THEORETICAL TIMELINE
Casca ends up in Italy where the wars between city states means mercenary work is frequent. Casca is employed by Genoa in their war with the Swiss, and helps Genoa win at the Battle of Arbedo. Rewarded with a captaincy he takes up a post in Corsica and fights bandits for a while, until he feel sits time to move on, and moves on to southern Spain where a ship, the Kuta, signs him up.
CASCA THE LIBERATOR
The Kuta is sunk by pirates and Casca spends 6 years at the bottom of the ocean before being dragged to the surface by fishermen. Amongst them is the exiled prince Ewuare who hails Casca as a sea god Olokun and hopes he will free his people from the evil rule of his brother Awanoshe. Casca travels to the capital and is received as Olokun and helps in the conquest of neighbouring Igbo, but when the attack on Yoruba fails Casca is deposed and Awanoshe declares himself a god. Casca leads a coup that topples the dictator and Ewuare takes his place. Casca, his job done, departs.
THEORETICAL TIMELINE
Returning from Africa over the Sahara, Casca makes his way to Italy and learns that Constantinople is under threat from the Turks again and is likely to fall. He joins up with Genoan mercenaries and sails to the city and joins with the defenders in the epic siege (6 April - 29 May 1453) which eventually falls. Casca is one of the defenders to escape the slaughter and reflects on the final extinguishing of the old Roman Empire.
On his journey back he stops over in Germany and meets Johann Gutenberg and tells his story to the German. Afterwards he travels to nearby Burgundy to hires out his sword and is contracted by the Duke of Somerset of England to fight for King Henry VI against the rival House of York. At the First Battle of St.Albans (1455) Casca's side is beaten and Somerset killed. Making his way to Somerset's estate he is made a captain of the mercenary company and retains his employment there. When war resumes in 1460 they are victorious at Ludford Bridge. The following year they also win at Wakefield and St.Albans but at Towton their army is annihilated, and the new Duke of Somerset and Casca retreat to Scotland. Over the next few years they battle against the Yorkists but Somerset is killed so Casca returns south where the new Duke raises a new army to fight the Yorkists, but at Tewkesbury (1471) they are beaten. Casca remains in hiding until 1485 when the last rival to the Yorkists, Henry Tudor, lands in Wales and takes an army into England. Casca joins up and at Bosworth Field the Yorkists are finally defeated. Casca, having finally avenged the Somersets, leaves.
CASCA THE CONQUISTADOR
Casca travels to Spain and is arrested in a brawl and becomes a prisoner of the Inquisition. A prisoner until 1516 he escapes feigning death and heads for the port where a ship is sailing to the New World. Arriving in Cuba he enlists under Cortes and realises he's heading back to the lands of the Teotec. After many battles he arrives in Mexico to see the Aztecs are still sacrificing humans. He knows the Spanish must win and sides with Cortes. In the battle that follows (1519)the Spanish are chased out, and Casca returns to the sea, heading for new adventures.
