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Is he a ray of hope or minister of death?","description_bbcode_parsed":"The death of Julius Cesar sets off a time of Chaos in Rome until a white wolf appears. Is he a ray of hope or minister of death?","writing":" Williamus had indeed turned against Cesar, the brutal proof was made more clear when the young Graylus returned to Rome and held up the blood soaked and abused body of Cassiopia before the throngs in the forum declaring once again that the foxes were engaged in witchcraft and magic potions trying to overthrow the eternal city and its’ citizens. He cut off the white fox queens tail and threw her remains to the crowd to be torn apart among themselves as a sickening trophy.\n\n Haroldius Augustinian Graylus Immediately invoked emergency powers and seeing that his son was the most able and senior military officer in Rome...for the past years of turmoil had killed off a cream topping of military talent, Williamus was named the title of Grand Counsel General of the Legions. The powers of the Senate were forever altered, reduced to working only the affairs of the city. Haroldius Augustinian Graylus declared himself supreme ruler and took the title of Cesar for himself, becoming Cesar Augustus. His first move….to hunt down and punish every last Cesarian supporter of Julius Cesar and send the Roman Navy and three heavy legions to Minotia to…..as he put it….wipe the tail hole of the world clean of retched red bushy tailed bastards.\n\n Yet two things erupted to stop Augustus in his tracks. Cesarian supporters attacked the naval yard and the naval boat yard, burning and sinking the Navy’s wooden ships and destroying the boat building yard. Wide spread desertions and acts of dissent sprang up within the legions that took another year to quell. And as if things could not get worse...a plague of rabies swept through Rome. Only by keeping three legions far beyond the city was the threat of attack from some as yet undiscovered enemy prevented while thousands of prey and predators suffered or were forced to be killed when they were beyond hope. Tragically...word reached both Augustus and Williamus of the death of their son and brother Alexander who had only joined the legions himself as a young recruit. Ravaged by the disease, the last time Alexander was seen he was foaming at the mouth and dragging his screaming slave towards a cliff overlooking the Tyber River. For Williamus the loss was devastating made more painful by his father’s absolute callousness. “I can always have another son, little loss.” Augustus is written to have said.\n\n The reign of Augustus marked the end of the Roman Republic in spirit and physicality. From here on would come the Cesars to the end. Ten would rule over Rome until first she broke in half, then she died. Yet each of these maximum leaders would leave something to be praised while leaving much to be reviled, save two of them and one would be a surprise no one in Rome saw coming.\n\n Augustus would reign for the next 16 years and yet his plans for Minotia would escape him. He dies in his bed after declaring Williamus his successor. Yet Williamus does something totally unexpected the day after his father dies, He calls for a general election after telling the Senate…\n\n[i]”I’m more a soldier than a bureaucrat, just make sure you find a good bureaucrat because I don’t want to be a bad soldier.”[/i]\n\n In a stunning shock...the next Cesar is not a wolf...but a lion. Cesar Africanus was a well respected jurist and legal-mammal whom the plebes believed was the hope for great reform. Over his 18 year reign...Africanus does reform the criminal justice system, the tort system, even showing some grace for slaves by ordering a two day mandatory period of rest and institutes laws to reduce the brutality in the corporal punishments the slaves are exposed too. However...He orders the building of a grand new coliseum where predators deemed criminals, innocent or not, and pray animals are thrown before throngs to fight each other or be executed in gruesome spectacles. From this comes the second slave revolt led by a black panther named Spartigira which becomes the most dire threat to Rome since the first Tusker war. Once again, Rome turns to it’s senior warrior, Williamus Graylus and in the resulting bloody meylee with Spartigira...Graylus is killed. Spartigira is wounded by arrows in his legs and is taken prisoner.\n\n The revolt comes at the worst possible moment for Rome. With legions scattered about the great expanse of the empire, the city is ripe for invasion and invasion comes from the sea. In the middle of the night a fleet of war galleys’ land on the shores of what is now Sahara Square beach. The invasion force rolls over a lightly garrisoned Legionnaire outpost west of Rome yet spares most of the troops inside who look upon the leader of this incursion force with quaking fear. He is a tall white wolf...with a thick and bushy foxes tail. He is Cessai, Son of Cesar and Cassiopeia who has returned to claim his birthright to Rome. He has also brought something the Romans are not used to fighting...horse mounted mobile cavalry….with riding foxes. It is the Minotian cavalry and they make their presence unmistakable when they speed past the gates of Rome and cut down the guards with arrows shot on the run as the Foxes stand on their horse’s backs.