Chapter two.

So its been a few days since I have awakened and have better understanding of what I have gotten myself involved in as I'm in command of nearly 45000 people all told split between 4 legions of 4800 each, around 5000 sailors manning 50 warships and 150 transports and 20000 men, women, children and slaves which make up the families of the legionnaires and sailors and any skilled labour we would need. Also included is the equipment for the legions and the equipment and resources to at least get a basic camp set up on arrival at our destination which we are now overdue at and that's the hardest part of this so far is keeping what I know secret and not letting on that I know where never going to get to where we are meant to go.

Just as I was contemplating my future and that of what I now consider my people I heard shouts of the lookout spotting land and I make my way to the deck to see what land has been sighted and make plans for what comes next.

"Captain report, what do you see" demanded Michael

"Land spotted north east and getting closer, orders sir" reported the captain of the trireme Michael was using as his flagship

"Haul too and send a bireme and some scouts to find out where we are and how far off course we are and tell them to keep a low profile as we don't know if we are in friendly territory or not." replied Michael.

"Yes sir"

Several hours later the bireme returns to the fleet and the scouts report before me on my flagship "well men what did you find"

The first scout, a grim looking man with straw coloured hair and blue eyes with a lot of canyon style wrinkles and sun burnt face stands at attention before me and starts his report. "Sir, me and my squad main landfall and approached what we believe to a small fishing village and from what we have over heard they speak a bastardized version of Latin and Gaelic combined and they call their land the north and they are one of 7 kingdoms and other regions under one king who lives somewhere in the south. From what we saw they have the same level of culture that the Celts have but have advanced somewhat more in both iron working and ship building to about early Rome standards but are still living a hard life of worry where there next meal is going to come from, that's my report sir"

I look at the second scout and ask " anything to add"

The second scout is younger than the first but just as hard looking as the first replies "Not a lot sir but I did over hear that the person in charge of the north is a person with the last name stark and his title is lord paramount of the north and lives in the capital of the north and his family has done for several dozen generations which leads me to believe that they have a much longer history than we do"

I look at the second scout and then dismiss them both and order the captain to send squadrons north and south along the coast to find somewhere we can land and will be defensible on land and by sea so we can get ashore.

Two days later we are about to make landfall and set up camp to at least get started in this new land that we have no idea where it is but it's a start. Several hours after making landfall we have the start of a palisade done and our outlying scouts report a group of mounted men approaching us from the west flying a banner with a grey wolf head on a white background. I call out to the guard to man the walls as they are and to get my horse ready along with my personal guard.

Five minutes later I am riding out to meet with the approaching riders where I see 5 men break of ahead and shout out to me and my men "Halt and identify yourself and your reason being here without invitation"

I reply "We mean no harm and are travellers lost and in need of a place to rest and recover"

They share a few words among themselves and then shout out again "I am lord Eddard Stark and I am lord of these lands and I'm willing to discuss options with you if you are willing to remain in the current area"

I reply "I can promise you to remain in the current area and discuss more permanent solution to our reason for being here"

With that we decided to meet up again in a few hours in a tent I had set up between our two parties of people after I returned to camp and stood down the majority of the guards to their regular duties while still maintaining adequate defences in case of a sneak attack.

3 hours later I am sitting in a tent opposite what I have been led to believe is the leader of the northern kingdom in these 7 kingdoms of Westeros.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Michael Angelo, governor of what would have been a new colony of the roman republic as assigned by the senate and ratified by my emperor Marcus Aurelius'. But we have been blown of course by a storm and now we have no idea where we are and the first land we spotted was near a small fishing village south of here. I made the decision to find somewhere to land to find out about this place and for my people to rest and recover from the storm and make any repairs to our fleet as needed. Now I would like to ask where we are and who is in charge "I inform them and then ask.

The looks from the people opposite me tell me they have never heard of my home or my people before and i know this but playing like this is all new to me is exhausting but necessary. Eventually they reply to that effect while adding that they serve a king named Robert Baratheon first of his name and a lot of other names and titles that I pretend not to know.

Eventually our discussion leads to how many people I have with me and possible settlement. "I now know we are somewhere we have not discovered before or the gods are playing a trick on us. Ok so for general purposes I'm leading a group of 45000 people mixed of men women, children and slaves that are needed to start a new colony so if we are to stay we need some land and a place to build a city to live in."

The man in charge by the name of Eddard Stark replies "Well first I would have to have you at least free your slaves if you stay as slavery is banned here, I can assigned you land on the west coast of the north big enough to make you a lord and you would only be required to swear oaths to me as lord paramount of the north and if asked to our king, lastly you would be required to raise men at arms when required to fight on behalf of the north and the seven kingdoms."

"I can say with certainty given our population here that we agree to free the slaves and make them regular citizens, as for the land and lord title I would have to discuss with my advisors on the best course of action and as for fighting for you when called we can agree as long as you understand our way of fighting will largely be different than yours as we will have to learn your tactics and you ours, also we may have more than just that to share as we have seen that your people suffer from lack of food and poor housing, but we have ways to increase crops and better building techniques amongst other areas so if you can give me till tomorrow to discuss it with my people about the lordship I will give you an answer then and give you time to discuss it with your own people."