Year: 888 AD
Caesarian Empire
Province of New Cincinnatus
St. John's Abbey
A few weeks ago
Inside the grand abbey of St. John, an intense debate was taking place between the archbishop of New Cincinnatus, Simeon Niketas, and the monk of the monastic order of Saint Benedict, Valerius Athanasius.
Then the Archbishop of New Cincinnatus says:
"You are reviving the Arian heresy and flirting with Montanism!!! Christ has both his human part and his divine part, the Councils of Nicea and Constantinople I, condemned Arianism and other heresies! Their ideas have already been refuted for more than two centuries, you are trying to create enemies just as the heretic Arius converted the Germanic tribes their heresy!" says Simeon.
Valerius then replied:
"Your Excellency, I had a vision of Saint Stephen and he commanded me to spread the gospel of Christ in a different way than the Church commands.He told me that the Apaches and other native tribes of Paulistania and Canada would be converted in the way I am doing in Leostinople." replied Valerius.
The archbishop, already losing patience, says:
"How dare you utter such a lie?!??!? Using one of the Church's first martyrs for your Montanist musings!??!? You are forging enemies for the Caesarian Empire and the Church!!! You, like the heretical Bishop Montana, are misleading hundreds or thousands of natives with your blurred and heretical vision! You are forbidden to leave this province until the Bishop of New Rome decide whether or not to excommunicate you from the Church." says Simeon.
The monk leaves the abbey mortally angry with the Archbishop of New Cincinnatus and shouts:
"YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU'VE MESSED WITH, YOU MEDDLY ARCHBISHOP!!!!! I'M A DESCENDANT OF ALARIC AND JUST LIKE HIM I WILL DESTROY THE POWER OF ROME IN NEW WORLD!!!!!!!" shouts Valerius.
Province of New Cincinnatus
Hotel Ebesus
Two months ago
The monk of the order of Saint Benedict, whose real name is Pelagius Ataulfo, secretly met with the Centuriom Rodrigo Angelo and Primus Pilus Roderico, the shrewd, were in the monk's room and Roderico said:
"Emperor Augustus II is very old, we must go to New Rome and try to overthrow him from power, all the legions that were sent to China returned with a reduced number of soldiers and the 20th Caesarean Legion, currently deactivated due to the emperor's advanced age. " said Roderico.
The Centuriom laughs and says:
"Carrying out a coup d'état in the most fortified and defended province is suicide, we must carry out a coup d'état in the weakest province, which in this case is the province of New Tiber.A large part of our forces are in those provinces which were conquered during the March on the Tiber River." says Rodrigo.
The Visigoth monk then said:
"The Emperor may be decrepit, but his successors still have vitality and now we have to deal with the likely ascension of the Julian Family to the Caesarian throne, which for us would be a catastrophe. The Romans subjugated us and destroyed our kingdom, with their wars that anticipated the Arab invasion, we will end the power of Rome in the New World and a Visigoth kingdom will flourish on the ashes of a civilization that does not know when to disappear and something new will take its place and we will be the ones to take its place, it is time for the rebellion to begin." says Valerius.
The three leave the room and go their separate ways, marking the beginning of Valerius' Rebellion.
New Tiber Province
Flavian Forum
Now
On October 15th, it was spring in the province of Nova Tiber, when shots were heard in the street and soldiers invaded the Forum but they were using the flag of the Visigoth Kingdom and shouted:
"Romans!!! Your time has come! Gothia will take its place and the Romans will die once and for all!!!! Down with the Caesarean Empire and long live the Kingdom of Gothia!!!" the soldier shouted.
"This is a betrayal!" says one of the praetors.
"Filthy Visigoths!!! Our army will put down this rebellion!" says another praetor.
The Visigoth Centurion Rodrigo Angelo, submerges from the rebel soldiers and says:
"The time of the Romans is over, it is our turn to rise, enough of Roman domination!The praetor who has Visigothic ascendancy takes a step forward." says Rodrigo.
The praetors looked at each other, one of them stepped forward and said:
"My ancestor was a Visigoth who fought alongside the Romans at the battle of Hadrumetrum, since then all my ancestors have sworn loyalty to the Romans and at this moment I reaffirm the position of my ancestors:I swear loyalty to the Romans!!!" said the praetor.
Rodrigo was furious and shouted in the Visigothic language at the praetor:
"You traitor!!! They will destroy our homeland and pave the way for the invasion of the Umayyad Caliphate!!!! It is because of these Roman bastards that our homeland is under the control of the Saracens!!!! Honor our ancestors and fight against these damned Romans!!!" Rodrigo shouted in the Visigothic language.
The praetor then responded also in the Visigothic language:
"Those lands were never ours!!! We invaded Hispania at a time when the Western Roman Empire was in decline and we were oppressing the Celtiberians, the real inhabitants of Hispania! Why do you think our ancestors fled here instead of staying there? Do you think they could not have fought like Pelagius and formed an anti-Saracen resistance? Our ancestors were not enslaved by the Romans, they came here with the same purpose as the Romans: to escape from an existential enemy. If you can't understand that, we 9th century Visigoths we do not have the same reason that our ancestors had in the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries, to fight against the Romans, you are nothing more than a rebel who avoids the historical issues of our ancestors, know that You are part of the group that reduces history to good guys and bad guys, in addition to using historical anachronism to talk about the situation in the Iberian Peninsula. If you want to free our brothers from Saracen rule, buy a ship and return to the Iberian Peninsula to fight the Saracens, if you are not going to do that, get out of here and let our people live in peace with the Romans and if so, you and your soldiers will fight the real enemy!" the praetor responds in the Visigothic language.
After hearing this answer, Rodrigo became furious and when he was about to order the killing of all the praetors, one of the rebel soldiers arrived and said:
"Centuriom Rodrigo, the Centurioms of the 7th Caesarian Legion did not measure the revolt, the Legatus Legionis Petrus Julian Gaius is coming with heavy cavalry to contain our coup d'état!" said the soldier.
Rodrigo, quite furious, orders:
"Damn Romans!!! Retreat men! The Apaches will help us in this rebellion!!! Follow me!!!" orders Rodrigo.
The Visigoth rebels leave the Forum and a few minutes later the Caesarian army arrives and the Legatus Legionis Petrus Julian Gaius submerges from the soldiers and says:
"We arrived just in time before a disaster happened, these Visigoth rebels will have the worst of punishments for leading our nation into chaos, the Dux of New Tiber was killed by the rebel Visigoths, this means that as the second most powerful authority in this province, I am the new Dux of New Tiber and as the first order will be the release of firearms for Roman civilians to protect against the rebellious Visigoths and rebellious natives." says Petrus.
Although the coup d'état failed, other provinces such as New Theodosius and New Augustus fell to the Visigothic rebels and thus began the Rebellion of Valerius Athanasius, the Visigothic Benedictine monk who tried to destroy the Caesarian Empire both militarily and religiously.