\n\n Africanus sends heralds racing from the city to recall the far flung legions to aid the capital city, the closest legion being that of the wolf vice counsel Restitutus (The 14th heavy legion) less than 20 miles from Rome. Until the fourteenth can arrive, Africanus mobilizes the Pretorian Guards Legion and stacks it with retired veterans, even predator slaves and prisoners. Yet when he calls for the wounded Spartagira, offering him clemency in return for his help….Spartagira replies. “The demon of hell is at your door. Perhaps it is not me who should be bowing?”\n\n Two days later, the Praetorian Guard and Cessai’s force meet out on the fields of Particula (South of Rome which is now Southeast Savana Central) and crash into each other in brutal hand to hand combat while the Minotian cavalry races into, out and around the battle picking off Roman soldiers at will. At one point the Pretorian Guards rally, successfully driving the Minotian cavalry from the field. If the fourteenth legion would show up, victory would surely be in the paws of Rome.\n\n Sure enough….the flying standards of the fourteeth legion come over a rise in the hill covered ground of the battlefield and the Pretorian Guard surges in a charge against the weakening line of the Minotian infantry. The Writer Scinectarus…\n\n[i] The Pretorian Guards surge forwards assured that their brothers of the fourteenth would crash into the line of filthy foxes and put those devils to flight. But as some of them watched the fourteenth thunder closer...their standard bearers suddenly threw their flags away, pulled out their Gladius swords and followed after their leader on horseback who screamed out as he waved his own sword…[/i]\n\n FOR CESSAI! FOR THE STATE! FOR THE CITIZENS! KILL THEM IF THEY REFUSE TO SURRENDER!”\n\n It was Alexander Graylus, once believed to be dead, leading a charge of Cesarian loyalists who had escaped his own father’s treachery. His legion slammed into the Praetorian Guards and they simply melted like wax under hot blades. Africanus and Rome were at the mercy of these new invaders and all expected a gruesome spilling of blood.\n\n[b]Next: The Fox tailed Wolf and the prophet of peace and doom. [/b]","writing_bbcode_parsed":" Williamus had indeed turned against Cesar, the brutal proof was made more clear when the young Graylus returned to Rome and held up the blood soaked and abused body of Cassiopia before the throngs in the forum declaring once again that the foxes were engaged in witchcraft and magic potions trying to overthrow the eternal city and its’ citizens. He cut off the white fox queens tail and threw her remains to the crowd to be torn apart among themselves as a sickening trophy.
Haroldius Augustinian Graylus Immediately invoked emergency powers and seeing that his son was the most able and senior military officer in Rome...for the past years of turmoil had killed off a cream topping of military talent, Williamus was named the title of Grand Counsel General of the Legions. The powers of the Senate were forever altered, reduced to working only the affairs of the city. Haroldius Augustinian Graylus declared himself supreme ruler and took the title of Cesar for himself, becoming Cesar Augustus. His first move….to hunt down and punish every last Cesarian supporter of Julius Cesar and send the Roman Navy and three heavy legions to Minotia to…..as he put it….wipe the tail hole of the world clean of retched red bushy tailed bastards.
Yet two things erupted to stop Augustus in his tracks. Cesarian supporters attacked the naval yard and the naval boat yard, burning and sinking the Navy’s wooden ships and destroying the boat building yard. Wide spread desertions and acts of dissent sprang up within the legions that took another year to quell. And as if things could not get worse...a plague of rabies swept through Rome. Only by keeping three legions far beyond the city was the threat of attack from some as yet undiscovered enemy prevented while thousands of prey and predators suffered or were forced to be killed when they were beyond hope. Tragically...word reached both Augustus and Williamus of the death of their son and brother Alexander who had only joined the legions himself as a young recruit. Ravaged by the disease, the last time Alexander was seen he was foaming at the mouth and dragging his screaming slave towards a cliff overlooking the Tyber River. For Williamus the loss was devastating made more painful by his father’s absolute callousness. “I can always have another son, little loss.” Augustus is written to have said.
