Wanderer of Rome

146 B.C.E. saw the end of one of the most vicious wars in history, Incompetent generals that wasted soldiers in useless battles, entire nations spending themselves into poverty from the cost of bearing the war, and the lack of differentiation made between citizens and combatants gave the ancient struggle much similarity to some of our modern slaughterfests.

At the end of the strife, one of the great Domains of the time, once ruler of the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, was utterly destroyed, and with the attempt by the victor to erase even the memory of their foe from the scrolls of history.

And, as at the end of all wars - once the celebrations of victory were completed, the soldiers that survived the conflagration were cast loose to make their own way, and with most having no skills but that learned in the years of war - those of fighting and savagery.

One such soldier, with more skill than his comrades - or perhaps, more fortunate than most - found himself standing on the shores of a far land, with neither purpose or desire to return to his birth-city of Rome.

As such, he was as a falling leaf, to be blown here and there at the whim of the winds...


Genre: Historical