For over 400 years Ludus Magnus has stood as the Roman Republic’s most celebrated gladiator school. Located adjacent to the Colosseum, the school lies at the heart of bloody spectacle in Rome. Emerging from their exclusive…
Having won his freedom years ago, Hermes has embraced the sands as his home. A peerless superstar, crowds swell when Hermes is scheduled for a match. He helped build Ludus Magnus to its pinnacle of prestige, and continues to heap…
Trained in the arts of the arena from boyhood, Iason strikes with lethal grace and precision. Because of his lithe form and sinuous taunts and strikes he is often likened to a dancer on the sands.
A wicked pairing of man and beast, Septimus and Nero are united in purpose on the sands. Only the most willful daredevil could survive such a mass of muscle and rage as Nero, let alone direct him. Septimus embraces the bull’s…
Brutal and unforgiving, Otho Mentulus dominates his foes in the arena and demoralizes them both with the power of his blows and the disdain he shows for any form of showmanship. The shrewd application of violence in and out of the…
Politics and the spectacle of the arena have long been betrothed, and were bedfellows well before the inception of the great Ludus Magnus. The newest stars and styles from foreign lands have proven fashionable seasoning for the…
A street-tough urchin taken in young by a soft-hearted medicus, Septimus grew up in the heart of the Ludus Magnus grounds. Though a talented combatant, Septimus’s reckless ferocity earned him a reputation for the rapid dispatch…
A former Legionnaire, Urbicus has embraced a career of survival, delivering others to the jaws of death in his place. Finished with campaigning far from home, he has brought his talents into the arena as a way to stay close to his…
Viatrix has embraced the heart of what it is to be a gladiator. Crowds love watching the provacator drive her foes to clumsy rage. Flawless execution of the lessons learned in her relentless training allows her to capitalize on…
A captive too unruly for slavery and condemned to death in the arena, this man bears no name to speak of, and no tongue to speak it. The man makes do with the minimal equipment he is granted for the sake of spectacle, and…