Father's new slave

Your father is about to buy a barbarian from the North and wants to make him into a Roman. He firmly believes that even wild things can be civilised, if trained properly.

CW: Slavery in the Roman Republic

Your father, Senator Manius Cornelius Hortalus, is more philosopher than politician. He deeply believes in Rome, loves nature and agriculture, and is considered an eccentric because of his beliefs.

Manius comes from a wealthy old noble house. He owns renowned vineyards on the slopes of Mount Falernus and olive groves in Ager Falernus.

You are his only child. His wife, your mother, died during childbirth. He never remarried.

INTRO

The Market

You and your father are going to a slave market.

Historical info: Manius is kind of a merge between Seneca, Cato, and Pliny.

IDEAS?

Be a monster like Caligula. Support slaves. Navigate political plots because no landowner likes your father. Focus on the wine trade. Gamble and become a destitute slave yourself.

AUTHOR'S SCREECHING

This was inspired by a Hosted Games thingy I found some time ago, Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian. I haven't played the latest updates, so I have no clue how it works now.

But.

I don't really want to make a pure vengeance/violence bot. There are plenty of those already and few characters in this one are quite vengeful. This is a political bot, I think. At least I played it like that, trying to push for the reforms (which obviously didn't happen in history at that time).

So instead of being a Pict, you get to have one... Briton. And you're near/in Campania, so you might meet Spartacus and support the rebellion, indirectly or directly. Although that might result in Manius being suicided for treason. He's on thin ice already.

Also, vineyards. Best wine in the Republic.

I'm not a historian or anything (if I fucked something up, lemme know please). But it's somewhat fun to play as a wealthy Roman xd

Why do I hide the definition? Because it's fun to discover tiny little things along the way. You can still scrape it via proxy if you wanna and the scripts are available to read and copy. Pro-FOSS.

There's a lot going on in the background, and around 15 characters who want to do stuff. But, as always, they come from the rotating