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=== Session 1 === | === Session 1 === | ||
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Honestly I am quite surprised we didn't communicate before now. I kept a residence in Constantinople for a few centuries and I still have a few estates in Italy, and I met quite a few Emperors, perhaps we just didn't notice one another for whatever reason. | Honestly I am quite surprised we didn't communicate before now. I kept a residence in Constantinople for a few centuries and I still have a few estates in Italy, and I met quite a few Emperors, perhaps we just didn't notice one another for whatever reason. | ||
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+ | === Session 2 === | ||
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+ | My father was a General of the Emperor Constantine, | ||
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+ | Our family was convinced that we were too prominent to be persecuted. For a while we were right. The Emperor Julian gave him hope for a while, but it didn't last. | ||
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+ | Instead of joining the legions as a general myself, I started out considerably lower. Although not the rank of my father I was a Centurion, given my young age, and my father' | ||
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+ | In the final two years of my first life we were engaged against the Goths. It was a harsh campaign, but my Century was victorious in most engagements. Until Adrianople... Wish I could say that was the only time I fought at Adrianople but it was the first. I've already talked to some military historians of that battle so I won't bore you with the details. | ||
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+ | Our unit was in retreat until word reached us that the Emperor had been left behind. Oh the follies of my youth. I gathered up a unit of Cavalrymen to come with me in a charge to save the Emperor. To my glory addled mind, what greater way to advance your career than by saving the Emperor, and the glory you would get from that. Perhaps I'd be the General in the Eastern Campaign when it happened. No it didn't happen of course. I saw the house that the Emperor was holed up in but The Goth Cavalry men killed us before we got much closer. I remember that first death very clearly. | ||
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+ | The last three of our 20 man volunteer group, had rounded the corner in a full gallop towards the Emperor' | ||
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+ | One of my lieutenants recognized me on that and tried to pursue but I fled... Not sure why I did but I'd have rather died a hero, then lived as a coward. I left that name behind. | ||
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+ | By the time I was ready to try a new life it had been 4 years, I thought myself wiser. I had my coin purse... Time to start a new life, I still had no idea I was an Eternal just a lucky bastard that cheated Mors and Pluto. | ||
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+ | === Session 3 === | ||
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+ | My next life of any consequence developed as a bit of a happenstance. I had found some work as a Architech' | ||
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+ | Regardless I had a head for numbers. My experience handling the booty distribution as a centurion, and my Greek tutors from childhood served me well. Of course that " | ||
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+ | It wasn't a hard decision to make. In Constantinople, | ||
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+ | As a new student of Philosophy and Mathematics, | ||
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+ | Six years later in 391 was when Theodosius made paganism illegal, my fellow students and the teachers were flabbergasted at such a decision. Even more so when the Patriarch of Alexandria issued that decree, that "all Pagan temples should burn". To this day I have no idea why the Patriarch thought mob enforcement was an effective method of carrying out that decree. I think the Governor getting the booty of the temples stayed his hand. | ||
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+ | As a result, all of the students were gathered in the Serapeum of the Library. We could hear the city burning in the the distance as the Temple to Apollo burned. The Pharos kept the city illuminated at night, so we could see just where the city was burning and how much time we had. | ||
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+ | "The Christian Mob will soon be here." said the Librarian "The Governor assures me that the Library will be safe, but I have my doubts about that mob." he looked at us and I could tell he was weeping. " | ||
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+ | According to Wikipedia there are still many lost works from antiquity. The burning of Alexandria and countless other events did lots of damage. Combined with the fact that reprinting a book was a nightmarishly tedious process. You think it's bad now when a book is out of print? Try when the only copy in existence gets burned because of a careless transcriber. That's what happened to that Lost Dialogue of Plato. Wasn't me but a friend was assigned to transcribe it (I got Archimedes' | ||
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+ | I'd estimate that we got some 25% of the collection out that night. I had put most of Pliny' | ||
