The six candidates came all from old roman families.
Lucius was the first one. He was learned in the Greek traditions and had a noble appearance. The people of Rome liked him, but he was ruthless and evil.
Crassus was the second one. He composed music and poems, and was famous for the orgies he organised. But he was a slave to his apetites, and evil too.
Brutus was the third one, and led the blue armies. For a while, he managed to hide his black and evil heart behind a complascent smile. But as the war unfolded, his true nature became obvious for everybody...
The younger one was Titus. He was young, handsome, brash. But the demons of ambition were eating his entrails, and he was bad to the bone. He led the red armies. Blood red...
Tamaris was not one to lead the armies from the front. But she has been trained by her family to become a statewoman. She led the green faction with an iron hand in steel glove. And she was every bit as evil and scheming as her ennemies.
And the last one of them was Claudius Antonius of the Julii (seen here addressing the Forum). His family had settled in Hispania, in the colony of Valentium. From there, his elders had groomed him all the way through the cursus honorum, teaching him, above all, the Roman Virtus. He was a pupil of Cicero, and with him, asserted that virtus was a virtue particularly suited to the new man just as nobilitas was suited to the noble. He argued that virtus and not one’s family history should decide a man’s worthiness. Virtus is something that a man earns himself, not something that is given to him by his family, thus it is a better measure of a man’s ability. Through his early life, he embodied the concepts of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, and had only contempt for lies, double talk and treason. He was the epitome of the Roman Novus Homo.
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