Introduction

In two forty three, a d 18 year old gordian, the third lost the man who had helped make the first few years of his reign a success. With timosithius in place, the pire had enjoyed the fruits of a capable administrator without having to ingest the poisoned seeds that often accompany those fruits when they are provided by too powerful an underling. Had gordian's father in law and pretorian prefect lived, there might have been conflict down the road as gordian came of age. But we need not trouble ourselves with that question, because that's not how it went. How it went was that things were ang great for gordian until time