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+ | "You there! Atticus" | ||
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+ | I turned and saw the Librarian standing with a man leaning on a cane. The librarian continued "You good with a gladius I hear?" | ||
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+ | "Yes Sir!" I responded, my centurion days rang true. The students thought it funny I carried at Gladius around but it brooked no complaints after I defended the lot of them from an angry Christian group in my first year in Alexandria. | ||
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+ | The man with the cane nodded, "Good. You will escort my daughter" | ||
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+ | "Sir. I can' | ||
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+ | She huffed, and shook her head, " | ||
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+ | The old man with the cane picked it up and slammed it down on the tiled floor " | ||
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+ | You know it's a shame that none of Theon' | ||
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+ | Did I mention I also consider her my first wife? Theon had seen it, and was in hysterics over it. | ||
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+ | After that I noticed that despite being a very hard class to get into, I got into Theon' | ||
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+ | Those first few years after the Library' | ||
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+ | The rest of the decade was passed by blissfully enough. Hypatia and I didn't marry as her father passed on and couldn' | ||
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+ | Wish I paid more attention to that, perhaps it could have been prevented... Any student of classical antiquity knows what happened to Hypatia... | ||
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+ | The governor Orestes asked my wife's counsel. She had taken the carriage and on her way back from the Governor' | ||
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+ | I'm sorry... Even after 1500 years it's still difficult. | ||
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+ | ... | ||
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+ | After... Hypatia' | ||
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+ | I still worked at the School but at night I was driven by my vengeance. The church where they tortured her? I torched it while a service was in session. Cyril? Found him, put a knife on his throat, and told him I'd be there to end him when he least expected it. He died always checking his back. The monks that came down from the hills to ' | ||
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+ | The response in Alexandria was not much notice, although I do remember one scout report to Orestes which was curious how "The Goths had attacked the Monks residence in the Mountains" | ||
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+ | Fifteeen years after Hypatia' | ||
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+ | === Session 4 === | ||
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+ | The ship I boarded was bound for Hippo Regius. My ship never made it there. We came under attack by Vandals and the captain attempted to make a deal. Many feared being sold into slavery but the Vandals apparently were having none of that and opened fire upon us. We ran aground a few miles east of Hippo Regius, and the survivors made their way on foot. I chose the less common option. Faced with a choice of going east or west I chose to go west, perhaps it was time to join whatever military was there. All I had with me was an empty wine cask, and my knapsack. | ||
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+ | Recently I had been back to Hippo Regius, now Annaba, and the region is unrecognizable. Heh... so old that I can remember a time when inland North Africa wasn't a desert. | ||
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+ | In my quest, I had found the camp of King Genseric. Such a hodge podge of factions. Genseric and his officers bore more in common with the Germans, than they did with the Numidians, which they had picked up. Anti-Imperial sentiment was high, and my loyalty was not to an Empire that condoned zealous idolatry. When I got to the camp it was in the fourth month of the siege. The siege was going fine, but tensions were rising between the Numidians and Vandals. | ||
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+ | Outside the town at the inn I made the acquaintance of one of Genseric' | ||
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+ | At about the Ninth month of the siege, things were coming to a head. The Numidian Cavalry was attacking the supply train. In the last five months I had whipped up Vandal and Numidian crews to be able to work the trebuchets, and in the process I became just about the only person that was trusted by both sides. Genseric was concerned, the last thing this siege needed was a fight between both armies. He offered a prize to the man who could rid him of the Numidian Commander. I won that prize, my freedom and a prime position of the prizes of Hippo Regius. How'd I do it? I convinced the Numidian Commander that Genseric was planning a glorious charge into the city, and that he had already made a deal with someone inside, taking first take of the war prize... All that's needed to win a war. Play well enough and wait for the other guys to make a mistake. | ||
