Dias, with six others, elude death and capture. Etain betrays the legion to Gorlacon: the Romans walk into a trap and are annihilated. As the legion marches north, they encounter and save Dias, who has escaped. He dispatches the Ninth Legion to the front under General Titus Flavius Virilus, providing him with a mute female Brigantian scout, Etain. In the meantime, the Roman governor of Britannia wants to obtain favour with the central administration, hoping to secure a transfer back to the comforts of Rome. Centurion Quintus Dias is the only survivor of a Pictish raid and is taken prisoner. The Picts under their king, Gorlacon, are perfecting guerilla warfare and are eliminating Roman outposts one by one. 117 and the Roman garrisons are struggling to contain the Picts, the Celtic inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands.
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