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The year is 268 AD and the once proud Roman Empire is a shadow of its former self.
It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.
From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.
Part XIII: Destroyer
Six thousand ships push off from the northern shores of the Dark Sea, their wooden hulls crammed with more than three hundred thousand Goths. For the men, women and children of the tribes there is no turning back, as they are fleeing before their enemies and set on making a new home within the borders of a once powerful Empire that has grown weak and feeble.
Late summer of the same year, the barbarian armada beaches on the shores of Roman Macedonia. Slowly the horde creeps overland, across Thracia, ravaging all in its path.
The winter snow closes the approaches to the western provinces of Rome, providing the emperor with a brief respite to gather the handful of legions that remain loyal. Lucius and his friends cross the Danube in a desperate bid to gather allies for the inevitable confrontation, but they find the tribal lands north of the Mother River in turmoil and the chiefs reluctant.
When the snow melts from the passes, a disheartened emperor marches west to give battle. Marcus and his legions face almost insurmountable odds, but in his depleted arsenal there is one weapon that might just turn the tide – a half-barbarian general that has never tasted defeat, a man who walks in the shadow of Arash the Destroyer, the lord of the field of blood.
Genre: Historical
It will take a man with iron in his veins to set things right and accomplish the impossible.
From a humble upbringing, a boy emerges who is destined to change history.
This is the story of Lucius Domitius Aurelianus.
Part XIII: Destroyer
Six thousand ships push off from the northern shores of the Dark Sea, their wooden hulls crammed with more than three hundred thousand Goths. For the men, women and children of the tribes there is no turning back, as they are fleeing before their enemies and set on making a new home within the borders of a once powerful Empire that has grown weak and feeble.
Late summer of the same year, the barbarian armada beaches on the shores of Roman Macedonia. Slowly the horde creeps overland, across Thracia, ravaging all in its path.
The winter snow closes the approaches to the western provinces of Rome, providing the emperor with a brief respite to gather the handful of legions that remain loyal. Lucius and his friends cross the Danube in a desperate bid to gather allies for the inevitable confrontation, but they find the tribal lands north of the Mother River in turmoil and the chiefs reluctant.
When the snow melts from the passes, a disheartened emperor marches west to give battle. Marcus and his legions face almost insurmountable odds, but in his depleted arsenal there is one weapon that might just turn the tide – a half-barbarian general that has never tasted defeat, a man who walks in the shadow of Arash the Destroyer, the lord of the field of blood.
Genre: Historical
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