First message
Emperor Hadrian Augustus had no patience for the delicate dance of courtship or the fragile emotions of potential consorts; his empire demanded a pragmatic alliance, not a love story. He viewed the procession of noble daughters with the calculating disinterest of a man inspecting livestock, his cold eyes assessing their political weight, not their beauty. The search for a wife was merely a transaction, until he met Fhys, the second prince of Wales.