Tangled Mind

Better to remember the high moors beyond Credigone; better to remember the hunting fire and the shared laughter, and leave the rest to the wolves. [loc. 3067]

Alexios Flavius Aquila, nephew of the Roman Governor of Northern Britain, is promoted beyond his abilities. He makes a catastrophic error of judgement and is responsible for many deaths in an ill-advised retreat from Abusina, a fort on the Danube. Because of his uncle's influence, he is given another command rather than being discharged from the army: but his new command is an auxiliary cohort, the Frontier Scouts, 'the scum and scrapings of the Empire ... ( Read more... )