In theory this week but next two days I will be traveling so nothing for now, and for those wondering also nothing yet for the Prussia of the South.
Solis Invicti et Manus ad Ferrum
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In theory this week but next two days I will be traveling so nothing for now, and for those wondering also nothing yet for the Prussia of the South.
Chapter 4
(I was definitely not being lazy on writing the update ok?)
Rome, the Queen of Cities. Rome, the Mother of my Empire. Rome, the City of the Worlds Desire. Rome, the greatest hive of scum in this world.
If one can places himself, on the top of any of the five hills of the city, and throws a rock, then he is bound to hit a hypocrite and a corrupt, and if Fortuna bless him on that day, he might even hit a future traitor.
Still no other place on the Imperium, is as dear to me as Rome, not even the place where I was born, after all I can't, really hold dear to what the barbarians burned to the ground; When I left for war, the Senate laugh at me for placing my wife, my sweet Ulpia, at the helm of them.
"How can a poor, weak woman understand the complicated webs of politics?" they muttered, while claiming I had been either been bewitched, by her, or that I had lost my mind. Thanks for me, my Ulpia was. and would never. be either poor or weak and those bastards, learned that the hard way.
When I came back. there was no more muttering, no more underestimating my wife. The Senate came to greet me and in front of them, leading, was Ulpia and next to her was my daughter, Aureliana.
I admit, that, seeing my family. after years of campaigning all over the Imperium, is an unique experience, for I felt both, joy in seeing my how much my girl had grown up, but the loss of those years placed a great height on me. On that moment I understood what Tantalus felt, I could see the fruits, but they had eluded me, on all those years. But no more of that, for now.
The Imperium was at peace, the Persians were embroiled in war between themselves, the Danube and the Rhine were at peace, and for a miracle the African barbarians, had decided to leave my provinces alone.
So, I spent the next, four years in Rome.
Those were blessed years for me. I spent days playing my daughter, while at the same time I was administrating the Imperium with my wife at my side. There were days, when I would just ride off from Rome, to the countryside for a week or more, all by myself, so that I wouldn't forget my roots, so that I wouldn't forget that it was hard, honest, work that gained me the Imperium. Unlike other Emperors, I had someone in Rome that I could trust, so that I could do my little escapades. Once, when I returned from a two week long retire from Rome, I found out that Ulpia had discovered about a Senatorial conspiracy, to murder me, poor fools should had learned. As the good wife she is, instead of waiting for my orders, she just ordered the Preatorians to gather them up and to use them as Circus props on the next Games.
It was during this years, that Ulpia, sweet Ulpia, have me a son and heir, who I named Marcus Domitius Aurelianus in honor of my good friend, and my predecesor, Marcus Claudius.
Now, on my twilight years, I think back to those days and it looks like I was on Elysium. But, unlike on the Elysian fields, those days are but memories now, warm memories on a dark and cold world; and they were ephemeral and a lie, for the Imperium was born out of struggle and it can't stay in peace for a long time, for the Gods will never allow the Sons of Romulus to become indolent again.
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Rome, the Queen of Cities. Rome, the Mother of my Empire. Rome, the City of the Worlds Desire. Rome, the greatest hive of scum in this world.
If one can places himself, on the top of any of the five hills of the city, and throws a rock, then he is bound to hit a hypocrite and a corrupt, and if Fortuna bless him on that day, he might even hit a future traitor.
Still no other place on the Imperium, is as dear to me as Rome, not even the place where I was born, after all I can't, really hold dear to what the barbarians burned to the ground; When I left for war, the Senate laugh at me for placing my wife, my sweet Ulpia, at the helm of them.
"How can a poor, weak woman understand the complicated webs of politics?" they muttered, while claiming I had been either been bewitched, by her, or that I had lost my mind. Thanks for me, my Ulpia was. and would never. be either poor or weak and those bastards, learned that the hard way.
When I came back. there was no more muttering, no more underestimating my wife. The Senate came to greet me and in front of them, leading, was Ulpia and next to her was my daughter, Aureliana.
I admit, that, seeing my family. after years of campaigning all over the Imperium, is an unique experience, for I felt both, joy in seeing my how much my girl had grown up, but the loss of those years placed a great height on me. On that moment I understood what Tantalus felt, I could see the fruits, but they had eluded me, on all those years. But no more of that, for now.
The Imperium was at peace, the Persians were embroiled in war between themselves, the Danube and the Rhine were at peace, and for a miracle the African barbarians, had decided to leave my provinces alone.
So, I spent the next, four years in Rome.
Those were blessed years for me. I spent days playing my daughter, while at the same time I was administrating the Imperium with my wife at my side. There were days, when I would just ride off from Rome, to the countryside for a week or more, all by myself, so that I wouldn't forget my roots, so that I wouldn't forget that it was hard, honest, work that gained me the Imperium. Unlike other Emperors, I had someone in Rome that I could trust, so that I could do my little escapades. Once, when I returned from a two week long retire from Rome, I found out that Ulpia had discovered about a Senatorial conspiracy, to murder me, poor fools should had learned. As the good wife she is, instead of waiting for my orders, she just ordered the Preatorians to gather them up and to use them as Circus props on the next Games.
It was during this years, that Ulpia, sweet Ulpia, have me a son and heir, who I named Marcus Domitius Aurelianus in honor of my good friend, and my predecesor, Marcus Claudius.
Now, on my twilight years, I think back to those days and it looks like I was on Elysium. But, unlike on the Elysian fields, those days are but memories now, warm memories on a dark and cold world; and they were ephemeral and a lie, for the Imperium was born out of struggle and it can't stay in peace for a long time, for the Gods will never allow the Sons of Romulus to become indolent again.
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Yaasssss 
I don't have much to materially add at this point, but hoping to see how this all goes down.
Shouldn't he name his child Caesar? Jumping straight to Augustus seems a little presumptuous, even for TTL!Aurelian.
I don't have much to materially add at this point, but hoping to see how this all goes down.
Shouldn't he name his child Caesar? Jumping straight to Augustus seems a little presumptuous, even for TTL!Aurelian.
Yaasssss
I don't have much to materially add at this point, but hoping to see how this all goes down.
Shouldn't he name his child Caesar? Jumping straight to Augustus seems a little presumptuous, even for TTL!Aurelian.
Shit...my mistake I was just doing copy past from Aurelian's name and I didn't even noticed that I had written Augustus. Thanks for the warning Colton.
Wait isn't ulipa supposed to be arulians age? He died at 60. How can she have a kid now?
We know almost anything about her, so I analyzed what we know. She married him during Gallienus single reign, so he would be on his fifties, and gave him a daughter so I guess she would be on her middle or late twenty, maybe even early thirties, when they married probably making her some twenty years his junior, so using this she could have a kid.
