Victus

Victus, a character in the A Courtesan of Rome book, is your father. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Victus has ginger hair and beard. He has brown eyes and blue markings on his face and arm. He wears a gladiator's outfit.

Personality
Victus is shown to care deeply for his family, and made a bloodpact with them that they will find each other again when they were captured by the Roman Republic eight years ago. Since then, he has been forced to fight as a Gladiator for Lucanus, but has voiced his disgust that the Romans find entertainment in Bloodsport. He obviously takes no pleasure in being forced to kill other Gladiators such as The Giant.

Series/Book: A Courtesan of Rome

 * Chapter 1: A Princess of Gaul
 * Chapter 2: Crossing the Rubicon
 * Chapter 3: The Aid of the Gods
 * Chapter 4: The Hunt
 * Chapter 5: Red-Handed
 * Chapter 6: Marked
 * Chapter 7: A Fighting Chance
 * Chapter 8: The Goddess of Watching
 * Chapter 9: Power Vacuum
 * Chapter 10: Snakes in the Grass
 * Chapter 11: Trial By Combat
 * Chapter 12: Raising The Stakes
 * Chapter 13: Bread and Circus
 * Chapter 14: A Twist of Fate
 * Chapter 15: Best Served Cold
 * Chapter 16: Triumph
 * Chapter 17: A Life for a Life
 * Chapter 18: The Die is Cast
 * Chapter 19: A Warrior's Death
 * Chapter 20: The Liberators
 * Chapter 21: The Ides of March

Main Character
Victus is her father. For the first half of the book, he is desperate to return to his daughter and to learn she is safe. Upon their reunion, he always does whatever he can to protect her. In Chapter 18, she has to choose between him and Syphax, as she can only try to save one of them with the help of her reputation. If she chooses Syphax and succeeds in freeing him, Victus will understand. In this case, when her plan to kill Caesar fails and she also has to fight in the arena, he will train her. As they both win the fight and refuse to fight each other, they are both freed in the same chapter.

Delphinia
Victus is her husband. If Main Character freed Syphax and not Victus in Chapter 18, Victus will be freed and reunited with Delphinia in Chapter 19.

Cingerix
Victus is his father.

Lucanus Flavius
Victus is his slave. Victus kills him in the final chapter.