Getting Started

Welcome to TMS! If you're here it means that you're looking to officially join our ranks or have, at the very least, found yourself interested in how the group works at large. This page is meant to be a helpful navigational menu and resource for anybody interested in joining our group! Whether this is your first time making a character with us or your thousandth, we hope that this page will be of vital use for our members.

## Resources

If you wish to use the applications that are currently located on DeviantArt, they can be found here under Faction Applications. The applications have also been uploaded to this website so that they are not lost. If the applications are ever updated, we will have it posted in our update log.

### Factions

There are currently six playable factions within TMS with the potential for more to form (alongside sub factions) as the group continues to grow. Provided below is a list of the factions, their current locations, and important information that can help members decide which faction best suits their needs.

#### The Roman Army

Signified by light blues on it's application, the Roman Army is an outsider faction within TMS. These felines do not speak the same language as the island's native inhabitants, at least not fluently. Most Roman felines know some form of mainland Greece's spoken Greek, but will still have trouble understanding the felines that live on Crete due to their own distinct dialect.

Sent by the Consulship of Publicola and Lentulus and their feline counterparts Cinna and Flaccus, the Roman Army has one job; remind Crete that it belongs to Rome. The providence has refused to bend under it's Roman Rulers for the past two decades and Rome is not happy about it. They are the first legion of three to arrive under Marcus Antonius Creticus, who is set to begin his conquest in earnest in 71 BC.

The Roman Army is lead by Vesper Vipsanius Marcellus (Vipsanius) and his owner Gaius Claudies Pulcher and is meant to be a recon unit first and foremost for the main campaign, but has also been instructed to start a conquest in earnest if the timing seems right. The army's current location is due north of Kissamos on an abandoned beach that has been dubbed

Little do the felines know that they are at the edge of the great labyrinth of Crete, one wrong step could send them towards disaster, though they are non the wiser.

Click here to learn more about the Roman Army

#### The Knossos Army

Signified by burnt browns on it's application, the Knossos Army is meant to be the opposition to the Roman Army and most of the factions plots will involve (eventually) the fight between Rome and Knossos. The Army has dealt with pirates stealing from the many small trading boats that move between the islands of the Mediterranean and most of it's foundations are built around protecting traders over that of anything else, though as the Astynomia have risen, the jobs of the Army have slowly moved from that of protectors of the cities to that of an actual Army.

The recognized leader of the army is Alesandro who is owned by Acastus of Knossos. They often are not front line fighters and delegate much of what the army can and can't do within the city. They are unaware of the Roman encampment but are still very much so at war with the various pirate factions that exist outside of the city.

Click here to learn more about the Knossos Army.