7AD
Rome
The House of Sulla
The fame, and wealth, of the Sulla family were well known. As was Gaius Cornelius Sulla’s reputation of being a conservative traditionalist. A fierce true Roman, as he called himself. One who did not tolerate fools or incompetents. Decimus knew the family well enough. Twice he had served as a centurions in one of Sulla’s legions and knew, from personal experience, how garrulous the patriarch could be.
true Roman, Pride and garrulousness ran in the family. Ninety years earlier, Sulla’s ancestor, Lucius Cornelius Sulla burst onto the political stage of the Roman Senate in all his terrible fury. Roman history was a long trail of bloody rage perpetrated by arrogant, and many times, quite insane dictators. Filled with war, strife, revenge and retribution. And in
