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The Last Legion

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The Last Legion	comment	The Roman Empire is falling, crumbling into disrepair. In the last five years there have been five Caesars, and every one was murdered.Now the title of Caesar, highest office in Ancient Rome, must fall to the shoulders of a young boy, Romulus Augustus. Scared, naive, and unprepared, he is barely on the throne for a few days when the dreaded Goths supporting the chieftain Odoacer descend upon Ravenna and kill everyone except the Emperor, his mother Flavia and his tutor, the Briton druid Meridius Ambrosius, AKA Myrdin Emreis. Deposed and exiled to the island of Capri, Romulus is rescued by a small band of loyal soldiers, the only survivors of the legion Nova Invicta, an elite force recruited by his father Orestes. But not before uncovering an ancient sword and the prophecy attached to it. Pursued by the Goths, the heroes are led by the prophecy to the faraway lands of Britain where Romulus must find his destiny.L'Ultima legione, as it's called in the original italian, is an action adventure novel made in 2002, freely based off the story of the last days of the Roman Empire, created by Valerio Massimo Manfredi.
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The Last Legion / int_1373df15	type	City on the Water
The Last Legion / int_1373df15	comment	City on the Water: Livia Prisca is from a very promising village, built in a easily-defensible lagoon by refugees from all the parts of Italy. The name of said village is Venetia.
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The Last Legion / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The Last Legion / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Livia believes Aurelius was the man who saved her life during the Sack of Aquileia, and it's partially the reason why she fell for him. She's right, but for most of the plot he's amnesiac about those events, out of guilt and trauma as it turns out.
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The Last Legion / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
The Last Legion / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Within the Western Empire everyone is trying to balance between their own survival, survival of the state and protection of the emperor. Eventually most of Romans dedide to simply team up with the stronger side and drop their own agendas.
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The Last Legion / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Last Legion / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Ambrosinus, by the sheer virtue of being Merlin.
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The Last Legion / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Last Legion / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Ambrosinus gives opening and closing narration, and this is invoked at the end.
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The Last Legion / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
The Last Legion / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Wulfilia nearly kills Aurelius in the final battle, but knows when to back off when Romulus points the sword of Caesar at his neck. He even takes the boy into his arms when the sword goes into his heart.
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The Last Legion / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
The Last Legion / int_19d06ef7	comment	Flavius Orestes is the father of Romulus, the kid protagonist, seemingly A Father to His Men and a good husband and father, he did some cutthroat plotting to seize power putting his son in a dangerous situation. Also Odoacer claims that Orestes deceived him by making promises that he did not intend to keep, and Orestesâ€™ conversation with his wife implies that Odoacer was telling the truth.
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The Last Legion / int_19e13868	type	Ancient Rome
The Last Legion / int_19e13868	comment	Ancient Rome: Technically still counts, though it covers (in a fictional sense) the final events of its history. See the Dark Age Europe entry.
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The Last Legion / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
The Last Legion / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: When Romulus finally takes the caliburian sword of Caesar and puts it into Wulfila. And Aurelius avenging his parents killed by Wulfila in Aquileia.
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The Last Legion / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Last Legion / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: The novel depicts the final nail in the coffin of the Western Roman empire. Rome is no longer capitol and after Romulus is deposed, there won't be another Emperor again and in the following centuries, the former empire will be ruled by one Germanic tribe after the other.
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The Last Legion / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Last Legion / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: Aurelius is the general of the Emperor's bodyguard, comprising a legion. They're not actual Praetorians, though - those were disbanded centuries earlier.
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The Last Legion / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The Last Legion / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Odoacer sends Wulfila to his quest for Romulus hoping that if he fails he won't come back, as Wulfila disapproves his increasing assimilation to Roman ways and Odoacer wants to get rid of that noise.
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The Last Legion / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
The Last Legion / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Romulus Augustus, the last Roman emperor, was named after the founder of Rome and the first Roman emperor. Truth in Television.
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The Last Legion / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Last Legion / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Played straight. The Goths actually fear him because many of them never saw a black guy in their lives. But for those who know him personally he's a Gentle Giant.
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The Last Legion / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
The Last Legion / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: The protagonists travel from sunny, decadent Naples through Alps, Gaul to war-torn Britannia, crossing un unstable continent during a particularly cold winter.
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The Last Legion / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Last Legion / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Batiatus is a Scary Blackman to those who don't know him, but he's actually one of the nicest characters, and one of the very few barbarians admitted on Nova Invicta, and one of the most feared soldiers in it.
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The Last Legion / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Last Legion / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Happens to both Aurelius and the young Emperor Romulus.
