Imperator

They don't like each other.

It's literally just the church has to deal with the Imperator, and because the Imperator has an Imperial Institute of Physics and Sorcerers, it's, it is in the church's best interest in order to play nice.

But if the church had their way, they would, well, they would burn them all.

You know what I mean? Um, so it's only the Imperator's, uh, you know, political might, you know, that, uh, that prevents them from doing that.

And-

And is that the relationship specific to Dolmenwood, or is that the relationship specific to the Pelagic Church?

So, um, this knight rose to fame during the, um, war against the Cold Prince, uh, over 900 years ago.

Now, this was when, as I told you before, the Cold Prince was a fairy lord, um, that, uh, ruled over Dolmenwood with the cruelest of winters across the entire land, right? So eventually, mortals rose up against his, his dominion and, uh, waged war against him, um, uh, vying for control of Dolmenwood and trying to break the spell of eternal winter that was laid over it by the Cold Prince.

He also appointed his senior-most allies, such as the general Marcus Agrippa, to other positions of power.

Finally, he adopted the title of princeps and took the name Imperator Caesar Augustus.

Augustus means revered, and Caesar was adopted in honor of his great uncle Julius Caesar.

Princeps means first citizen and was adopted by Augustus to signify that he was now the first citizen of the Roman Republic.

But historians have come to see the title Imperator, which means commander, as the more significant.

From it stems the word emperor, and it is that which Augustus would eventually become, Rome's first emperor.

And the family which he had founded with Livia, the Julio-Claudians, named for their descent from the Julia and Claudian clans, became the first imperial dynasty of this new Roman Empire which replaced the Roman Republic.

Then at some point in six AD, Augustus made the decision to renounce Agrippa Postumus's position as one of his heirs due to what he called Postumus's beastly nature.

October 10th, 2119, New San Francisco.

Today at precisely nine fifty AM, Kile became first Imperator of Terra.

His coup was so fantastically direct and facile that I am almost tempted to believe the old cliché, the time was right.

Well, however badly it can be expressed, I suppose the world was ripe for this sort of thing.

Terms at dkng.co slash offer.

I must see if any of the old ledgers are about.

I'd like to see what the Imperator's name was when his most imperial majesty was an apprenticed nobody.

October 12, 2119, New San Francisco.

And the

Imperator is making a remembrance of Germanicus on the Rhine, and we miss him a great deal.

Yes, today's

a two-year anniversary of the loss of their son, so he's in no condition to be here.

Yes.

Although technically...

The Imperator could baptize you.

Yes.

So this is now we're getting into silver.

This is King George V Imperator, the 1935 dollar.

And this is a classic motif we see in a lot of Canadian dollars of the two natives in a canoe.

And 1935.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then Rex is just Latin for king.

Imperator, Latin for emperor, because again, up until 1947, the king of England was also the emperor of India.

Yes.

And he's had some good stallions.

But Imperators, Insecret, Charmstone, Fedora, Loving Gabby, I'm a Star, Invincibella, Mirabi, My Gladiola.

There's just Uhud.

There's so many group ones.

Sulla reluctantly agreed, even though Pompey was a young man who had not attained the necessary senatorial rank to receive the honor of a triumph.

On the 12th of March 81 BC, at the age of only 24, Pompey was saluted as Imperator, or Commander, at Rome as he celebrated the first of what would be three triumphs in the city.

In 79 BC, Pompey married Mucia Tertia, his third wife in just seven years.

In the period that followed, he capitalized on the renown he had gained during Sulla's civil war, involving himself in the politics of the Republic as the dictator went into retirement and figures like Sulla's old ally Quintus Lutatius Catullus and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus vied for prominence.