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+ | When the city fell Genseric was quite careful in his conquest. He knew that it would only hurt his people. I told him just about the only thing for certain he could take from without recrimination was from the churches. Genseric was an Arianist, and the city was full of some conflicting ideology, all sorts of raiding was possible. | ||
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+ | As a result I stayed with King Genseric, for quite a while, a trusted advisor. I'm sure the name Scorpio of Alexandria survived in some obscure text in Constantinople, | ||
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+ | So that's how I became the Entrepenuer of the Vandals... | ||
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+ | === Session 5 === | ||
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+ | The modern world is very remarkable in one respect, there' | ||
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+ | Although I didn't realize it at the time I came upon the methods of banking that would serve the Medicis well. I had means of taking collateral, kept immaculate records, and charted interest rates. Within a few years I was one of the wealthiest men in Carthage. | ||
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+ | In practice I would have called myself more a loan shark/ | ||
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+ | I am ashamed to say that it was probably my influence that caused Genseric to do the unthinkable. I had mentioned at a feast that I was losing quite a bit of money to people lending money from me and then travelling to Rome. It was the closest place that I couldn' | ||
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+ | Before a few months had passed, Genseric informed me of his plans... A siege of Rome. The Eternal City, it was an audacious plan. One Genseric was sure would place his name in the history books. The sack of Rome... I wasn't some legionnaire doing a last stand in the city... No how times change. I was attached to King Genseric as he negotiated the terms for the Vandals leaving the city. It was more peaceful than one would expect. As Scorpio I remember taking pleasure in watching Pope Leo I whimper and kiss the boot of Genseric... | ||
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+ | Numerous slaves were taken, whereas I was more concerned with the material wealth. I took the gold from the temple of Jupiter, tomes from the Imperial Library, statuary that was toppled by the Christians of the gods. We made out like bandits. Oh and the families protecting my debtors were more than happy to release them to me... | ||
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+ | Scorpio, was not one of my nicer personas. He was ruthless, efficient, and lacked many scruples. After my life as Atticus... I honestly didn't care... | ||
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+ | Eventually Scorpio had more enemies than friends. I had ruled the underworld of Carthage and the Vandals for over 20 years. People called me the devil, and like all empires, mine crumbled. | ||
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+ | It was at a dinner party when a servant sliced my throat, and a rival took out my guests. I knew instantly who betrayed me, and the assassins died as well once I awoke. It gave rise to a legend, they had to body and so the legend of Scorpio of Alexandria, endured. Constantly fearing my return as if I was some super natural entity. That last night I buried three chests that I intended to find again some day, and took off with much gold. My allies and lieutenants dead... Fear of being left alive, and to endure torture forever did not appeal to me. | ||
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+ | I was on the road, after Scorpio died, when I first met another Eternal. The African man presented himself as Africa. He spoke of a time when Sahara was more fertile, and although I didn't realize who they were, he mentioned meeting G'Len and Th' | ||
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+ | In a way he convinced me to enjoy a simpler life. I slipped aboard ship bound North from Tunisia. So ended Scorpio of Alexandria. | ||
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==== Personal information ==== | ==== Personal information ==== | ||
- | **Birth Name:**\\ | + | **Birth Name: |
- | **Birth Date:** \\ | + | **Birth Date: |
- | **Birth Place: | + | **Birth Place: |
- | **Status at Birth:** \\ | + | **Status at Birth: |
**Relation to other Eternals:** \\ | **Relation to other Eternals:** \\ | ||
- | **Current Pseudonym: | + | **Current Pseudonym: |
- | **Past Pseudonyms: | + | **Past Pseudonyms: |
**Current Home:** \\ | **Current Home:** \\ | ||
- | **Past Homes:** \\ | + | **Past Homes: |
**Current Occupation: | **Current Occupation: | ||
- | **Skills:** \\ | + | **Skills: |
- | **Languages Spoken:** \\ | + | **Languages Spoken: |
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==== See Also ==== | ==== See Also ==== | ||
- | **[[Autobiographies of Eternals|Eternal Autobiography Interviews | + | **[[The Trust]]** |
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+ | ==== Navigation ==== | ||
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+ | **[[Autobiographies of Eternals|Eternal Autobiography Interviews]]** | ||
**[[AH.com Eternals]]** | **[[AH.com Eternals]]** | ||
- | **[[The Trust]]** |
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