#caesar's legion

"Your chariot awaits at Caesar's Legion!"

Founded by high school history professor Edward Sallow, Caesar's Legion gained notoriety for acquiring an ever-growing series of other small dealerships through technically legal but ethically heinous practices.

Yes, everyone still cosplays as Romans. It's the company uniform.

Head of Human Resources Lanius (still wearing the mask) ensures that only the worthy pass the interview process. Underperforming sales associates fear his wrath.

Head of Sales Vulpes Inculta is a smooth-talking conman who gets you off the floor and out the door before you realize you spent way more than your initial budget. He pits customers against each other to create false pressure for a great deal that's going to slip through their fingers and go to that other guy unless they sign right now.

Joshua Graham's name has been erased from all but the most mandatory company records. He was fired after failing to close a deal that would have led to the Legion acquiring New California Roadsters.

Ulysses was once a student in Sallow's class who met 'Caesar' after his former teacher bought out the auto body repair shop where he worked. Initially fine with working for someone he used to look up to, Ulysses became disillusioned by the Legion's poor treatment of its lower-ranking employees and quit after a few months.

Onsite security is technically provided by an independent firm, but the 'Praetorian Guard' gets paid extra if they cosplay. Lucius was the first to agree, and he didn't know about the bonus at the time.

The time has come, I ran into a wall regarding Legion headcanons. Honorifics have defeated me. I can't settle on an idea. So, the Romans weren't big on titles, people had a name for a reason, and so you would refer to people by their name or perhaps their rank. Easy and understandable, but boring to copy in my opinion.

It's true that dominus/domina as well as erus/era were oftentimes used, especially by servants and slaves, but Roman naming conventions differ from our own. I like the idea of cognomen given how the names and families of the Legion are still taking form but that would require to give each individual a new name, and as for my lord/my lady/your highness/your grace all feel too Medieval and too British to me for the setting.

Perhaps I can give it another thought and copy the Byzantines (after all Joshua knows Ancient Greek too). But I find the same problem, nobilissimus/nobilissima, despotes/despotess (in feminine form also could be despótissa or despoina) don't fit quite right in the Legion for me.

I wouldn't be surprised though if Caesar took a lot of titles, making his introduction very grandiose and ceremonial, taking both titles and honorifics in Greek and Latin. Imagine him throwing some panhypersebastos (venerable above all) there, or doing something redundant and absurd like Caesar Rex Basileus (king king).

(Imo they're severely missing out. Men in skirts are good, but women in cool armor? Oof. I know, canon lore or whatever, but I can dream.)

Good evening and thank you so much for asking ♥️

Well, while I don't think the Legion would allow female warriors as a norm, if we engage in Legion analysis as if they were a real society in our world, they would undoubtedly have important female warriors, both mythical and historical (since a female courier can side with them, she can become a legendary figure for generations to come).

In the Ancient World we have myths like the Amazons, daughters of Ares, and we also have female goddess associated with war (in Greek mythology alone, besides Athena we have Eris, goddess of discord, Alala, the personification of the war cry, Enyo, known as "sister of war", and even the goddess Aphrodite was represented sometimes with war-like attributes, making her Aphrodite Areia et cetera, plus all thier Roman counterparts). I wouldn't be surprised if some powerful men claimed to be descendants of figures like them, or for a female courier to be associated with them.

Irl female warriors and commanders are celebrated too, especially to elevate national myths, which I think would be part of the construction of the Legion's national identity as time passes. You have a long list of historical women who have become a symbol of national strength and identity for several nations (Maria Pita in Spain, Las Adelitas in México, Joan of Arc in France, as well as how the personification of several nations is a woman), as well as women who, while not combatants, where in the frontline with the men (from Agrippina the Elder to WW2 nurses). Women are sometimes used to depict the spirit of a territory or a nation, so a female courier could become that for the Legion.

Long story short, yes, it could be totally in canon for a woman under Caesar to wear cool armor and I may use that post to give my courier some Legion drip. She's an independent courier, but the multiverse exists and in some instances she wears gold