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Aurelian. Farm boy. Born in the dirt somewhere near Sirmium, son of a soldier, and a priestess of Sol Invictus. He entered the army at the very bottom and fought his way to the top of the military hierarchy, the old fashioned way - he earned every bit of it. By the time Claudius Gothicus died, he was the number two to the emperor, the general in charge of the entire army. But this was a reduced Empire, split in three, overrun by barbarian enemies on the frontiers, and devastated by the Plague. What is Rome in 270AD? And who is Aurelian? Does any of it matter when the world as we know it no longer exists?
By Matteo & Matthew Storm5
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Aurelian. Farm boy. Born in the dirt somewhere near Sirmium, son of a soldier, and a priestess of Sol Invictus. He entered the army at the very bottom and fought his way to the top of the military hierarchy, the old fashioned way - he earned every bit of it. By the time Claudius Gothicus died, he was the number two to the emperor, the general in charge of the entire army. But this was a reduced Empire, split in three, overrun by barbarian enemies on the frontiers, and devastated by the Plague. What is Rome in 270AD? And who is Aurelian? Does any of it matter when the world as we know it no longer exists?

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