Xaius Octavian

**Xaius Octavian**, formerly known as **Gozi**, was once Cleopatra's best friend. After possession of the Sword of Kebechet, he acquired immortality, but at the cost of seeing his loved ones pass away. He is the main antagonist of the book series.

## Biography

### Early Life

Gozi was a normal Egyptian, and friends with Cleopatra. One day, while playing slingshots with her, Cleopatra hit a pillar and made an avalanche. They discovered a strange door and went inside. While Gozi examined the Sword, Cleopatra discovered the UTA tablet, and went missing into time. Gozi got bitten by a snake, and was cursed. Bakari and Gozi were blamed for Cleo's disappearance and thrown into jail. Gozi claimed that Cleo was no longer his friend. Space pirates attacked Egypt, leaving Gozi as a servant to them. When the space pirates were attacked, Bakari told Gozi that Cleo was alive. Gozi felt betrayed by Cleo, so he told him he was "done with this life". That destroyed the lower half of Gozi, causing him to land on a planet with black people with tentacles. He became one of them and fought in the war. He had many children and wives but soon they died. He realized that his curse had been causing this. He obeyed his master and started to gather Xerx, to create an army.

### The Thief and the Sword

Octavian wanted the fake sword so he could lure Cleopatra into a trap. He hired Antony for the job. Antony stole the sword and gave it to Octavian. Octavian, however betrayed Antony, revealing that it was only a fake, So he escaped to Hykosis. Octavian followed Khensu's ship and caught them going to Hykosis.

### Secret of the Time Tablets

After ambushing khensu's ship over hykosis, the xerx are provoked by Zaid firing on the ship, and destroy it. Octavian has those xerx killed in a fit of rage, assuming them dead, but decends to the planet to be sure. he later captures both Zaid and Khensu, and uses them as bait to lure Cleopatra to the Uta tablet. Cleo tricks his Xerx into firing on one another, and in the aftermath tries to attack him. This goes poorly, as Octavian effortlessly deflects her attack and fires upon rocks where Antony and Akila are hiding, with the resulting rockslide permanently injuring the latter. He leads Cleo and the prisoners to the uta tablet, deep within a cave. He reveals how much he has manipulated her journey until now, and makes her read the Uta tablet, which tells that she is destined to die. After giving her an ultimatum, Cleo steals a xerx blaster and causes a cave in to trap Octavian, but he effortlessly shrugs it off and snaps himself back together, and reveals his identity as Gozi, and reveals his immortality stems from the sword of kebchet, and how he's held an unimaginable grudge for years against her. Octavian then attempts to kill Cleopatra, only for Zaid to leap into the beam's path, and Zaid is killed when the blast vaporizes him. In a fit of rage, Cleo lunges at him, and attempts to attack him, but he blocks it with the time tablet, launching her back in time. Moments later, however, she blips back into the future, and fires a massive blast of light, which launches Octavian into orbit, where he remains until the book's conclusion.

### The Golden Lion

octavian is seen bowing to Anubis, who reprimands him for his prior failures. Octavian tells him the golden lion has been discovered and Anubis gifts him ophios, and sends ophios to destroy the golden lion. octavian later dispatches antony to retrieve a part of the star for use in weapons development. after ophios fails, antony delivers a small piece of the lion. and as antony leaves, the box turns red, and octavian realizes he's been tricked, as it detonates, leveling his fleet