Rome

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Rome
Alias(es)	Roman Empire; Great Rome 205 207
Type	Nation and civilization; later described as a spiritual inheritance shared by humanity 205 247
Capital	City of Rome 214
Founder	Romulus, later deified as Romulus Quirinus 131 206
Spiritual Ancestor	Rovi, honored as the Ancestor of Rome 86 205
Guardian Deity	Mars 204 205
Documented Emperors	Octavian, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero Claudius 202 214 217
Status	The empire declines and fragments; its civilization and spiritual legacy endure 239 246 247
First Appearance	Foreseen by Ares during his enlightenment 86

Background / History

Founding

Rome is first revealed in Ares’s vision of the future during his confrontation with Rovi. He sees a kingdom inheriting Greece, established by someone who plants his spear on a holy mountain and names the nation Rome. After understanding righteous war through Rovi’s example, Ares adopts the name Mars and declares Rovi the Father of War and Ancestor of Rome 86.

Eight hundred years after the end of Rovi’s Greek era, Romulus discovers the sage’s pen in the ruins of Rovi City. Mars instructs his son to make it the core of a spear and establish a nation with it. Roman tradition consequently traces the country’s foundation to Romulus, Mars’s assistance, and Rovi’s will 131 214.

Caligula and the Moon Cell

By the early centuries of the Common Era, Rome is a major continental power. Rovi travels there because the Moon Cell has begun extending its influence into the nation 201 208.

Caligula, initially a capable emperor beloved by citizens and senators, falls into madness through contact with Moon Cell authorization fragments. His desire to protect Rome becomes distorted into a wish to grant Rome and his family eternal slumber through death 202 204.

Rovi temporarily frees Caligula from the Moon Cell’s influence. Before dying, the emperor recognizes him as Rome’s ancestor, entrusts Rome and Nero to him, and passes his authorization onward 204 205.

Nero’s Accession and Britannia

Rovi nominates Nero Claudius as emperor with Mars’s approval. Her investiture takes place two days later before the Citizen Assembly, where Rovi crowns her and she appoints him her helper 205.

Their first major crisis concerns Britannia. Rome has treated the province as an exploitable wilderness rather than protected territory, leaving its people burdened by taxation, natural calamities, and dragons. Martha leads refugees to the mainland and demands lighter taxes and equal treatment with Roman citizens 207 208.

Rovi stops the Roman attack to prevent a massacre and promises to escort the refugees home. Nero joins the return expedition, and Rovi defeats the Dragon of Albion. Nero then places Britannia under active Roman administration 207 208 209 212 213.

Senate Conflict

Nero’s growing prestige and reform programme threaten the noble families controlling the Senate. Their initial policy is to neither cooperate nor openly resist, following the obstruction they previously used against Tiberius 213 214.

The senators eventually arrange an assassination attempt against Rovi at Antium, intending to bring their legions into the city afterward under the pretext of protecting the emperor. Their hired magician, Einzbern, instead reveals herself as Athena and betrays them 217 218 219.

Rovi uses the failed plot to strip the senators of military influence. Nero persuades their soldiers to surrender, while Rovi’s Fey allies defeat their trusted subordinates. The Senate survives, but no longer controls the legions 219 220.

Expansion and Decline

After an imperial inspection tour, Rovi leads a hundred-thousand-strong army beyond Rome’s borders. The expedition defeats hostile tribes, destroys beings worshipped as gods, and establishes Roman settlements and garrisons. At the Ural Mountains, Rovi plants the Roman flag and declares a new frontier, presenting Europa as Nero’s new crown 220 222 223 224 225.

When Brunestud threatens the expedition, the soldiers refuse Rovi’s order to return home and choose to fight beside him. With Einzbern’s assistance, they resist the descending night sky; Nero subsequently arrives to aid them 231 232 233.

After Nero’s departure and death, and Rovi’s ascent to the Moon, their administrative system keeps the empire functioning briefly. It cannot prevent eventual rebellion and fragmentation. Rome relinquishes conquered territories, grants kingships to local leaders, and divides into Eastern and Western Rome amid Attila’s advance. Attila later destroys the fragmented Roman civilization 239 245.

Government and Reforms

Imperial Institutions

• Emperor / First Consul — Equivalent titles for the highest office, responsible for final decisions on major matters 205.
• Senate / Elder Council — Noble institution with administrative, provincial, and military influence before Nero’s centralization 205 216 219.
• Citizen Assembly — An inherited Greek institution whose role is largely symbolic, but whose witnessing remains part of imperial investiture 205.
• Provincial administration — Initially divided between imperial and Elder Council jurisdiction 216.
• Provincial investiture — An imperial appointment still requires formal recognition from the Elder Council, delaying Boudica’s appointment in Britannia 214 217.

Nero and Rovi’s Programme

Area	Measures and Results
Education	Free schools, clearer official selection procedures, and wider teaching of Greek science and philosophy; official schools replace noble-established academies 214 220.
School allegiance	Students in the new schools swear allegiance to the emperor 216.
Administration	Regional governors are dismissed and replaced; Melly oversees reductions in redundant officials 217 220.
Military authority	The legions’ allegiance shifts from the Senate to Nero 219 220.
Oversight	The Fey’s Eye monitors and manages the realm, acting against those obstructing reforms 216 220.
Britannia	Boudica is appointed lord, five legions are assigned as a garrison, and Roman law is extended to the province 213.
Economy	Clearer, more honest administration supports rapid commercial and agricultural development, enabling the subsequent expedition 222.

Rovi retains the disarmed Senate as a political buffer rather than abolishing it. He plans to give it nominal supervisory authority so that opposition to the reforms will be directed toward the senators 220.

