YMMV / The Eagles of Rome

• Alternate Character Interpretation: It's a bit ambiguous whether Ermanamer is aware that Titus is actually the son of Marcus. He seems to take a liking to the boy, even advising him to kill his abusive legal father Lepidus, and after the Battle of Teutoburg Forest prevents his soldiers from killing Titus and takes him to be raised as a German. He never outright indicates he knows the truth, but Marcus was able to figure it out within minutes of meeting his son, while Ermanamer is generally portrayed as far more cunning than his Roman blood brother, so it's pretty unlikely.
• Magnificent Bastard: Ermanamer/Arminius is a prince of the Cherusci who is sent as a hostage to Rome to ensure his tribe's loyalty. Growing up among a Roman family, Arminius becomes companions with Marcus Valerius Falco, spending their young years training to be warriors and living a carefree life bedding women, getting into fights, and watching horse races. When Marcus is planning to throw away his career by running away with a girl he fell in love with, Arminius arranges to break them up. Becoming an officer in the staff of General Varus at the Rhine frontier, Ermanamer serves Rome's interests while secretly never having lost his sense of patriotism, biding his time by becoming an accomplice in a plot by Varus and one of his other officers, Lepidus, to overthrow Augustus himself. Marcus, who has arrived with instructions to spy on his brother, is found out by Ermanamer within days of his arrival and is later framed for the murder of Varus' lover Nektarios. Ermanamer also takes his beloved Thusnelda away from her disapproving father Segestes, eloping with her and making Segestes appear unreliable to the Romans in the process. Setting out to free Germania from Roman rule and fulfill a prophecy given to him by a woods witch, Ermanamer establishes himself as leader of the tribes before luring the Roman army into a trap at Teutoburg Forest. Having successfully wiped out three legions of the most powerful army in the world, Ermanamer is crowned King of the Germanii.

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