The reign of Augustus marked the end of the Roman Republic in spirit and physicality. From here on would come the Cesars to the end. Ten would rule over Rome until first she broke in half, then she died. Yet each of these maximum leaders would leave something to be praised while leaving much to be reviled, save two of them and one would be a surprise no one in Rome saw coming.
Augustus would reign for the next 16 years and yet his plans for Minotia would escape him. He dies in his bed after declaring Williamus his successor. Yet Williamus does something totally unexpected the day after his father dies, He calls for a general election after telling the Senate…
”I’m more a soldier than a bureaucrat, just make sure you find a good bureaucrat because I don’t want to be a bad soldier.”
In a stunning shock...the next Cesar is not a wolf...but a lion. Cesar Africanus was a well respected jurist and legal-mammal whom the plebes believed was the hope for great reform. Over his 18 year reign...Africanus does reform the criminal justice system, the tort system, even showing some grace for slaves by ordering a two day mandatory period of rest and institutes laws to reduce the brutality in the corporal punishments the slaves are exposed too. However...He orders the building of a grand new coliseum where predators deemed criminals, innocent or not, and pray animals are thrown before throngs to fight each other or be executed in gruesome spectacles. From this comes the second slave revolt led by a black panther named Spartigira which becomes the most dire threat to Rome since the first Tusker war. Once again, Rome turns to it’s senior warrior, Williamus Graylus and in the resulting bloody meylee with Spartigira...Graylus is killed. Spartigira is wounded by arrows in his legs and is taken prisoner.
The revolt comes at the worst possible moment for Rome. With legions scattered about the great expanse of the empire, the city is ripe for invasion and invasion comes from the sea. In the middle of the night a fleet of war galleys’ land on the shores of what is now Sahara Square beach. The invasion force rolls over a lightly garrisoned Legionnaire outpost west of Rome yet spares most of the troops inside who look upon the leader of this incursion force with quaking fear. He is a tall white wolf...with a thick and bushy foxes tail. He is Cessai, Son of Cesar and Cassiopeia who has returned to claim his birthright to Rome. He has also brought something the Romans are not used to fighting...horse mounted mobile cavalry….with riding foxes. It is the Minotian cavalry and they make their presence unmistakable when they speed past the gates of Rome and cut down the guards with arrows shot on the run as the Foxes stand on their horse’s backs.
Africanus sends heralds racing from the city to recall the far flung legions to aid the capital city, the closest legion being that of the wolf vice counsel Restitutus (The 14th heavy legion) less than 20 miles from Rome. Until the fourteenth can arrive, Africanus mobilizes the Pretorian Guards Legion and stacks it with retired veterans, even predator slaves and prisoners. Yet when he calls for the wounded Spartagira, offering him clemency in return for his help….Spartagira replies. “The demon of hell is at your door. Perhaps it is not me who should be bowing?”
Two days later, the Praetorian Guard and Cessai’s force meet out on the fields of Particula (South of Rome which is now Southeast Savana Central) and crash into each other in brutal hand to hand combat while the Minotian cavalry races into, out and around the battle picking off Roman soldiers at will. At one point the Pretorian Guards rally, successfully driving the Minotian cavalry from the field. If the fourteenth legion would show up, victory would surely be in the paws of Rome.
Sure enough….the flying standards of the fourteeth legion come over a rise in the hill covered ground of the battlefield and the Pretorian Guard surges in a charge against the weakening line of the Minotian infantry. The Writer Scinectarus…
The Pretorian Guards surge forwards assured that their brothers of the fourteenth would crash into the line of filthy foxes and put those devils to flight. But as some of them watched the fourteenth thunder closer...their standard bearers suddenly threw their flags away, pulled out their Gladius swords and followed after their leader on horseback who screamed out as he waved his own sword…
FOR CESSAI! FOR THE STATE! FOR THE CITIZENS! KILL THEM IF THEY REFUSE TO SURRENDER!”
It was Alexander Graylus, once believed to be dead, leading a charge of Cesarian loyalists who had escaped his own father’s treachery. His legion slammed into the Praetorian Guards and they simply melted like wax under hot blades. Africanus and Rome were at the mercy of these new invaders and all expected a gruesome spilling of blood.
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