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An egotistical imbecile who believes everything he hears and considers himself a genius? Claudius sure does sound like a certain current world leader. Oh, well, time for everyone’s favourite red headed hipster. I’m surprised no one’s made a rock opera about Nero the Roman rockstar.

Still over an hour left. I just want to be done already.

Getting really sick of this nonsense.

I wonder if Halima will remain the protagonist the whole story or if there’ll be others. Hard to picture a curious young girl interacting with the guild of Assassins. At least not in their setting.

Some highlights from the Blue Team:
“Hey, Delos, we’re friends, right? Give us your city. Neither of us want to destroy it.”
“We’re an empire, we need to do this.”
“Hey, if you were as powerful as us, you’d invade you too.”

Really enjoying this so far.

Caligula was interesting. Even if you take it with a massive grain of salt there is still a lengthy series of negative rumours on display here. Still, I’d have to say I’m of the opinion that much of this is probably enemy propaganda produced by the Senate and later Emperors trying to distance themselves from the old dynasty.

Almost finished. Just one more 3.5x session and then I can put this book behind me.

Signs your side may be the wrong side: “You’re just jealous we have an empire.”

And I thought Tiberius was an arsehole before. At least I’m up to Little Boots. Good old crazy as a loon Little Boots.

“Quintilus Varro, give me back my legions!”

Really blazing through Julius. The entire Alexandria saga was reduced to a couple of paragraphs. And this is the only text we have on half of the later twelve.