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Gaius

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Gaius is the younger brother of the mage Castor in the campaign Mürekkep ve Çelik ("Ink and Steel"), the son of the carpenter Felix and his wife Claudia of North Razer, and brother of Julia. He attends the legionary school and is not married.123

The legionary school

When Castor came home, Gaius arrived in legionary dress, taking off his segmented armour, and greeted him as his elder brother. He had enrolled at the school in excitement during the war below, though he was too young to fight in it. His officer's examination was due the following week at the academy towards White City: by his own account only one candidate in a hundred passes; if he passed he would begin as a centurion, and if not as a legionary. A good part of his father's money went to his schooling. He does well at sword drill but struggles with questions of history and tactics.456

He told Leonard that the school trains first for fitness, with ten-kilometre runs in full gear, then for unit tactics and guarding the man beside you with the shield, and then for history and the history of war. He had studied the siege of the Third City, the drow city, as a lesson in tactics, though the special unit Leonard served in was not mentioned. Leonard told him that soldiering is honourable but war is not what it looks like from outside; Gaius said that in the legion guarding White City he might never see a battle, but would remember the advice. Castor and Leonard urged him not to skip the theory if he wished to command.78910

That night he sparred with Leonard using wooden swords. His footwork and short sword strokes were good for his age, and he used armour and shield well, but without a shield or formation he left his left side open, and he tired quickly in a long fight. Leonard advised daily training, showed him how a long weapon keeps a short sword at bay, and taught him to disarm an opponent.11121314

Family

Gaius has his own pay and needs nothing, he says, but his father's business has worsened as he ages, and since Felix will not accept money from him directly he tries to leave it through Flavia. Few legionaries come from the village, he explained, because in its fertile land people have plots of their own. Castor left money in his father's chest for the family, his brother and sister.151617

Flavia, an orphan of sixteen or seventeen whom Felix has raised since infancy and counts as his own daughter, helps Claudia in the house; she is not Gaius's wife. Felix meant her for Marcus, a woodcutter with work and a small house, but she loved Pik, a young travelling trader not from the town. Castor met Pik in the grove; Pik admitted that he smuggled and owned one of the houses he stayed in, and refused Castor's help. Castor slipped money into Flavia's pocket so that she could come home if she needed to, and she rode off with Pik, leaving a note. When Felix found it and took up an axe to go after her, Gaius made a show of riding out to search but did not truly go.1819202122

Later

A tribune later told Castor that his brother would come to serve under his command. After the battle at the Dwarf Gate, Castor asked an officer at the palace to find word of his brother, giving his name as Gaius Onerio and saying that he had gone to the legionary academy about a year and a half before; whether Gaius had been in the battle was not known.2324

Notes

  1. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:08:43
  2. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:11:26
  3. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:53:20
  4. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:23:43
  5. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:39:48
  6. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:40:59
  7. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:56:26
  8. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:00:15
  9. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:00:45
  10. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:01:37
  11. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:22:32
  12. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:24:24
  13. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:26:52
  14. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:27:43
  15. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:11:37
  16. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:12:50
  17. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 3:18:24
  18. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 1:00:52
  19. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 2:03:25
  20. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 3:13:10
  21. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 3:14:32
  22. ↑At the tableSakin Bir Gün | DnD 5e Oynanış #4 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #4), 3:20:42
  23. ↑At the tableBazıları İçin Yolun Sonu | DnD 5E Oynanış #7 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #7), 1:39:47
  24. ↑At the tableCüce Kapısı Muharebesi ve Alışılmadık Tez | DnD 5e Oynanış #11 (Mürekkep ve Çelik #11), 1:01:01

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