Thallius hopes that the prophecy offers hope that the vision of Christianity that he embraces, of a peaceful religion, will be supported by the prophecy. The two work from Claudia's understanding of the prophecy to make sure Hadrian's forces build a stone wall across Britain, even when they don't understand all of the prophecy or what it applies to.įinally, Several generations later, Brigonius's descendents are trying to recover the prophecy, long rumored to apply to their family, but also long lost.
Claudia has the prophect and believes she can use it to make her fortune, and Brigonius's. Nearly a century after the initial invasion, Agrippina's descendent, Claudia Severa, a native of Rome, reappears in Britain and contacts Brigonius, the descendent of Agrippina's one-time lover. Although eventually nearly everything mentioned in the prophecy happens, none of it can be tied to specific events until they are about to happen, or have already happened. However, part of Baxter's point is that prophecies are tricky things.
When Claudius invades England, Nectovelin and Agrippina work together to ensure that the prophecy comes true as they seek vengeance for the soldier's casual murder of Agrippina's brother, Mandubracius, in the first wave of the attack. It was written down and Nectovelin wore it as a talisman, fully believing in the truth and efficacy of the prophecy he had been told but could never read.
Upon Nectovelin's birth in the hinterlands of Britain, a prophecy was spoken in Latin, a language the speaker did not know. The focus of the novel, which is the first book of the Time's Tapestry series, is the family of Nectovelin and his niece Agrippina throughout the period.
Stephen Baxter's Emperor is a multi-generational saga that spans four centuries, from the birth of Jesus to the execution of Pelagius, the first major heretic in the Christian Roman Empire.
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