[Loch-Ruadh] Which Historical Lunatic Are You?

[Robyn Cantley]

it's me, crazy as ever!

Ceara

You are Ludwig II, the Swan King of Bavaria!

Born with the name of Otto, you became Ludwig at the request of your 
grandfather, King Ludwig I, because you were born on his birthday. You 
became Crown Prince at the tender age of 3, and soon after stole a purse 
from a shop on the basis that everything in Bavaria belonged to you. Tragedy 
struck when your pet tortoise was taken away; relatives thought the 
six-year-old prince was too attached to it. Your childhood was lonely and 
formal. Once, you were prevented from beheading your younger brother by the 
timeous arrival of a court official. From the age of 14 you suffered from 
hallucinations.

Despite striking an imposing figure with your great height and good looks, 
your speeches were pompous to the point of incomprehensibility. You became 
even more of a recluse, often spending hours reading poetry in a 
seashell-shaped boat in your electrically-illuminated underground grotto.

You are most famous for building three fairytale castles - Linderhof, 
Neuschwanstein and Herrenchiemsee - at tremendous public expense. Declared 
insane and confined to your bedroom by concerned (and embarrassed) subjects, 
you escaped on 13 June 1886, but were later found drowned with your 
physician in Lake Stamberg in mysterious circumstances.





----Original Message Follows----
From: Cat <fem_cat at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc." 
<loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
To: Shire Of Loch Ruadh <loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Loch-Ruadh] Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:45:16 -0700 (PDT)




Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
You are Gaius Caesar Germanicus - better known as
Caligula!

Third Emperor of Rome and ruler of one of the most
powerful empires of all time, your common name means
"little boots". Although you only reigned for four
years, brief even by Roman standards, you still
managed to garner a reputation as a cruel, extravagant
and downright insane despot. Your father died in
suspicious circumstances, you were not the intended
heir, and one of your first acts as Emperor was to
force the suicide of your father-in-law. Your sister
Drusilla died that same year; faced with allegations
that your relationship with her had been incestuous,
you responded, bafflingly, by declaring her a god.

You revived a number of unpopular traditions,
including auctions of properties left over from public
shows. When a senator fell asleep at one such auction,
you took each of his nods as bids, selling him 13
gladiators for a vast sum. You attempted to have your
horse, Incitatus, made into a consul and hence one of
the most powerful figures in Rome. It was granted a
marble stable with jewels and a staff of servants. At
one point you forced your comrade Macro to kill
himself - in much the same vein as your father-in-law
- accusing him of being his wife's pimp. You, of
course, were having an affair with said wife at the
time.

Things went from bad to worse. When supplies of
condemned men ran short in the circus, you had
innocent spectators dragged into the arena with the
lions to fill their place. You claimed mastery of the
sea by walking across a three-mile bridge of boats in
the Bay of Naples; kissed the necks of your lovers,
whispering sweet nothings like "This lovely neck will
be chopped as soon as I say so,"; dallied with your
sister's lover and made her pull her unborn child out
of her womb prematurely. Towards the end of your
reign, you had a golden statue of yourself made and
dressed each day in the same clothes you yourself
wore. When you eventually died, the terrified people
of Rome refused to believe that such a cruel reign
could ever end, and believed you to be alive for years
afterwards.





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