Rufus

Rufus is based at Aulus' castrum. He is quite relaxed about the invasion of Britannia and is indeed more worried about his family who he left back home. His sister is set to marry a Greek and his brother is in danger of sending his family into bankruptcy. His fellow solider, Felix, is more worried about the invasion of Britannia as a whole, but it is Rufus who runs from a Druid ambush and it is Felix who falls.

Rufus and Felix are both taken prisoner by the Romans, and on their way to the Roman deserter holding camp they spy their former prefectus Lucius. They alert their guard and Lucius is captured, before their prison carts runs down Sawyer, killing him as Cait and Antedia watches.

Once they arrive at the holding camp, they are joined by Lucius on the day they are told they will be executed. Lucius tells them he doesn't believe he will die that day because only he knows the location of the Spear of the Silver Dawn, but neither Rufus nor Felix pay attention to him. When General Aulus arrives, he talks to Lucius and takes him with him, along with Rufus and Felix. On the cart, Aulus questions what Lucius told them, but when they mistakenly misidentify the Spear of the Silver Dawn as the "Sword of the Sliding Door", it becomes apparent to Aulus that they would be of no use, and he has them removed from his sight.