#1 – The Fort
Dacia, AD 105. Flavius Ferox is sent beyond the Danube to command an isolated fort during the uneasy peace between Trajan’s Rome and King Decebalus. His garrison includes unreliable Brigantian troops, ambitious Roman officers and men whose loyalty is uncertain from the moment he arrives. The…
#2 – The City
Nicopolis, AD 114. Ferox is sent to the eastern frontier while a Roman army lays siege to a city beyond the empire’s normal limits. He remains tied to Hadrian’s service and carries the burden of a suspended death sentence after earlier violence within the army. The…
#3 – The Wall
Northern Britain under Hadrian. Flavius Ferox returns to the frontier where his story began, now dominated by the construction and military logic of Hadrian’s Wall. The imperial frontier promises order but also exposes soldiers and civilians to raiding, smuggling and political calculation. Ferox is drawn into…