User blog:Aramirtheranger/"Ego sum Deximus" Prologue: I Get Kicked Out of the Country

The Imperial Guardsman jabbed me in the back with the butt of his spear. I barely felt it; little pains like that have a tendency to be ignored by Praetorians. Why the inferna I had been arrested was anyone's guess. Sextus Ultimus Nerva, the man who had ordered it, was far from the stereotypical auguste and disciplined stereotype that our culture expects patrician men to be. But nobody dared speak up about it, since Nerva was quite literally insane. Normally that would have landed a man on the streets or in the nearest asylum if he had family who could afford it, but not Sextus. After all, he was the last Emperor's only son, and Atmoran law says that only a male can be regent(idiotic really, the patricians are okay with women fighting to save their hides in the Amazons, but not with bending knee to them). Rumor has had it that he has a over three thousand female slaves, but also says that his favorite also happens to be his sister. Fifteen hundred years ago nobody would have batted an eye at that, but about six centuries ago it was discovered that there was a direct link between insanity, and physical deformities, and incestuous relations.