Lucius Cornelius Sulla is a name etched in the blood of the Roman Republic, but in 107 BC, he was nothing more than a "Patrician of the Gutter." Bankrupt, decayed, and living in a crumbling tenement between a mistress and a stepmother, Sulla was a man whose birthright said "Consul" but whose reality said "Nobody."In this first chapter on Sulla within the Rubicon series, we trace the formative years of Rome’s most unsettling paradox. From the violent mimes of the Subura to a chance encounter at a bloody New Year's sacrifice, discover the moment Sulla realized that he was destined to be more than just a playboy.