Thrax is killed by an unknown force after defeating the other gladiators and is sent to the afterlife of Elysium where he encounters the masked childlike spirits of Romulus and Remus (voiced by James Peter Gale) who reveal to Thrax that Arruntius assassinated Trajan with the aid of black arts from the dark gods of terror and fear and rogue children of Mars, Phobos and Deimos (voiced by Chris Jojo and Jayne Dowell), and used the popular support of bribed senators to take possession of the Imperial Throne. Thrax describes how he was once the gladiator champion of Trajan before he being sent to fight in the Colosseum by Arruntius to eliminate the last of Trajan's supporters. Arruntius ascended to the Imperial throne and brought forth an age of tyranny and destruction for Rome and turned the city of Rome into a personal playground dubbed Arruntium where gladiators fought and died in the streets for Arruntius’ twisted entertainment as its godhead. The game begins as Invictus Thrax (voiced by Sean Pertwee) recounts how the Roman Empire under the reign of noble Emperor Trajan fell into the command of the despotic and sadistic consular, Arruntius (voiced by Chris Jojo), after Trajan's mysterious death. But even in death there is freedom and vengeance." And so now I wait for an inevitable fate. Ripped from the arms of a mother I can no longer remember and sold into the cold embrace of slavery, I was the champion gladiator of a good and just emperor. And who am I? My real name has long since been forgotten. Within the very streets of Rome, gladiators will butcher each other to appease a mob rapidly becoming as crazed as their emperor.
In celebration, Arruntius will stage the bloodiest gladiatorial event ever witnessed.
Now Rome will be leveled to make way for a new city, Arruntium, named after the madman himself. "After the mysterious death of the great and noble Emperor Trajan, the despotic Consular Arruntius ascended to the Imperial Throne, heralding an age of tyranny, perversity, and destruction.
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