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Rutilus' Triumphby ~Netarliargus

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After defeating the forces of evil alongside his allies of the Roman Empire, the Senate has granted the red dragon Pyrothraxus (Or Rutilus as the Romans call him.) a triumphal march through the city of Rome.

The Roman triumph was a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander who had won great military successes, or originally and traditionally, one who had successfully completed a foreign war. In Republican tradition, only the Senate could grant a triumph. (Kinda like the X-box achievements of their time.)

On the day of his triumph, the general wore regalia that identified him as near-divine or near-kingly. He rode in a chariot through the streets of Rome in procession with his army and the spoils of his war. At Jupiter's temple he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god. Thereafter he had the right to be described as vir triumphalis ("man of triumph", later known as triumphator) for the rest of his life.

Tradition would have it that the imperator had his face painted red and wore a golden wreath. He may have been accompanied in his chariot by a slave holding the wreath above his head and constantly reminding the commander of his mortality by whispering into his ear. The words that the slave is said to have used are not known, but suggestions include "Respice te, hominem te memento" ("Look behind you, remember you are only a man") Though for fairly obvious reasons, that's not the case here. His face is already pretty red and no slave would ever reach his head, let alone have the guts to say something like that to a Red Dragon.

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~Bluehasia Feb 1, 2013

His face. it just says, I do what i want, im a Dragon

XD

~Netarliargus Feb 1, 2013

Just showing off, what else would you do when the whole of Rome cheers for you.

~Nightfang13 Oct 22, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

~Netarliargus Oct 23, 2012

Thanks!

~AMELIANVS Aug 9, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

So this is how they gained their empire

Actually there's a little but interesting mention by one of roman historians(Livius I think) of legion who encouter and fought with something he called a dragon...it probabbly wasnt just some crocodile because romans knew them and likely would not confuse it and later there were some reptile like creature fighting in the arena during reign of nero which was captured by roman arena hunters in inner africa...a dinosaur?We would probably never knew...

~Netarliargus Aug 10, 2012

Who knows, history writers weren't really that accurate in that era. Anyways, I've got the perfect Roman marching tune to go with this image: [link] just skip to 2:25 for the epic part and immagine a dragon walking along in a Roman Triumph.
Gracchus something more cheerful!

~AMELIANVS Aug 10, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Of course they were not the real historians by modern standarts.The music fits with it well

.ROME,up to date,is one of the best roman tv series you might see.

~super0knight Jul 26, 2012

Sheer brilliance! Although due to the size of the dragon I don't seem to see the slave anywhere. Unless it's the statue the dragon's kind of looking at? Epic picture though and really amusing. If dragons existed which I believe they did, it would definitely be the Romans who'd use them in their army while the rest would probably think them to be either devils or gods, lol. Awesome picture!

~Netarliargus Jul 27, 2012

Thanks. I said in the description that there's no slave present here due to his size. I'd like to think that if dragons were real, other people besides the Romans would have used them as well. I can see a few Green dragons side with the Gauls for example

~super0knight Jul 27, 2012

Good point. I didn't read the part where the slave wasn't in the picture though. My bad!

That would be awesome though if dragons fought for different countries and cultures in the various wars throughout history. Perhaps I'll write a book about that except in Roman times maybe. If you don't mind of course.

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