Thus starts the first chronicle of the tenure of the 30th Chronicler of the Optimatoi. My name once was Samuela 'Luciana' Mari of Pompeii but is no more. From here on, I have shed my name and will now be known only as "Lorekeeper". On this day my patronus, the 29th Lorekeeper, fell to the forces of Morrigan in the Battle of Henricburg falling alongside six hundred of his fellow Optimatoi whose names have been added to the Roll of Dead so that Gnaeus may know the names of the warriors that approach him. I accept this honored post in haste, for I write this while we are on the retreat. The air smells of burning carcasses and I can hear our Commander and Marshal argue over what to do. They worry that these may be the last day of the Legion; for we are being harried on several sides. The air is thick with worry. I can see the gloomy expressions on the faces of my fellows, fear in their eyes and an urge to run in their stomachs. We march East, towards the Tigeria River in the hope that