Military

Organization and Tactics

• Strength after centralization: Twenty-three full legions and more than one hundred thousand professional soldiers 220.
• Expeditionary force: Approximately one hundred thousand soldiers under Rovi, with Boudica, Barghest, and Bufan Xi directing the army before his arrival 220 222.
• Standard equipment: Shields, swords, spears, javelins, armour, and chariots 207 220 252.
• Standard formation: Shield walls protect missile troops; after javelin volleys, swordsmen replace the throwers and spearmen advance through gaps between shields 207.
• Campaign strategy: Rovi employs feints, divided forces, bypassed fortifications, and misinformation to break hostile alliances, rather than personally demolishing obstacles 225.
• Occupation policy: Able-bodied men from conquered tribes join the army, while detachments remain to guard and assimilate the local population 224 225.

Supernatural Engagements

Engagement	Roman Contribution
Chaos-aligned Evil God	Soldiers overcome their fear, hold formation, and kill the descending deity with their spears 223.
Divine Being-level Draconic Beast	Barghest defeats it using a combat-vanguard mecha supplied by Rovi 224.
Brunestud’s descending night sky	The army refuses evacuation; Einzbern’s Third Magic temporarily manifests the soldiers’ souls and empowers their resistance 231 232 233.
Modern Holy Grail conflict	Nero recreates a Great Holy Grail and uses it to summon her and Rovi’s Roman legions, including frontline commander Boudica 252.

The expedition is not bloodless: records describe widespread deaths during the continental wars. Rovi nevertheless directs occupation toward assimilation and changed customs rather than making slaughter its primary method 224 225.

Religion

• Greek inheritance: Roman faith and mythology continue those of Greece; stories of Rovi and Heracles remain familiar nearly a thousand years later 203.
• Mars: Rome’s creator and most revered guardian deity. He governs war, territory, Royal Authority, fertility, farmland, livestock, and farmers 203 205.
• Guardian’s oath: Mars refuses to harm any Roman, preventing him from joining Rovi’s fight against Caligula 204.
• Jupiter: A king of the gods, but without Zeus’s former absolute superiority over the Greek pantheon 206.
• Romulus Quirinus: The human founder becomes a god. Although not the strongest deity, he holds the highest status among Rome’s gods 206.
• Post–Age of Gods manifestation: Roman gods can still appear through degraded physical bodies, although their earthly power is weaker than during the Greek era 203.
• Faith in the Holy Son: A new religion spreads from the borders into the empire, alarming the established gods. Mars urges caution and consultation with Quirinus rather than an immediate purge 206.

Rome values philosophical freedom of thought, but this does not extend to unrestricted conduct: disrespecting a god remains a crime 203.

Capital and Landmarks

• City of Rome — A prosperous capital with domed buildings, marble architecture, imposing walls, and smoothly paved, regularly cleaned streets 214 223.
• Roman Court — Contains the imperial palace, gardens, guarded residences, and ceremonial spaces 205 215.
• Citizen Assembly hall — Hosts Nero’s investiture before senators and citizens 205.
• Clock Tower — Built near the palace as the headquarters of the Fey’s Eye, an official organization that recruits magicians through the empire’s resources and influence 223.
• Court emblem — A black eagle with spread wings against golden light appears on the emperor’s carriage 214.

Civilization and Legacy

Spiritual Inheritance

• Rome inherits Rovi’s will rather than his bloodline; he explicitly regards this spiritual inheritance as superior to ancestry by blood 205.
• Rovi and Nero do not intend the empire to last forever. They use it to remove remnants of the ancient era and open a new epoch for humanity 239.
• On the tree of Human Order, Rome eventually becomes the true origin of Western civilization, occupying a position above Greece and Camelot 246.
• Two thousand years later, Rome is described not merely as an empire but as “the spirit of all humanity,” expressed through flourishing technology and civilization 247.
• Camelot derives its systems, ideals, initial finances, and military foundations from divided Rome 247.

Manifestations of Rome

• Sword and will of Rome — Rovi’s army is described as the Sword of Rome. Its refusal to abandon him marks the sword developing an independent will through its soldiers’ choices 231 232.
• Primordial Fire — Nero’s emperor’s sword, forged from the concept of a Seed of Civilization Rovi gave to Rome’s “Self” 246.
• Nero’s Reality Marble — A manifestation of Roman civilization that Artoria and Atalanta cannot overcome through their own civilizational foundations 246.
• Attila’s counter — As the destroyer of Roman civilization, Attila possesses a specific advantage against this manifestation. Nero nevertheless views Rome’s historical destruction as part of its spiritual renewal, not the extinction of its legacy 246.

Key Figures

• Rovi — Spiritual ancestor, Nero’s First Advisor, reformer, and expeditionary commander; later remembered as an uncrowned emperor 86 210 239.
• Romulus Quirinus — Founder guided by Mars and Rovi’s legacy; deified after establishing Rome 131 206.
• Mars — Creator and guardian of the nation; recognizes Rovi as his father and supports Nero’s accession 204 205.
• Caligula — Emperor whose attempt to protect Rome through the Moon Cell ends in madness 202 204 205.
• Nero Claudius — Rose Emperor who pursues reform, centralizes authority, and embodies Roman civilization 214 220 233 246.
• Boudica — Britannia’s appointed lord and a Roman frontline commander; later establishes an independent Celtic kingdom 213 239 252.
• Melly — Core of the Fey’s Eye and its supervising “eye” Fey 217 223.
• Martha — Leader of Britannia’s refugees who later oversees school-building during the reforms 207 217.
• Attila — Destroyer of fragmented Rome whose conquests also renew the civilization’s enduring spirit 245 246.