"Be wary, Augustus, for I am the 'letter' sent to speak of your death," he quotes himself. "Back around the turn of the first age, the world was entwined in the first real world war. No one called it that mostly due to the lack communication between cities and townships. If you were a gambler at the time, the safe bet would be to say Augustus the Sicilian would become the ruler of the world. He was a bronze age Colonial Gaddafi. People liked him. He was a military leader turned king. His ideals were a decade ahead of his time. He had the aid of the at the time 'orthodox church.' Worst off, he was smart. He built forts with their backs to the oceans and towns on hillsides."