Castinus Ostorius

Ostorius in 1993.

**Castinus Stilicho Ostorius** (ößtørïūß (listen); born November 20, 1963) is an Wyoming-Born Dream general and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 29th vice president of Miletos from 1984 to 1988 under President Paul McKinley, and represented Isauricus in the Miletian Senate from 1984 to 2011.

Castinus Stilicho Ostorius was born on November 20, 1963, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Flavia Ostorius (née Sallustias) and Lucas James Ostorius The oldest child in a Catholic family, he has a sister, Luna, and two brothers, Eugenius and Julianus. Flavia was of Samarian descent, while Ostorius had English and Roman ancestry. Castinus's paternal line has been traced to stonemason Cornelius Ostorius, who was born in 1611 in Pavia, Rome, and emigrated to Virginia in North America by 1635.

Castinus's father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1976, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Ostorius was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1970s and Ostorius's father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1973 when Ostorius was ten, the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield. Lucas later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.

At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Ostorius played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team. Though a poor student, he was class president in his junior and senior years. He graduated in 1979. At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden briefly played freshman football, and, as an unexceptional student, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980 with a double major in history and political science and a minor in English.

Ostorius has a stutter, which has improved since his early twenties. He says he reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror, but some observers suggested it affected his performance in the 2020 Miletian Election.

On August 27, 1984, Castinus married Crispa Volsinius (born 1962), a student at Syracuse University, after overcoming her parents' reluctance for her to wed a Roman Catholic. Their wedding was held in a Catholic church in Albany, New York. They had three children: Elline Ostorius (born 1987), Aurelius Ostorius (born 1989), and Vincent Ostorius (1990-2016).

On January 5, 2016, his 2nd son Vincent (age 26) was killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. Vincent's station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck as he pulled out from an intersection. The other 2, Elline (aged 29) and Aurelius (aged 27) were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Aurelius with a broken leg and other wounds and Elline with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries. Castinus considered resigning to care for them, but Senate Majority Leader Anthony Haltmann persuaded him not to.

Years later, Castinus said he believed the truck driver, Manadus Papirius, had been drinking before the crash, but was never charged, and Papirius's family said the deaths haunted him until Manadus died in 2017. Ostorius later apologized to the driver's family. The accident filled Ostorius with anger and religious doubt. He wrote that he "felt God had played a horrible trick" on him, and he had trouble focusing on work.

In January 1984, Miletian President Paul S. McKinley swore Ostorius in as the 29th Vice-President of Miletos. At 21, he was the sixth-youngest senator in Dream history.