You run up through the crowd, and as you reach the man surrounded by soldiers, you bring out your sword and stab it straight through him. You run off, slicing at everyone who gets in your way, but are eventually surrounded by the panicked Etruscans, and brought back to the other man, who turns out to be Porsenna. It becomes apparent that you killed the wrong man, having slain not Porsenna, but his secretary. You tell the general that you are a Roman youth, and that there are hundreds of warriors just as willing to sacrifice themselves as you are.
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Porsenna angrily orders you to be thrown into a fire, unless you tell him the strength of the Roman army. Instead, you decide to stick your hand into a sacrificial pyre, while exclaiming “En tibi, ut sentias, quam vile corpus sit iis, qui magnam gloriam vident” (Look how those in search of glory hold their bodies cheaply). As you unflinchingly burn your right hand off, Porsenna, amazed at the sight, tells his men to remove you from the altar. The general, seeing how brave Romans could be, releases you to go back to Rome, saying that you were an Etruscan yourself, you would be honored greatly.
After you arrive at Rome, Porsenna, scared for his life at thought of an army of slodiers as brave as you, negotiates peace. You become known as Gaius Mucius Scaevola, the last neme meaning ‘left-handed,’ and are granted land to live on across the Tiber River, which would later become known as the Mucian Meadows.
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Porsenna angrily orders you to be thrown into a fire, unless you tell him the strength of the Roman army. Instead, you decide to stick your hand into a sacrificial pyre, while exclaiming “En tibi, ut sentias, quam vile corpus sit iis, qui magnam gloriam vident” (Look how those in search of glory hold their bodies cheaply). As you unflinchingly burn your right hand off, Porsenna, amazed at the sight, tells his men to remove you from the altar. The general, seeing how brave Romans could be, releases you to go back to Rome, saying that you were an Etruscan yourself, you would be honored greatly.
After you arrive at Rome, Porsenna, scared for his life at thought of an army of slodiers as brave as you, negotiates peace. You become known as Gaius Mucius Scaevola, the last neme meaning ‘left-handed,’ and are granted land to live on across the Tiber River, which would later become known as the Mucian Meadows.