Overlord I: Bloodline

The year is 142 AD, the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
Five generations have passed since the dark forests of the north swallowed Varus’s battle-hardened legions. The slow rust of time blunted the sting of that humiliating defeat until all that remained of the shame was faded letters inked on brittle parchment.
In the ensuing years, Rome disdained facing the Germani on the field of blood. Instead, the Empire bought peace with gold while sowing the poison of discord among the northern clans, allowing the frontier legions to grow soft behind their stone ramparts.
Then came Emperor Traianus, whose conquests further inflamed the hubris of the men of consequence until they believed the Empire eternal, untouchable and divine.
Great powers care little what embers they recklessly cast into the abyss, and the fires of Traianus’s eastern campaign spawned an unintended consequence. In the shadows, a chain reaction has begun – one that has set an ancient bloodline of warlords on an unstoppable collision course with the most powerful empire the world has ever seen.
Rome is oblivious to what it has awakened.
Soon, it will bleed for its ignorance.