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The Last Legion / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Last Legion / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Upon finding a prophecy that leads them to Britain, the heroes look for the Ninth Legion, presumably the "last legion" loyal to Rome. But they've settled down as farmers. What Romulus does in the end. He becomes King Arthurâ€™s father.
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The Last Legion / int_42c7961d	type	The Only One I Trust
The Last Legion / int_42c7961d	comment	The Only One I Trust: After being betrayed by everyone, Aurelius declares that his small pack are the only people he still trusts.
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The Last Legion / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
The Last Legion / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Odoacer on Flavia Serena; Stephanus on Livia
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The Last Legion / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
The Last Legion / int_440d1d0b	comment	Also the entire scheme of smuggling Romulus to Constantinople. They finally saved the boy when the Eastern emperor decided that after all, it's more convenient letting Odoacer ruling Italy, so he won't protect Romolus. The crew decides Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! and flee to Britain with the boy.
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The Last Legion / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
The Last Legion / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: The crew travels from Naples across Europe to seek refuge in Britain.
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The Last Legion / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Last Legion / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: The last Western Roman Emperor is a boy.
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The Last Legion / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Last Legion / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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The Last Legion / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
The Last Legion / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Wulfila has a huge scar deforming his face, courtesy of Aurelius the first time he tried to free Romulus.
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The Last Legion / int_4fd47ee6	type	Dark Age Europe
The Last Legion / int_4fd47ee6	comment	Dark Age Europe: Being set during the final days of the Western Roman Empire, the novel does a good job in depicting how culture was steadily shifting towards proto-medieval ways: Latin spoken language is starting to collapse into different dialects, as the characters note traveling from Southern to Northern Italy. Said dialects would form the Romance languages; More characters wear breeches like the Barbarians as they are actually more comfortable for horse-riding, and the pattern would keep going in the following centuries; Barbarians are not one-sided characters (save for Wulfila, maybe) but some like Odoacer are willing to adapt to Roman customs and do understand that they need to compromise with the Church and the Roman institutions if they want to rule in the long run.
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The Last Legion / int_4ffde1e0	type	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
The Last Legion / int_4ffde1e0	comment	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Vatrenus uses a sword and buckler.
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The Last Legion / int_500ecfb7	type	The Big Guy
The Last Legion / int_500ecfb7	comment	The Big Guy: Batiatus might look it and he uses a big sword, but he's really a Gentle Giant and the best fighter among the heroes is probably Aurelius.
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The Last Legion / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Last Legion / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Zigzagged. Aurelius and Livia are attracted to each other and make love in the woods halfway in the book believing that they will be separated, but they haven't resolved yet their divergences about Aurelius' past. They become a couple just before the final battle.
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The Last Legion / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
The Last Legion / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Demetrius uses a pair of swords.
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The Last Legion / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Last Legion / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: between Aurelius and Livia. Livia is 10 years younger than Aurelius.
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The Last Legion / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
The Last Legion / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: It's Very Loosely Based on a True Story since the the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was indeed a boy who did disappear from history. But then it ends up being a prequel to the Arthurian Legend. Beyond this, numerous details on the nature of the Roman Empire during its twilight years (and for that matter, its hereditary nature or lack thereof) are right, as with the conflict between the official Christian bishops and the dying pagan religion still present in the countryside the intrigue around Constantinople and their nomineÃ©s to the Western throne, and the tension between the barbarian forces of Odoacer and the Eastern Empire. Odoacer was king of the Herules, not the Goths. It is not know if the Herules were a subgroup of the Ostrogoths, but they were probably of Germanic origin like most of the invading tribes.
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The Last Legion / int_567e2f0	type	No True Scotsman
The Last Legion / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Wulfila holds in contempt Odoacer's increasing assimilation to Roman ways. Odoacer instead thinks that Wulfila could never rule a country, as all he knows about is fighting and killing without seeing a bigger picture.
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The Last Legion / int_5ac8f358	type	Hordes from the East
The Last Legion / int_5ac8f358	comment	Hordes from the East: Livia recalls the destruction of Aquileia by the Huns. Also the Goths can qualify since they came Eastern Europe (and according to History, they were escaping the Huns as well, although some of them joined the Huns).
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The Last Legion / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Last Legion / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Livia Prisca is the only woman in the "legion" and the only prominent female character.
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The Last Legion / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
The Last Legion / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: Wulfila murders the Briton warlord Vortgyrn and wears his Iconic Item to impersonate him.
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The Last Legion / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
The Last Legion / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: Aurelius and Livia. Their relationship stays in the background for the entire story.
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The Last Legion / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Last Legion / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Batiatus is black African, and Ambrosinus is a Celtic Briton.
