<div class="floatleft">(http://rpgs.chrisbradleywriter.com/images/d/d4/Octavian.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Octavian Lucius John Augustus, Duke of Ynysia<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Castle<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Katherine, Anders, Evelyn, Hetshepsit, Pamine, open.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"I am an interesting man," he said to Hetshepsit with a bright smile and a slight bow.    "And all battles are interesting, even when they are terrible, as all lives are funny, even when they are tragic."  He looked at her, his eyes sharp.  "There is glory<i>only</i>in battle, in victory and in dying well, at least for us mortals.<br/><br/>"Foreigners are so charming in their ignorance.<i>Of course</i>, I have seen battle.  Am I not the Duke of Ynysian?"  He said it with humor.  No Ynysian could be declared a leader without success in battle.  "Most of my wars, I fear, in places you haven't heard about.  I destroyed the Ce Mar and laid waste to the towns and cities of Fortriu, whose capital had a hundred and fifty thousand souls.  My men, less than a thousand, slaughtered eight thousand by the River of Blood in an hour and I took the King of Fortriu prisoner with my own hands after slaying nine in his guard.  He's in an apartment in Maegonstat, now, under armed guard, with six of his wives, which is better than he planned for me.  Then I ravaged the coast for a thousand miles, not even counting rivers, I burned every town and city I saw and killed their men, made their women and children slaves, took their wealth for my own.  I did this for three years, until I ran out of civilized lands.  The lesson, there, is to never start a war that you can't finish and the people paid the price for the King of Fortriu's arrogance.<br/><br/>"Keep your moral judgments to yourself, though, or at least give the more substance or speak about them in a more entertaining way.  All kingdoms are bought with battle, all peace paid for in blood.  There are no kings without wars, and without kings we would be reduced to mere anarchy - which is worse than even battle.  War is the price of civilization."<br/><br/>He paid more attention to the scout than he seemed.  Nothing would be learned today, though with such intelligence Octavian would be reviewing the forces at his disposal, their disposition and location.  But people could only do one thing at a time.