Sublime

Zivilisation ist zum Synonym für Frieden und Fortschritt geworden, während die Wildnis für Krieg und Untergang steht. In Wirklichkeit war es für den größten Teil unserer Geschichte genau umgekehrt.

child, often the smallest or weakest of the flock, as I was, is named after the most despicable things: demon, ghost child, pig snout, monkey-born, buffalo head, bastard—little dog being the more tender one. Because evil spirits, roaming the land for healthy, beautiful children, would hear the name of something hideous and ghastly being called in f

A voiceless, formless force of determination. A will that would conquer rather than surrender. Akura Malice.

no claims to literary or rhetorical education and no political ambition, who spent the whole of the first half of his life as a slave. He was a lifelong cripple, probably the result of having his leg broken by a cruel owner in early life. But he was brought to Rome in his youth and owned by Nero’s secretary, the freedman Epaphroditus.