Theoretico
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✦ Step two · Imperial Rome

Choose a life.

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You will play the same skeleton, costumed for the role. One life and the next overlap by roughly a third; the rest is yours to discover.Pick on instinct.

Aulus Mettius, Garum merchant
PERSONA · 01
PROTAGONIST · OSTIA QUAY, dawnTheoretico · render
Garum merchant
Ostia
Aulus Mettius
“The city smells like fish. You smell like money.”

You inherited two warehouses, three slaves, and a contract with the imperial granaries. Your sauce is mediocre. Your accounts are excellent.

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Cornelia Maxima, Vestal Virgin
PERSONA · 02
PROTAGONIST · THE FORUM, middayTheoretico · render
Vestal Virgin
Atrium Vestae
Cornelia Maxima
“You tend a fire older than the Republic.”

Chosen at six, sworn for thirty years. You are property of the state and immune to its laws. You can pardon a condemned man with a glance.

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Tiro, Household slave (literatus)
PERSONA · 03
PROTAGONIST · VILLA ATRIUM, middayTheoretico · render
Household slave (literatus)
Villa of a senator
Tiro
“You know more about Roman politics than most senators.”

Educated, Greek, and worth more than a horse. You read aloud at dinner and copy your master's correspondence. Manumission is possible. Not soon.

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Lucius Petronius, Legionary, Legio X Gemina
PERSONA · 04
PROTAGONIST · DANUBE FORT, summerTheoretico · render
Legionary, Legio X Gemina
Vindobona
Lucius Petronius
“Twenty-five years from home and counting.”

Year fourteen of service. You build more roads than you fight battles. Your back hurts. Your savings are real.

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Salvia, Midwife (obstetrix)
PERSONA · 05
PROTAGONIST · BIRTHING ROOM, lamplightTheoretico · render
Midwife (obstetrix)
Subura
Salvia
“Half the women on the Aventine owe you their lives.”

You were a slave. You are now a freedwoman with a trade and a small clientele. You attend births rich and poor and charge accordingly.

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Quintus, Fuller (fullo)
PERSONA · 06
PROTAGONIST · FULLONICA VATS, noonTheoretico · render
Fuller (fullo)
Fullonica
Quintus
“Your shop runs on collected urine. Business is steady.”

You bleach togas. The state taxes the urine you buy from the public latrines. You vote in the guild and the guild votes loudly.

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NoteThe codex you build here persists across every life you live in Imperial Rome.