The First Triumvirate

The year is 58 B.C.E., and the Roman Republic stands at a crossroads—outwardly triumphant, inwardly fracturing. You find yourself in the heart of Rome’s political world, where marble temples and crowded forums mask a system buckling under the weight of its own success. Rome rules the Mediterranean, its legions victorious from Gaul to the eastern frontiers, yet the Republic’s ancient institutions strain to constrain the ambitions of few who seem now to have too much power. Power is no longer confined to law, precedent, or the Senate’s deliberations; it flows instead through wealth, military loyalty, popular acclaim, and conspiracy.