Nero

Claudia Octavia (Cousin/Wife)

Tiberius (Great-grandfather)

Claudius (Uncle/Stepfather)

Caligula (Uncle)

Caesonia (Aunt-in-law)

Augustus (Step-great-great-grandfather)

Julius Caesar (Step-great-great-great-grandfather)

Germanicus (Grandfather)

Britannicus (Cousin)

Poppaea (Wife)

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, renamed Nero (37-68) was a Roman Emperor and a fan of the arts. He is the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty.

## In "Unbiased History"

### **"The Mad Emperors"**

Agrippina the Younger and her son, Lucius, were becoming incredibly popular because of their Julian heritage. As a result, Claudius, who was emperor at the time, married her, convincing heirship to be transferred from Britannicus to Lucius, now named Nero. Nero was arranged to marry Claudia Octavia - who was Claudius' daughter - and be tutored by Seneca. Soon after, Agrippina would poison Claudius, allowing Nero to ascend to the throne at the ripe old age of sixteen.

Agrippina's hold on Nero became slippery right at the beginning of his rule, as he had sex with a freed woman, scorning his marriage to Claudia in the process. Soon after, he heard of Agrippina's plot to overthrow him in favor of Britannicus, and in response poisoned Agrippina's new potential puppet. He would later banish her, and then eventually - after failing to poison her thrice as well as failing to collapse a boat she was in - have her killed. Her spirit would haunt him for the rest of time.

After hearing of what the Parthian king did with Armenia, he sent Corbulo to retake it, and did so successfully. When he heard that Pietus, the legate that Corbulo left behind was humiliated, he allowed Parthia to have Armenia back as a client kingdom, but made the king suck him off first as revenge for Pietus. Afterwards he finally divorced, and then executed, his wife in favor of Poppaea, Otho's ex-wife. As compensation, he gave Otho Lusitania to rule. He would have a daughter with Poppaea - named after his first wife - who didn't survive infancy.

He resolved to fully annex the client kingdom of Bosphoros (Modern Crimea) into the empire before appointing Paulinus as governor of Britannia alongside Agricola. In the next three years after Boudicca's defeat, he would persecute the Christians for their rampant christcuckery, including future saint Peter, crucifying and burning each and every one of them that weren't thrown to the lions. As a result, Rome was set alight by the Christians, and once Nero had heard about it, he immediately focused most of his personal wealth to compensate his people, but could sense the slander that the christcucks from afar. As a result of his persecutions, he would be labeled as the Antichrist, designated with the number 666 after a summation of his name after being translated into Hebrew numbers.

When he wasn't persecuting the Christians, he was winning games in art-related Olympic sports like singing and acting, as well as chariot racing. He spent time to craft the Colossus of Nero, which would later be given the solar crown and renamed as the Colossus Solis by Vespasian. He also got sick of his wife complaining about his fondness for the games, so kicked her pregnant belly, killing her and her unborn child, but still would complain to him even after death.

Sadly, despite his popularity, he would be the target of a conspiracy led by Gaius Piso, which failed after a freed woman botched a recruitment opportunity and having the conspiracy relayed to Nerva, who relayed it to Nero. As a result, he ordered the freed woman to be tortured, Piso to be executed, and Seneca - an accomplice - to commit suicide. He did marry a nameless woman after executing her husband, but it was not enough, so he went with one of his twink slaves instead: Sporus, who would be dressed and made up like a woman before castration.

Mid-honeymoon, he had heard of a rebellion in Judea after complaints of high taxation by the Jews and the resultant capture of the Jews' illegally-kept wealth. As a result, he sent Vespasian and his son Titus to deal with them, which they would until the Year of the Four Emperors. He had also heard that a Gallic governor - Vindex - was also rebelling due to high taxation, so sent Verginius, a legate, to quash the revolt. However, the leeches of the Praetorian Guard decided to abandon him in favor of Galba, so he began to flee with his wife, seeking to sail away like Sulla did, but the sailors also betrayed him, quoting Vergil to his face. He then fled to a friend's home and ordered his grave to be dug. As he heard the cavalry arrive, he called out Sporus' name and mourned that a great artist would be lost, plunging a knife into himself afterwards. As some of the few loyal members of the Praetorian Guard tried to stop his bleeding, he said "Too late... this is fidelity." He died of blood loss, ending both the early Principate and the Julio-Claudian Dynasty.

### **"Constantine The Great"**

He is seen as a spirit presiding over St. Peter's Basilica, ironically put where Peter was crucified.

### **"Barbarians at the Gates"**

His spirit, along with those of Aeneas, Severus, Augustus, Paulinus, Decius, Pompey, Hadrian, and Diocletian, all scold Theodosius after his decrees made paganism illegal and forced Christianity to be the only religion in the empire.

### **"The Fall of Rome"**

He is seen in the ending montages alongside the rest of the post-Augustus Julio-Claudians, their relatives and wives, including Sporus, a horse, Sejanus, Boudicca and Caratacus, Paulinus, and Neptune.

## Trivia

* Modern historians claim that Nero did not kill Poppaea, but rather that she suffered a fatal miscarriage.
* Burrus, Nero's main Praetorian prefect and one of his most important advisors alongside Seneca, is nowhere to be seen in the series, owing to the series' view on Praetorian Guards.
* One omission from the series was Nero ordering Corbulo to commit suicide, which Corbulo exclaimed "Axios" (meaning "worthy of" or "suitable" ,but in this case it's "i am worthy")before falling on his sword.
* When Nero becomes Emperor, Nero's theme from Fate/Extra starts playing.
	+ Caligula's third wife, Caesonia, seems to be based on Nero from the same game being a busty blond in a red dress.

* In Byzantine mini series, he along with Decius and Diocletian would be demonized due to their persecution of Christians being seen in negative light in heavily Christian era.