The Story of Titus (Titus The Great)

Emperor Titus was born in 643 B.F and was born in the Central Region of Orbis. He grew up under his father known as the Red Wolf and was given the name White Wolf due to his White Hair. He would grow up in a far more powerful and lavish tribe than most until when he was seventeen and was on a fishing trip with his Father. Bands of pirates would capture him and take him down the river to the East. At This time the ruling nation in the east was the Acriaban Dominion. He would grow up to be a slave for a rich Emir of the Dominion. Until he was about twenty three he was sold to an arena master. He would be pampered and well fed and trained for five years until the age of twenty eight. He would be thrusted into the arena, from there he would go on to reluctantly fight warriors from all over Orbis who were slaves to The Dominion. He would constantly look back at his life wondering if he would ever see his Father Again, His Mother, and His Tribe.. However luck came to his doorstep when an Invading Army from the Sha Dynasty, a nation from Chinika landed on the beaches of Acribia and moved to besiege Cario. The city of Cario was sacked and he was able to escape during the ensuing Chaos.

After White Wolf had been out in the desert for several days he had found himself in the hospitality of a young woman named Abira. Abira was an Eastern Zorian Woman who was a widow and owned land due to her late husband's death after Dominion Slavers attempted to take them captive. She would keep him around after saving his life. Of course he had to pay her back by the occasional farm work but by the time he was thirty two they had fallen in love. So much so they had a child and decided to rename the family's last name to Abdul meaning The Servant of Acribia and they named their son Terix. After working for nearly four years with his wife he would receive a message from a young warrior from the Central Tribes who after five long months had finally found him. The Messenger Informed him that his Father had been killed by Norks and that he was the sole ruler of his Tribe. He pondered for an hour or two contemplating if he truly wanted to leave this perfect life behind but his wife, Abira had already packed his bags. She urged him to go to his people and to one day come back and free her people. With a quick nod he mounted his horse without looking back and traveled home with the messenger.

After returning home he was greeted by old friends and his Mother. His Mother would take him into a hut with his Father's body on the ground. His father had an odd set of armor next to him. He asked "who did that armor belong to before my father and where did he get it or did he make it?". The mother's reply would only be “the armor of a God" as she would smile.``Look there to your father's plans for a legendary sword" she eagerly grabbed the plans. She then would point to the table with the armor upon it "That Armour is made out of metal from the gods use it!” she would exclaim with an odd amount of excitement. He would take the armor and smelt it into a blade with a golden tint. He would then go out and grab the thickest branch he could and within a matter of hours the hilt and blade laid upon his table. White Wolf promised to change the world, to free his Wife of the Dominion, avenge his Father, and to bring peace to the world in his Father's name. After finally assembling his new blade forged by the Armor of his Father he was ready to make his promise come true. His first quest would be to unite the tribes of Romikka and Kelotican. But before making a move Titus knew this would be no easy task, he would use the resources of his already powerful tribe to train professional and disciplined armies. Like the ones mirrored off of The Acrabians he would hire Zorian and Acrabian Trainers alike to train these Tribals into a professional army. With time the Army would be ready and Titus would conduct ruthless campaigns that would see the two realms united within five years. One by one he went from tribe to tribe not saying a word but only holding out his Golden Sword waiting for swords to be drawn or for all to bow to him...Eventually the entirety of the Central Tribes from Romikka and Kelotican bowed to his sword and his will.

With his new found army of professional soldiers and tribal levies he would first go to the East to seek vengeance on the remaining Acrabians and to reclaim his golden prize. Upon arriving at the farm however he would only find ashes,slaughtered livestock, and a small child crying next to a mutilated woman. Devastated he promised he would hunt down those who did this and would make the Terix a powerful and just man. Eventually the promise was fulfilled when he would siege the city of Sultania, the rulers of the city were slaughtered but the innocent were spared. He would then return home with his new son and the body of his wife which he would bury next to his Father. Years later he would marry a young woman named Romikka from his tribe who would give birth to another son but would die during childbirth. The boy would be named Titus Junitores, He was the first in Titus’s bloodline to hold a native Romikkan last name. Now at the age of forty eight Titus was still strong, and abnormally felt as if he had not aged since his early twenties.By this point he held all of Acribia,Romikka, and Kelotican. He named the Central land he held Romikka after the name of his second wife giving the province an official name. Yet during all of this peace and relative prosperity The Cold North called to him when the northerners called for a Norkish Head Hunt for Wondaz. They would ravage the lands of Romika and Kelotican, killing all they came across tossing their decapitated heads into bonfires until White Wolf with his Mighty Sword would come face to face with them near Vaedesia. Titus would engage one of the larger forces of the head hunt and offer the Head hunts leader to come forth for a duel. And made terms that if White Wolf won he would get the North and The Norks Armies would honorably join him. But if he lost all of his lands and armies would pledge their allegiance to the Norkish Warlord known as Sven Bull Neck, Sven Bull Neck was Legendary. Known for taking large raiding expeditions to Eastern & Western Danika,Reichland, and Even Chinika. He was also well known for using his famous axe, the Head Splita. Which according to Legend Sven specifically made the axe for hunting Thralls and their Mammoths for fun.

