his sword and called it “Tam” while his brother took up his sword and called it “Fahr”
Waiting for the right moment as the two wolf packs sat in counsel, Romulus fell upon the Italoni while his brother fell upon the Sayoni. The wolves were no match for the swift, fast morphing powers of the two brothers and the pack’s entire patriarchy including their cub bearing females were slaughtered with zeal and revenge. The brothers wore the skins of the pack fathers for their brutal murder of Drusilla. The remaining wolves were only allowed to live when a youngster begged for their lives. After that day the Sayoni and Italoni packs ceased to exist.
Romulus and Remus then led the survivors back to the cave of their adopted parents where after swearing oaths of allegiance to the brothers...father Atriades taught these young wolves the essence of virtue and law while the brothers taught them their skills of form switching and combat fighting. The young wolves realized that the brutal killing of Drusilla was an illegal act upon an innocent and devoted themselves to serving the brothers in anything they wished to give them fair justice for the brutality visited on their poor mother.
Both brothers decided that they wanted to create a city state to unify all wolves under a single banner, a single voice and a single mind of thought. The brothers led their new pack down into the Tiber River valley to the place where their much loved adopted mother found them and thrust their swords into the mud and soil of the Tyber River bank…
“Let it be here.” Romulus said. “And let it shake the earth with its’ howl.”
That is the mythical founding of Rome.
The rape of the Ituskins. (Eye-Tusk-Skins)
Under Romulus and Remus, the small settlement grew swiftly as the brothers welcomed cast off wolves, vagabond wolves and wolves of ill repute into their gates. They also welcomed escape predators like foxes and weasels who had been slaves of larger mammals. Soon however, the brothers realized a terrifying fact...the population of their settlement was majority male with very few female wolves. It would not possibly survive past a generation. Yet no other large wolf pack around them would allow its’ daughters to mate with such ruffians and briggens. In hasty counsel, the brothers and several of their most trusted confidants came upon a solution. If they could not get brides….they would steal them. So it was that Romulus and Remus crafted a plan to take females from one of the largest and most dangerous packs in ancient Zootopia, The Ituskins.
Under the cover of a festival dedicated to the wolf moon god in which the centerpiece was a large and beautifully prepared and cooked chestnut bull, the Ituskins were encouraged to bring their mates and pups, especially the females to the feast. Lulled by the elegance and beautiful poetry spoken by Remus who’s very charm lay in his own deceptively innocent and sublimely fair beauty as any wolf male could ever be….the paternal line of the Ituskins ate and drank themselves into stupor. Remus slipped from the banquet room, bolted the only escape shut and his brother and several conspirators set themselves upon the Ituskins…..and slaughtered them. They then set upon the female wolves, many of them just coming into pup bearing age and raped them in a night of ravaging lust and orgy.
When the surviving Ituskins found out what had happened, they prepared for war with the aim of annihilating the fledgling Romans. Sadly their planned slaughter would include their own sisters and mothers because of the shame of their despoiling at the hands of the filthy Roman vermin.
The Ituskins took six months to prepare for war but during that time, Remus worked his spell binding skills of voice and oratory upon the Ituskin females as he had done on their fathers. Telling them of how devastated and low the Roman males felt about their crimes and how they brutalized the innocent female wolves. He told them with sweetness and kindness that the males would spend the rest of their days ensuring the females needed nothing nor would have worry for nothing. That the males would serve their every whim and fill their every desire. He even promised them glorious emancipation and the right to share every bit in decisions and powers of state and household if they would forgive the males for their criminal acts and accept them as their devoted slaves. His delivery of oratory worked.
As the Ituskins closed on the Roman settlement bent on murder, they were met on the trail outside the gates by a solitary young female Ituskin wolf named Caria. In a passionate plea, Caria begged her kinfolk not to slaughter the Romans for the sake of their sisters and mothers.
“Please….do not make us widows and our cubs to die in the cold we beg you. Our mates have done great evil and will spend their lives atoning for it, yet we who are your dear ones will enjoy lives of comfort guarded by strong mates who adore us and are ready to give us the world. Please...if you refuse, you will watch us all throw ourselves into the Tyber river and it will be your names we will curse and haunt for all eternity. Should not all of us be one family? Should not all wolves prosper? Should not the world be ours? Allow us to raise our cubs with this noble ideal. Come and join us and we shall know greater glories on the tips of our paws than our pack would ever know alone.”
Caria’s words stirred the hearts of her brothers. The first to march up to the gate of the city with his paw extended was Mamericus Ituskin. He embraced Romulus with the words “Brother….all is forgiven. Now let us take the world and make it under this banner….”One pack, one paw, one tooth, one world….all ours.” It was truly the moment the Lupinian Roman Empire was whelped onto the world as our ancestors knew it.
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