Cassia – Gaius Cassius Longinus
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If your Wizard is learning to Weave with Ice, you encounter Julius Freezer, the Icon of Ice. He knows of the corruption of magic that Your Wizard has encountered. It is easier for him to show what he discovered if you join him in Avalon.
During his mortality, he set out from his native Aquila hoping to discover more of the Spiral. He went world to world, studying their unique magicks. Cassia and her Brutes, her Legionnaires, tracked Julius to remove him so Cassia could become the new Dean of the College of Ice.
Cassia has spent time learning about all the schools of magic. She can counter Julius’ every spell. She has dug through the upper planes of existence, sifted the energy that stream from the center of the Spiral and discovered the malignance that hides in the Leylines. The rot of the heavens, the blight in the invisible branches, she’s seen it and showed it a banquet.
Gaius Cassius Longinus (c. 86 BC – October 3, 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the conspiracy. He commanded troops with Brutus during the Battle of Philippi against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s former supporters, and committed suicide after being defeated by Mark Antony.
Cassius was elected as tribune of the plebs in 49 BC. He opposed Caesar, and eventually he commanded a fleet against him during Caesar’s Civil War: after Caesar defeated Pompey in the Battle of Pharsalus, Caesar overtook Cassius and forced him to surrender. After Caesar’s death, Cassius fled to the east to Syria, where he amassed an army of twelve legions. He was supported and made governor by the Senate. Later he and Brutus marched west against the allies of the Second Triumvirate.
He followed the teachings of the philosopher Epicurus, although scholars debate whether or not these beliefs affected his political life. Cassius is a main character in William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar that depicts the assassination of Caesar and its aftermath. He is also shown in the lowest circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno as punishment for betraying and killing Caesar.
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