The duel would start with both meeting on the field. Their armies faced off with most estimates saying Svens Armies were in the hundreds of thousands and Titus’s Armies being little over one hundred thousand men. Both prepared their stances sizing each other up before rushing forward sending back snow and dirt. They would duel for nearly two hours, both being of equal match. Dodging or barely blocking the blows both were of Legendary Renown, Titus being the Conqueror of The East, and Sven the Mighty Warlord and Thrall Hunter. As time crawled to a slow the balanced match was finally moving into the favor of Titus. Titus would smash Sven's leg in with a well placed blow from his sword and bash his face in repeatedly with the hilt of his sword. The warriors on both sides looked in horror, as Titus would continue to cave in the already flattened head of the Norkish Warlord...Titus laid back looking at the opposing army. The army as agreed did bow but instead of joining Titus they simply abandoned the Head Hunt in dishonor. Titus would go on to conquer the Northern Province of Orbis with Vaedesia being his final stopping point. But Titus would never go on to conquer the Far North. Although Svens armies did not abide by the deal to join Titus’s armies. Titus made no attempt to punish or hunt them down and allowed them to leave peacefully.

With the armies of Northern Orbis,and Central Orbis under his control and at the stern age of sixty he now began to manage his provinces and moved nearly two hundred and fifty thousand of his people to Central Romika to create the City in his dreams…. The Imperial City known as Titus City. Titus would then make a bold statement saying he was The First Emperor of the known world and that he would be referred as Titus the Great. During these times of mass construction and Administration Titus would also make less notable conquests in the Eastern Provinces of Drazzan, Eastern and Western Danika, and Southern Orbis. The older Titus became though, the more power hungry he grew. Conquest after conquest Titus could feel himself slipping with age but his body,his senses,his strength never deteriorated. Titus would make his way to The Far West first as an emissary holding negotiations with the local Chinikans to establish trade. Chinika by this point was under the Rule of the puppet Families of the Yi,Yung, and Sha after being put into power by the Empire of Cha after the Chaian Invasion of Chinika decades prior. Spending large amounts of time in Chinika Titus would meet and marry a prominent woman in the land who was at one point previously married to a Sha Emperor Zhang Hyo of Chinika. The newly wed wife of Titus, named Koharu, had a child already. Koharu had taken the Child with her and the Sha Emperor feared the child would become a puppet of Titus. And once he died the Throne would fall into Titus’s Hands. In retaliation the Chinikan Emperor attempted to have both Koharu and her Child killed. The assassination plot failed and Titus declared war upon the Chinikan Emperor and moved his forces to Chinika to conquer the continent. Titus would conduct a swift and brutal conquest of Chinika unlike his conquest of Acriabia. After the campaigns Titus would find in the Capitol City or Kayata that the Chinikan Emperor was holding a Dragon in captivity by the name of Zardul. Zardul was grateful for his release, especially seeing that the Chinikan Emperor would use the dragon like a mine and rip off it’s scale for armor and would wait for them to grow back. Creating an endless cycle of extreme pain and torture for Zardul. Titus and Zardul in the coming years would  become good friends. And Zardul even became Titus’s top Advisor due to his fast knowledge of thousands of years worth of Naraian History and also due to his reliability. Zardul with the help of Titus’s sons would be a driving factor to convincing Titus to let go of his power.

Titus was now at the age of sixty six, and yet the same thought crossed his mind. He had not felt the sins of old age come across him. But he started to notice that while he did not feel the energy of life leaving him he became more paranoid. He became cruel and at some points would show no emotion or remorse for some of the actions and things he would say. By the age of seventy six Titus had lined up how the Empires would be managed when he died. He let go of his paranoia and allowed each of his Sons to rule their own Empires. But in all of his selfishness he finally became able to see the “light” thanks to Zardul. One more sign of hope had struck him. He assigned his good friend Zardul the Dragon to be the first Patriarch. Zarduls job would be to establish an Order to prevent the Empires,His Sons, his People from killing each other. Only days after this decision Titus finally let go, he let go the power of his life and when Titus died in 719 D.T.R. His sword was created into a Golden Cross that all the remaining Patriarchs after him would wear. The First Emperor after Titus to rule Romikka would be his Romikkan Born Son Titus Junitores, his next Son Terix Abdul would rule Acribia, and finally his Last Son Heung Lo would rule Chinika. The Three Empires had been created the moment Titus died and with it the Legacy of Titus would endure for centuries more. While Titus did not unite the planet like Sargoth did, Titus would beat the greed and will to pertain eternal life for the quest of power. And in the end he brought peace to the known world...only for a short time of course.