Aulus

Aulus was the only son of one of the wealthiest families in Ar, born to the Blue Caste. When his parents died suddenly of the Bazi plague, the family estate passed to his uncle, who squandered it before Aulus reached adulthood. Throughout these years, Aulus was kept ignorant both of the mismanagement and of the considerable debts quietly incurred in his name.

Despite this, he was afforded an exceptional education and excelled in academics, music, and dance, with aspirations of becoming a scholar. Shortly after his nineteenth year, the creditors finally came. His possessions, slaves, and lands were seized and sold, and Aulus himself was taken as a debt slave.

To shield what remained of his own reputation from further disgrace, his uncle paid a bribe to ensure that Aulus would not face public humiliation. Aulus was kept in chains, confined to a dungeon, and denied instruction in the one discipline he had never imagined needing to master: the art of being a slave. Four years later, his uncle was executed for treason. With the bribes no longer paid and the price deemed acceptable, Aulus was sold to Scimitar so that the stain of his family might no longer burden Ar.

Aulus tends toward obedience, his spirit largely broken by years spent in darkness and isolation. Yet remnants of his privileged upbringing persist. He retains a streak of laziness and defiance, and at times behaves as though entitled to freedoms forbidden to other slaves. He possesses a sharp tongue and has been known to answer back to free men, earning him a number of scars. Aulus understands that the only reason he has not been executed outright lies in his unnatural beauty and in his creditors’ insistence upon full payment.

While Gor has no words to name such a condition, Aulus’s experiences have left him prone to paranoia and hypervigilance, with intense emotional reactions to darkness and confined spaces.

The climate of Scimitar has proven difficult for him; when overworked in the heat, he is prone to illness. His usefulness lies primarily in indoor labor requiring intellectual aptitude.
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