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The year is 88 bc. The Roman Republic is in crisis and it's two greatest generals, Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius, now openly war with each other. In this time of war and strife, a few lucky souls will make their mark in history.
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Its sooo good to be back here at this website. Heres a character sheet example.

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I'll have my own character up in a little bit. Sorry if its light on the details, but I know that people really want to get started. Have Fun.
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Name: This will require some research.
Age: 33
Race: Greek
Class: High (This may be edited)
Occupation: Oracle
Appearance: He is a very skinny man with a bald head and many wrinkles. He wears a traditional robe and carries around a walking stick.
Personality:
Backstory: He was born to a Greek family in 121 B.C. But was sent away to Roman family to learn their religious practices. When he was 13 he began to display profound knowledge he beloved was given to him by the gods. From then on he was hailed as an Oracle (technically the Romans had a different name for Oracles but we'll keep Oracle for simplicity's sake.) and was brought to lie in a temple.

Notes: I'm not done with this yet. I'm gonna do some research when I get home. But as far as the role of the character I was thinking he would just provide the party with knowledge of some kind of quest.
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Name: Quintus Metellus Scipio
Age: 25
Race: Roman
Class: Patrician
Occupation: Tribune of Legio VI Ferrata.
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Personality: Loyal, stubborn, Introverted
Backstory: The second son of a wealthy Roman family, Quintus was often considered the runt of his family. His older brother Gaius is set to inherit all of the family wealth and property, leaving Quintus with a choice, join the army or starve. Since then, he has earned the respect of the men both over and under him.
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Name:
Theron Parmenion

Age:
35

Race:
Human? Greek? Caucasian

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Spymaster

Occupation:
Businessman

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Not a very tall man, and not very muscular, he has exuded confidence and charisma from a very young age. His hair allowed to grow stylishly long, and his face clean-shaved except for a dark goatee, which he thinks adds to something in his appearance. While not a very large and muscled man, he hired a group of warriors, gladiators and fighting experts to train him in the fighting arts, to great effect.

Personality:
There have been many words to describe this one man, but few hit closer to the mark than cold. Indeed, icy. He cares not for the troubles of others, his mind occupied with more important things. Intensely intelligent, with eyes that see more than they had the right to into the hearts and minds of the people around him, slippery and hard to read are also apt words for this man, as he is a proficient actor, never saying what he means, and not always meaning what he says.

Backstory:
Born to a lowly Athenian accountant of good name, married to an equally lowly woman of equally good name, hired in service of a rich and powerful Athenian official, they expected their son to walk in their footsteps, growing rich one day as the Roman empire made trade prosperous and safer than it used to be. But they had little mind as to what their child was truly capable of. Almost emotionless, he sometimes startled his tutors with just how intelligent he was, learning to read, write and do maths at a very young age. However, growing up, playing with the children of the rich official, he knew by the time that he was 5 that he wasn't going to be an accountant. He was going to be a nobleman.

Learning as much as he could, without letting on that he was learning, of course, from the official, he had a good grasp on how the politics worked in this day and age, and he got to work. At the age of twelve, he discovered that the official was stealing tax money each year to pay for lavish gifts to a mistress that lived nearby, as well as to secretly frequent a brothel in the city. He brought this information to the man, telling him that if he did not increase his father's pay dramatically, as well as take him on as an apprentice, information on his embezzling would regrettably reach the ears of the men that oversaw the tax collections in Rome.

And that was how he started. By the time that he was 18 years of age, he already owned a small shipping company out of Athens. Using his skills and a rapidly growing information network, he blackmailed a Roman officer to give his ships an escort on their way to Egypt, Palestine and, more importantly, Rome, while his competitors found themselves falling on very hard times, with ships being lost in storms, to pirate attacks and other such excuses.

His growing influence allowed him to purchase his Roman Citizenship, and he moved himself, and his base of operations out of Athens to Rome. His growing influence made him quite welcome there, his businesses growing to something of a monopoly over the Mediterranean, and his informers everywhere, whispering every dark secret that there was to know in every major city. A man to be feared, and never trusted.
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Actually im going to have to withdraw. I'm already feeling reluctance to finish...good luck!
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My spot for my CS. Late tonight hopefully!
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I'm here!
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Name: Laleh Pahlavi

Age: 23

Race: Parthia

Class: Warrior – Middle Class

Occupation: None, she is a rebel of sorts now

Personality: Laleh at one time was quite an extrovert, but with the events of the past few years, she’s learned to keep to herself and trust no one. She is aggressive and quite confident in herself and her abilities to conquer the world if necessary. She looks everyone in the eye and never backs down from anything, quite often finds herself as the instigator even in a time when women were to be seen and not heard.

