"It has often been said that history is a series of gambits and ambitions, of men and women seizing the day and driving forth through impossible circumstances to carve works of art, vast political dynasties, and even entire moral and philosophical systems that have affected us for thousands of years, and will no doubt continue to do so.
Whoever first uttered that statement has obviously never experienced history as I have. In the views put hereforth by my ink and hand, I can tell you that history is more often than not being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as I and my dearest friend Tiberius were on the Ides of March, at the battles won by Caesar in Thracia and Dacia, and the succession of his heir, great and noble Pharaoh Caesarion of Egypt. I know this all too well because Tiberius and I were the ones to save Gaius Julius Caesar that fateful day from a traitorous plot among the Senate. And, in the most unflinchingly honest terms, we weren't even trying; in fact, it was a complete accident we were even at the Senate in the first place."
-, A Confession of My Errors
Welcome to The (Mis)Adventures of Gal and Tib, my first attempt at a Roman timeline (and a comical one at that). Obviously, the point of divergence is Julius Caesar's legendary assassination being foiled thanks to happenstance - a pair of praetorian guards, Gallus Titius Mordanticus and Tiberius Pescennius Mauricius, hoping to raise their status from mere bodyguards to ambitions in the highest echelons of the Republic's political body for a life of ease and plenty, end up saving Caesar's life (in trying to deliberately fail a pointless task given to them by one of the senators they were guarding; incidentally this particular senator believed the duo had discovered the plot and was trying to drive them away). From there, the two bumble their way across the ever-expanding Roman world, affecting history further in trying to satisfy their appetites for creature comforts.
Whoever first uttered that statement has obviously never experienced history as I have. In the views put hereforth by my ink and hand, I can tell you that history is more often than not being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as I and my dearest friend Tiberius were on the Ides of March, at the battles won by Caesar in Thracia and Dacia, and the succession of his heir, great and noble Pharaoh Caesarion of Egypt. I know this all too well because Tiberius and I were the ones to save Gaius Julius Caesar that fateful day from a traitorous plot among the Senate. And, in the most unflinchingly honest terms, we weren't even trying; in fact, it was a complete accident we were even at the Senate in the first place."
-, A Confession of My Errors
Welcome to The (Mis)Adventures of Gal and Tib, my first attempt at a Roman timeline (and a comical one at that). Obviously, the point of divergence is Julius Caesar's legendary assassination being foiled thanks to happenstance - a pair of praetorian guards, Gallus Titius Mordanticus and Tiberius Pescennius Mauricius, hoping to raise their status from mere bodyguards to ambitions in the highest echelons of the Republic's political body for a life of ease and plenty, end up saving Caesar's life (in trying to deliberately fail a pointless task given to them by one of the senators they were guarding; incidentally this particular senator believed the duo had discovered the plot and was trying to drive them away). From there, the two bumble their way across the ever-expanding Roman world, affecting history further in trying to satisfy their appetites for creature comforts.