For the first ten years of his life, Marcus Aquila grew up with his mother on a farm, a custom known to be fairly common among Roman life. Marcus never knew his father intimately, for he was a soldier in the Roman army, and was often sent on long treks and voyages in service of the Roman Empire. Tragically, his father was a soldier during a rebellion that ultimately led to his disappearance, leaving behind his family and essentially his life. No one had known what happened to him or his legion, The Ninth Hispania. Following this tragic events, more devastation, along with melancholy, had followed Marcus almost as a cloud above his head, just out of reach and always looming above him, for that his mother had soon died not too long from the disappearance of his father, forcing him to leave his farm and live with his aunt and uncle, the latter of which he hated with a furious passion, which inevitably would help push Marcus to sign up for a centurion commission at the age of 18, almost immediately after his birthday.
Marcus had wished to be sent to the British commission, so that if any news of his father and his legion had arose, Marcus would be one of the first to hear about it. This was not his only reason for deciding on a military career, for it was actually his childhood dream to eventually earn the rank of "First Cohort," just like his father, but his ambitions didn't end there, as he even dreamed of going further to eventually become a Legion Commander, the equivalent to our nation's head of military defense. Of course, such a high ranking position would ensure your wealth, which Marcus intended to use to buy back his family's farm and live there once more to live out the life that was sorrowfully robbed from him. The work he had done on the farm from the little time he lived there taught him many things and ensured he would be a more than capable commander when he did become in charge of his own first command, dealing with the typical troubles and attitudes of soldiers. Surely the skills that he obtained from his parents would lock his future in place, as he was a fully capable man with a wide variety of abilities that would help more than he could have expected in his future.
