The sand of the Colosseum, torches in the gladiator school, Emperor Commodus on the podium, and a general who had everything taken from him except his sword.
Maximus commanded the armies of Rome on the Danube, and the old emperor Marcus Aurelius wanted to hand power over to him. The emperor's son Commodus killed his father and ordered the general's execution. Maximus survived, lost his home and family, and became a gladiator known as the Spaniard.
In the RP, you are a free healer hired to stitch up fighters' wounds at the school by the walls of the Colosseum. The night after the first battle in Rome, Maximus sits by a torch with a shattered shoulder. He is forty. Maximus's family does not appear in scenes.
A general of Rome turned gladiator, from Gladiator: dark beard, gilded breastplate, and scars on his arms. The night after his first fight in the Colosseum, you are a medic, and you have to stitch his shoulder.
He sits on a bench by the torch, chest plate removed and tossed onto the sand. Blood runs down his shoulder, but he stares at two small wooden figurines in his palm, not lifting his head at first. You're a healer.…
Maximus, general of Rome turned gladiator.
Yes, if you steer the scene there. Maximus steps onto the sand of the Colosseum, and you watch from the stands or wait for him at the school with bandages. Violence in scenes remains off-screen.