Board Thread:The Trials of Apollo/@comment-24883778-20160505220126/@comment-32307832-20170616184309

The-lost-dwemer wrote:

You know, in book there was something about shoes. Apollo said something strange about shoes and emperor. Caligula comes from caligae and that's plural for... military shoes. Or maybe not a plural? And there was a few more mentions that suggested that it must be Caligula but I do not remember them correctly. YES! THE SHOES! I was just reading about Caligula since when I searched google for a roman emperor who had a swift white horse and was really bad, Incitus and Caligula came up.

But, think about it:

- Caligula means 'Little Soldier's Boot', coming from the word for boot, 'Caliga' (As per Wiki says. Tell me if I am wrong, I don't know latin.)

- Caligula owns a semi-famous horse, Incitus, who I think it said was a swift white horse. Or something like that.

- The prophecy mentioned the horse, and 'To walk the path in thine own enemy's boots'. Meg said this last emperor is the worst, and apparently strongest, and the leader, so it would make sense if it is Antony, Julius, or Octavious, but in perspective of the horse, and boots, it must be Caligula. His name means little soldier's boot for crying out loud!

Wiki said some other things that were VERY interesting:

so, we are talking about the god of medicines and diseases, right? Wiki said, after stating his first 7 months of reign was a very generous and 'blissful' one, "In October 37 AD, Caligula fell seriously ill, or perhaps was poisoned. He soon recovered from his illness, but many believed that the illness turned the young emperor toward the diabolical..."

And later, it said that he had even claimed to be "Hercules, Mercury, Venus (I have no idea how he pretended to be a female god when he is male), and Apollo." He later claimed to be the 'New Sun'.

A less interesting, but still somewhat, fact: His wife died in childbirth, less than a year after marriage, which is a domain under Apollo's twin, and a brother died in prison with his mother, his other brother died of either starvation or suicide, all four deaths kinda preventable by the god of medicine or his twin. I dunno, but with where The Dark Prophecy went with Commodus and Triphonious (name?), this could be another 'lead'/'revenge' against Apollo.

Three (and possibly four) instances that referenced to Apollo, plus a horse, a name that means boot, a drastic change in character, and a ruthless lifestyle of murder and (and plus, I think archiology said his palace was at the Palatine hill in Rome? ??? Correct if I am wrong.) = Most likely Caligula as the last, and final, Emperor of the Triumvirate Holdings.

ooohhh... thunder. I love thunder. It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring, he went to bed- oops, sorry folks. I like a good thunderstorm, especially since I live in Florida, home of daily afternoon summer storms. Only, I only like them if I am inside and don't plan on going anywhere. FYI, it's storming outside in real life now. Sorry if this confused y'all. A pretty good, almost white-out one, with thunder only 5-sec apart from lightning. Ah, I missed you, severe thunderstorm. And no, I am not a child of Zeus, but it seems like it. Oooh... and really really windy. I should probably stop this post before it gets too long and the power and internet goes out.

So, yeah. I think Caligula is the final emperor. All the clues seem to point to-ooh.... I see the mailman, and it got worse....- the clues point to Caligula. I feel sorry for the mailman. I ain't going to get the mail now... Ok, it is a white out now. Bye!