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The Last Legion / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
The Last Legion / int_7c862b8a	comment	At first, you can easily stereotype the Roman protagonists as the good guys and the barbaric Goths as the villains. Then you learn that there are Germanic people who are willing to adapt to Roman customs, and that the Eastern Roman empire (along with the Western, to tell the truth) is corrupt, greedy and suffers heavily from Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
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The Last Legion / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Last Legion / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The film opens in literal final days of Western Roman Empire.
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The Last Legion / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
The Last Legion / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: Ambrosinus and Aurelius.
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The Last Legion / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Last Legion / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With An S: Vortgyn is better known as Vortigern.
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The Last Legion / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
The Last Legion / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Squad consist of some veterans of different ethnicities, an Action Girl, a Scary Black Man, an old druid and the boy emperor. They know they are easy recognizable and avoid traveling all together for a while.
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The Last Legion / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Last Legion / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Appears to be Odoacer the Goth, but after the heroes flee from Italy it dissapears, and his erstwhile second-in-command Wulfila emerges as the true main villain of the book.
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The Last Legion / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Last Legion / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. Batiatus is the only one of the crew that survives save for Livia and Aurelius.
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The Last Legion / int_97ee3a58	type	Vicariously Ambitious
The Last Legion / int_97ee3a58	comment	Vicariously Ambitious: Flavius Orestes seizes the throne for his young son, against the wishes of his wife and their trusted advisor Ambrosinus. In doing so he pissed off Odoacer (Odoacer says he promised him a third of Italy for his support and then retreat from the promise) leading to his death and downfall.
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The Last Legion / int_98e1780e	type	Sword and Sandal
The Last Legion / int_98e1780e	comment	Sword and Sandal: Technically counts, albeit it takes place at pretty much the tail end of the timespan that "Sword and Sandal" covers.
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The Last Legion / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Last Legion / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Livia Prisca is from a little village inhabited by refugees looking to live in the Roman way, settling in a lagoon that can easily defended from raiding. She believes that their settlement will become an important city in a few generations. The little lake city is no other than the future Venice.
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The Last Legion / int_9f735ee9	type	Pining After Protagonist's Parent
The Last Legion / int_9f735ee9	comment	Pining After Protagonist's Parent: As it turns out, both Ambrosinus and Odoacer had feelings for Romulus' mother.
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The Last Legion / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
The Last Legion / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: Aurelius. He "always was in the Legion, and can't remember anything else". Part of his arc his finding his roots again.
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The Last Legion / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Last Legion / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: The sword of Julius Caesar. Serves as the MacGuffin. Eventually became Excalibur. Absurdly Sharp Blade: After the final battle Romulus declares that there will be no more war and throws the sword up high far away and it embeds itself into a rock.
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The Last Legion / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Last Legion / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: After Rome falls to the Goths, the Senate and an official of the Eastern Roman Empire secretly send people to rescue Romulus and take him to Constantinople. But later they betray the heroes anyway after recognizing Odoacer as legitimate.
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The Last Legion / int_b2c737e8	type	Klingon Promotion
The Last Legion / int_b2c737e8	comment	Klingon Promotion: Odoacer becomes the ruler of Rome by force. Wulfila murders Vortgyrn and takes his place after serving him as a mercenary for a while.
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The Last Legion / int_b51128fa	comment	Ambrosinus theorises that Constantinople would be another Gilded Cage for Romolus, living in luxury but at the mercy of a Decadent Court that would sacrifice him the time he's not useful anymore.
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The Last Legion / int_b66a24a7	type	Trauma-Induced Amnesia
The Last Legion / int_b66a24a7	comment	Trauma-Induced Amnesia: The reason why Aurelius doesn't remember his last. Not only he fought to defend Aquileia during its bloody sack from the Huns, but he's the one who betrayed the city to the Barbarians who viciously tortured his parents until he agreed to open the gates. The grief and guilt, and the near death experience made him amnesiac. Fortunately for him, he's surrounded by people sympathetic to him.
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The Last Legion / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Last Legion / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Sadly, what happens in Derton and in Flavius Orestes' villa. The villa is burned down, every woman raped and killed and the rest murdered as well.
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The Last Legion / int_bb53d08	type	Tear Jerker
The Last Legion / int_bb53d08	comment	Tear Jerker: The fate of the POWs from Legion Nova Invicta after battle; death of Romulusâ€™ parents, with Romulus himself witnessing it; and Aureliusâ€™ Dark and Troubled Past during Sack of Aquileia.
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The Last Legion / int_bc5d7025	type	DecoyAntagonist
The Last Legion / int_bc5d7025	comment	Decoy Antagonist: Odoacer seemed to be the main antagonist during the first part, until he sends Wulfila on his quest for Romulus (and partially to get rid of Wulfila himself) and never appears again on page. Wulfila takes over as the real villain.
