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Concerning gladiators:

I was handed out the commission of Belisar, the Doux of Syrome (One of the islands), basically the hypercompetent chancellor to incompetent king Orso of Tautum. Tautum itself doesn't have proper gladiatorial combat beyond the private audience of the king, though it has a lot of rabble street-fighting and ad-hoc gladiator-esque fighting. Syrome is the Tautom!lite, more organised and imperialistic half-brother of Tautum due its closer cultural loyalty to Heavenly Kingdom traditions/beliefs, as the actual 'true' Not!Romans. Syrome still practices genuine gladiatorial combat, arena and all.