Sadly he died here in Eburicum with his task still unfinished, succumbing not to the barbarians, but to some malaise brought on by our cold and wet climate. The Emperor Septimus came to Britannia to push back the Barbarians and reclaim the wall of Hadrian. I can trace my own family line back 200 years to the last days of the great Emperor Septimus, and yet it is still insufficient for this puny nobility to accept me as one of their own. They ape the manners of Italia while at the same time showing their contempt for its rulers. The aristocracy are of local descent, degenerate progeny of the warriors who fell before the Emperor Claudius in the first days of Empire. As a result we now live in a province peopled disproportionately by the descendents of the cowardly, the criminal and the lame. Every time a new pretender for Emperor is declared, he takes the treasure and young men of this land and neither are ever seen here again.

I shall emulate him, those in Britannia who have thwarted me shall be pressed into the mud beneath my sandals and my spatha will render their bodies as empty of blood as they are now of morals.īritannia is a poisonous place (I should know as I have lived all of my life here). My ancestor Septimus Severus conquered Rome by force as an honest soldier, he never stooped to the lies, betrayals and plots of the decadent patricians. They do not recognise my worth, seeing only the Berber (or possibly Pictish) cast of my features and the perceived illegitimacy of my lineage.

It will not be the love of the people that propels me to my appointed station, the folk here in Britannia are narrow-minded, self-serving, bigoted and cowardly.

I will take this corrupt and diminished Empire of the West and help to raise it up again to its former glory. I am no ordinary man, for I am of a line of Emperors of Rome and perhaps someday I too will become Emperor in my turn. I am Octavius Severus Alexander, and let it be known that I am destined to follow my ancestors on the road to greatness.

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