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The Last Legion / int_bcff3e56	type	The Last Title
The Last Legion / int_bcff3e56	comment	The Last Title: The title.
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The Last Legion / int_be009544	type	Holy City
The Last Legion / int_be009544	comment	Holy City: Played straight. Rome is both the spiritual center of the empire (although the actual capital of the Western Empire is Ravenna), and the seat of the Pope. All Romans and Italics (and even the barbarians) look at it with reverence.
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The Last Legion / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Last Legion / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Odoacer, King of the Goths, offers to Romulus' mother Flavia Serena (whom he has admired for years) to become his queen, but since he has killed her husband, dethroned & captured her son and annihilated her home she flatly refuses.
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The Last Legion / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Last Legion / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: Constantinople. They start with sending a rescuing mission for the deposed child emperor Romulus, but end up settling in an agreement with Odoacer instead and actively hunting for the main heroes. Ambrosinus also fears that in Constantinople, Romulus will be held as a glorified hostage to be sacrificed as soon as it benefits the court, and wants him to get as far as possible from that place.
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The Last Legion / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Last Legion / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Seems to be superstition, legends, and old cults, and maybe just a little bit of good luck, Romulus's mentor Ambrosinus is revealed to be Merlin in the last few pages of the book. Then again, his only magical act seems to be that he hasn't aged.
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The Last Legion / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Last Legion / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: When it's obvious the Western Empire is on a verge of total collapse, Romans find themselves fighting each other and the Eastern Empire leaves them without any aid.
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The Last Legion / int_d71af7a	type	Rescue Arc
The Last Legion / int_d71af7a	comment	Rescue Arc: After Romulus' exile to Capri, Aurelius and his men are convinced to rescue him and provide safe passage to Constantinople.
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The Last Legion / int_d9f9a94e	type	Lost Roman Legion
The Last Legion / int_d9f9a94e	comment	Lost Roman Legion: The Nova Invicta.
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The Last Legion / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Last Legion / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: After saving Romulus, he and the legion have no place in Rome or what is left of it, so they head to Britain looking for a new home.
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The Last Legion / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
The Last Legion / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Romolus almost dies of hypothermia during their crossing of the Alps. Batiatius, their Gentle Giant, successfully warms him back to life.
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The Last Legion / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Last Legion / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Livia Prisca. She is an archer that saves Aurelio from Wulfila alone.
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The Last Legion / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Last Legion / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: After the final battle Romulus declares that there will be no more war and throws the sword up high far away and it embeds itself into a rock.
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The Last Legion / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Last Legion / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Odoacer, king of the Gothsnote actually chieftain of the Scirians, another German tribe. When Orestes seized power and illegally made his son Romulus emperor, Odoacer put down the rebellion and restored order. Odoacer then pardoned Romulus and sent him to live with his relatives with a comfortable pension.
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The Last Legion / int_e17ca895	type	The Cake Is a Lie
The Last Legion / int_e17ca895	comment	The Cake Is a Lie: Odoacer's casus belli with Orestes was that Odoacer's was promised a piece of the former empire where the Goths would settle in exchange for backing Orestesâ€™ son as emperor. Orestes never meant to keep his word, and tragedy ensues.
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The Last Legion / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Last Legion / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Aurelius and three men are all that remain of their Legion. Also Romulus is the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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The Last Legion / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Last Legion / int_e4b69188	comment	It's Very Loosely Based on a True Story since the the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was indeed a boy who did disappear from history. But then it ends up being a prequel to the Arthurian Legend.
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The Last Legion / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Last Legion / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The eponymous Last Legion.
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The Last Legion / int_eb88956c	type	Language Drift
The Last Legion / int_eb88956c	comment	Language Drift: In their traveling across Europe the party note how much different the Latin dialect from Italy to Haul sound. It was pretty much Truth in Television, as Vulgar Latin was different from Classical Latin (the one still taught in schools) and was starting to fragment in different languages long before the fall of the Western Empire.
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The Last Legion / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
The Last Legion / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Many Roman characters, as Aurelius or Ursinus, and many common people that help them to escape from the Goths. Also Ambrosinus with Romulus.
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The Last Legion / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Last Legion / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Aurelius and his companions are the last survivors of their legion and bend to protect their emperor.
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The Last Legion / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
The Last Legion / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Wulfila killed Romulus's parents , Romulus vows to avenge them and succeeds. Wulfila ALSO killed Aureliusâ€™ parents, after brutal torture, during Sack of Aquileia
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The Last Legion / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Last Legion / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Wulfila greatly overestimates his chances of chasing the group.
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The Last Legion / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
The Last Legion / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Although Romulus is already famous on his own, he's revealed to be the future Uther Pendragon, King Arthur's father.
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