Sic Transit

O quam cito transit gloria mundi!

A character painted with dark colors by its contemporaries; a dangerous revolutionary, a conspirer, a betrayer of the Republic; a monster, a cruel, manipulative weaver of evil and mischief. Catiline was all this, and perhaps more: but his conspiracy, his grand attempt to reform the Roman state would be doomed to failure and defeat.

Yet, things did not have to go this way. Perhaps, Catiline could have won the battle at Pistorium, and seized Rome itself, putting himself at the head of the Republic. Surely, the history of the whole world, not just that of Rome, would have been changed: in this timeline, the next thousand years of world history after Catiline's conspiracy are discussed. Empires have risen and fallen, crowns have been worn and broken into pieces, cities have prospered and were left in ruins, gods were raised and cast down from the heavens: for in this world, glory is a fleeting thing, and even those who today are great, will one day be a mere paragraph in dusty books...