Backstory: Being raised by her single father general, Laleh had a good, healthy and wealthy childhood. She was always a bit of a tomboy due to the lack of female influence in her home. Her father was often gone at war and some of this lesser expeditions she was able to go and stay at the base camp. Unfortunately when war was brought to their doorstep in Rome’s latest attempt to take over the Parthia, her father’s men didn’t fare so well. The battle was theirs, but the costs were steep. Her father lost his life and at the age of twenty one she was alone in the vastness that was Persia.

Not knowing what else to do, she sold their large home and moved into something much smaller, paying a few of her father’s soldiers to train her in the art of combat and help hone her body for the journey ahead. Revenge was her destination and the need for it almost consumed all that was once good in her. She’s worked for two years and then began to make her way to Rome, her cover one of a lady of wealth from a foreign country and the city of Rome would welcome her like the whore it was.

Anything else you would like to add: She keeps to daggers on her at all times, one strapped to the outside of her thigh on either side. A long tattoo runs down her shapely back that spells out freedom and honor in her native tongue.
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All accepted so far. I just want a few more people then we can get started.
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Name: Gnaeus Fabius Quinti f. Quinti n. Pictor
Age: Triginta (30)
Ethnicity: Romanus
Class: Nobilis (Optimates)
Occupation: Qaestor Classicus
Appearance: Average height (for a Roman in this time period), dark hair,
Personality: Gnaeus Fabius Pictor could be described as an almost perfect image of Romanitas. However, does his personality belong to a time long past?
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Gnaeus Fabius Pictor was born to Quintus Fabius f. Quinti n. Quinti. Pictor and Cornelia f. Gnaei n. Marci in 635 A.U.C. (118 B.C.E.). Once he had come of age in 653 (100 B.C.E.), Pictor started his military service so that he might begin his political career in the cursus honorum. Gn. Fabius Pictor served in the military for 12 years, until 665 A.U.C. (88 B.C.E.). During this career, the main highlight of his career was the Social War (91-88), where he served under Lucius Cornelius Sulla. After the Romans had pacified their Italian allies, Gnaeus Fabius Pictor was elected to the position of Qaestor Classicus, doubtfully with the aid of Sulla, the recently elected Consul. As Quaestor Classicus, Pictor was supposed to accompany Sulla’s Consular army that was heading to oppose Mithridates; however, Gaius Marius was reappointed as the head of the army against Mithridates with the aid of a Tribune of the People. Will Pictor accompany Sulla back to Rome to uphold Sulla’s right to lead the army as Consul, or will he protest the impious action of marching a Roman army against Rome herself.

Gnaeus Fabius Pictor was extremely well educated, being fluent in Greek, having studied in Athens prior to his military career. He also enjoys penning Greek poetry. In 663 A.U.C. (90 B.C.E.), Pictor married the young daughter of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, Cornelia. While Pictor is a supportive husband, he has had a long and well-developed relationship with one of his slaves, Cynthia, whom he had inherited from his father. During his youth, he and his father, Quintus Fabius Pictor, bought a slavewoman and her daughter, who was just a year younger than Gnaeus Fabius Pictor. The slave dealer they were Amazons, but the elder Fabius doubted it. Nevertheless, Quintus Fabius Pictor purchased the two slaves.
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Hey you - how many more people are you looking for before we kick this thing off? :)

Hello peeps!!
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I was trying to wait for one more, but Ill start working on the first post as soon as I can.
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Well, I'm almost done with my CS. Give me a few more hours or so. ( I can't finish my CS because of my dad coming over, you can start without me then I'll hope in).
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Sounds great. :)
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Awesome. Soon we will get this started.
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Sorry if it seems like its taking a while to get started. I work a 10 hour shift.
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Nobodyman123 said
Sorry if it seems like its taking a while to get started. I work a 10 hour shift.


No problem.
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And I'm back. I'll hammer this thing out now.
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Dammit guys I'm sorry. I have writers block something bad right now.
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No worries. Take your time and post up when ready. :)
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