<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"> OOC Thread  (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=84591.0)<br/> IC *Chapter One: Introductions** (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=85021.0)<br/>Characters (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=84896.0)<br/> Join (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=84379.0;topicseen)</span></span></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Rules:</strong><br/>-HAVE FUN<br/>-Please limit your post to two post per character per day. (Some people work/real life happening and can not post as much as others)<br/>-Please try to read everyone's post to understand whats happening in the story and around your character.<br/>-DID I SAY HAVE FUN!!!!</span><br/><hr/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b9/Gladiator_by_omeruysal.jpg) (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=85021.0)<br/><br/><div class="codeheader">Code: <a class="codeoperation" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[url=http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=85021.0][IMG]http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b9/Gladiator_by_omeruysal.jpg[/img][/url]</code></pre><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"># Cubiculum: A bedroom.<br/># Culina: Kitchen<br/># Atrium: In the most ancient times of Rome the atrium was the area where much of family life went on. The atrium was rather like a central courtyard in the house with a rectangular opening in the roof above it (the compluvium) providing air and light. A rectangular basin in the ground (impluvium) corresponded to the opening above in order to collect rain water. All major living areas of Roman homes had direct access to the atrium.<br/># Impluvium: A rectangular section dug into the ground of the atrium into which rain water was collected as and when it fell in from the compluvium.<br/># Triclinium: The dining room<br/># Piscina: Pool/fountain in the centre of the peristyle/garden.<br/># Posticum: Back entrance to the house.<br/># Tablinum: In Rome's earliest days the tablinum was the pater familias' private study. A sort of drawing room or lounge.<br/># Oecus: A hall which could be used for receptions and meetings with friends.<br/># * Villas would even have their own roman baths. In their simplest form there would be two rooms: the first would be used as changing room and as Tepidarium (luke warm water bath). The second was the Caldarium (Hot water bath). The rooms would have few if any windows in order to preserve the heat of the water. The bath might therefore be excavated in a basement area where it would be easiest to conserve heat.<br/>    * *The richest houses would have an extra bath called a Frigidarium (an indoor cold bath) and a Natatio (an open air swimming pool).</span></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><div align="center">(http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb395/Angzyn/RomanHome.png)</div><br/><div class="floatright">(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Ancient%20Rome/Interiors/PosticumDoorToStreet01.jpg)</div>House of Caelius; they where not the richest family in Rome, but they where one of the most renown when it came to life around the arena. Their wine was good but not the best, however, their Gladiators where prized by any that saw them fight. Fierce beings that fought like the God of War and Death himself. The blood of their opponents was quick to rain upon the sand. Marcus Caelius was their Lanista, like his father and his father’s father. The wine fields being given to him when he married his second wife whom he married after first wife died not long after the birth of his first son.<br/><br/>With his second wife he had a second son….and a daughter who would fetch a high Tocher (Dowry) for both her beauty and family’s status among the people of Rome. A price that Marcus was not willing to pay for any man to take his child’s hand. No, the money could be better spent investing into their family. Mostly his beloved Gladiators. Something that quickly grew sour on the young Ovinus’ tongue. Both her mother and brothers had tried to reason with her, explain to her the reason but still the thought of not marrying did not sit well with the young girl.<br/><br/>After all she was growing into a fine young woman at the age of seventeen and had needs that only a man could fill.<br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Ancient%20Rome/Interiors/Hortus01.jpg)</div>Yet, her days where spent among the walls of her father’s villa. A home the arena winnings paid for. The Fauces, the front door and entry way of the home, was large and grand. The door itself made from wood from a far off land that Ovinus had never heard of. Leading into the large Atrium with it’s vast Impluvium. The compluvium over head a rich red color with its large opening over the Impluvium to let in fresh rain water along with the bright sun and clean air. From there one could enter the baths or the Oecus, the room in which most of the family receptions and meeting took place when they wished to host their friends.<br/><br/>Marcus’ Tablinum could also be found connected to the Atrium. The slave quarters found out of the eye of the public by ways of the Alas.<br/><br/>Past the Atrium was the peristyle with its piscine. All the family and guest cubiculum’s found around the grand garden area. As was the Culina and Triclinium. Toward the back of the house was finally the large closed in garden called the Hortus. And in the Hortus was the balcony that looked over the Gladiator’s training yard. It was here the Oecu spent most her time. Watching her father’s warriors train and fight. A strange lust starting to build inside her that she had never felt as a child.<br/><br/>She had always loved her father’s Gladiators, even as a child. Yet, as time went on and she grew in age the feelings she had for these men seemed to change. Something the young woman had never truly felt before. Often, even as a child her mother scolded her for spending to much time upon the Balcony watching such things. But she could not help it. She found it relaxing, peaceful….her own sanctuary from her family’s will to keep her locked away from a world she had never really seen. Or at less that’s how the young woman felt. Her imagination keeping her happy for the time being. Dreams of a life she might never have and some might thing of as foolish.<br/><div class="floatright">(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk137/HaibaneR/Ancient%20Rome/Interiors/A-Family-Meal.jpg)</div>Even now she was there in her own little world. With her slave standing by, bright eyes watching over the men below as the started their early morning training. Hell, the cock’s had not even started to crow yet. The sun just peeking over the mountains to the East. The cool air signaling the arrival of the autumn months, as if one could not see season coming from the leaves turning. Already the trees in the peristyle and hortus had started to turn. Ovinus loved this time of year. The colors, the smells of the harvest, even the wine from this time of year tasted better to her. Plus, there was just something magical about this season that only made her heart flutter.<br/><br/>Already fresh bread could be smelt cooking in the Culina, eyes catching view of a few slaves picking fresh fruit from the trees in the hortus. This signaled to her that her father, mother and brothers would be awaking soon and a new day was soon to start. The slaves about to be busy fetching both water for baths and drink as well as wine. Dinner and lunch would start to be cooked and prepared for later on in the day. Plus seeing it was the end of the month already her father’s new shipment of Gladiators would be arriving around high noon.<br/>Today would indeed prove itself a busy one…