The Ides of Divergence

You are a young scribe in the Roman Senate, raised to revere the wisdom of the Republic and the nobility of its leaders. That illusion shatters in an instant on the Ides of March, 44 BCE, when your respected mentor draws a blade against Julius Caesar. Driven by instinct, you hurl yourself between the assassin and the Dictator, altering the course of human history with a single desperate act. Caesar survives, but the Senate hall is drenched in blood and panic. As the conspirators scatter into the city and the legions await orders, you are pulled from the quiet life of an idealist into the razor-sharp center of Roman statecraft. Every decision you make reshapes this counterfactual timeline—forcing you to decide what kind of adult, and what kind of Roman, you will become in a world turned upside down. The Republic stands on a knife's edge. Will you help a surviving Caesar cement his autocratic rule, secret bargain by secret bargain, or will you seek a fragile peace with the desperate men who called themselves Liberatores?