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  • [Thoughts of an Iceni gladiator, awaiting the opening of the arena portcullis:]
  • [Memories of rebellion (Carnage at Camulodunum):]
  • [Iceni Messenger:] Hearken! The Ninth Legion has been put to the sword! The
  • war-Chief of Queen Boudicca: Onwards to Camulodunum... wet your swords!
  • Redden the earth with Roman blood!
  • I remember the carnage at Camulodunum...
  • The glorious clash of Celtic sword against Roman gladius,
  • The pride in the eyes of our war-queen
  • As we hacked down the Imperial Eagle,
  • And the severed heads of centurions gaping atop our spears.
  • [Bloodshed and Battle: 61 AD (C.E.)]
  • They had gone too far, these invaders from the east, with their imperial eagle
  • which they dared to drive into our sacred soil... pompously claiming our
  • island as their own. They who marched across the world expanding their empire
  • all for the greater glory of their succession of debauched emperors, reclining
  • upon their ivory thrones in the heart of sweltering Rome. Aye, they had gone
  • too far... After their brutal annexation of our sovereign Iceni lands and the
  • vile rape of our Queen Boudicca's royal daughters, the Romans had the sown the
  • fields of carnage and they would reap a grim harvest of slaughter, without
  • doubt! They had enraged the Red Queen, and by the gods, they would pay!
  • We certainly taught the arrogant invading dogs a lesson, at any rate. The
  • omens and portents spoke of vast bloodshed and great carnage, and after our
  • slaughterous victories at Camulodunum (the Temple of Claudius burned
  • wonderfully!), Londinium and Verulanium, the cursed Romans finally dared to
  • meet us honourably upon the field of war at Mandeussedum. They sent fifteen
  • thousand legionaires, their armour gleaming like gold in the sun... but it

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