He aspired to be the standard in any hypostasis – commander, warrior, ruler, sage and leader, and passed on his ideals to the legion, which embraced an indefatigable striving for perfection in war. For the Empire and its master, vanity and arrogance came at the cost of all-extinguishing ambitions, quickly entangling them in the baskets of the Emperor’s conspiracy. And the one who was supposed to be a dazzlingly brightly flaming bird became a dark snake.