Publisher's blurb:
A LARP about Fate and Power in an Eternal Empire.
1815. For more than two thousand years, the Roman Empire has ruled over a quarter of the world's population. Its legions impose the Pax Romana in all the submitted provinces. Its laws are respected from the Polar Circle to the deserts of Africa and from the Panjshir valley to the Atlantic Ocean (and even beyond). Emperors unquestionably reign over prosperous territories where millions of roman citizens coexist. Under the gaze of the Gods of Rome, science and philosophy have brought power, wealth, culture and knowledge to the Imperium Romanorum. But order, peace and prosperity are threatened from within. Are you ready to face your Fate?
This Larp is based on a Roman uchronic universe, in a decadent and corrupt imperial court in which participants will meet their fate. From major political decisions to the most mundane ones, they will be confronted to the will of the gods, bound to the augurs of their birth. A Larp on free will and the inexorability of fate. This is not a Larp about factions and combat. It is a Larp about conspiracy and drama.
Participants are not expected to attempt to rewrite history (you will effectively embody characters in an early nineteenth century Roman empire, good luck with that!), but to live through tragic times and witness the possible downfall of a multi millennial Empire. Si Qua Fata Sinant is a narrativist Larp tinged with Romanesque French tradition and Nordic influence. A Larp of alcoves, plots, oracles, and daggers in the dark. Will you take part in the fall of the mightiest Empire that ever was or try to save it, even if it means losing everything, including yourself? Will you be ready to leave your fate in the hands of the gods?
Aut Bibat Aut Abeat! - Either endure the blows of fate or endure life!
The setting is freely and lightly inspired by the uchronic universe created by Robert Silverberg in his sci-fi fixup novel Roma Æterna. A universe in which the Exodus never took place, where Christianity never emerged, where the New World was discovered by Northmen in the name of Rome, and more particularly, a universe where the Roman Empire survived the Migration Period, to establish its unchallenged authority from the Atlantic to the Indus, from the Spitzberg to the Sahara.