Erastes Fulmen

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Erastes Fulmen
Rome character

Name	Erastes Fulmen
Class	Plebeian
Family	None known
Allies	None
Enemies	Lucius Vorenus
Appearances	1-10 "Triumph" 1-11 "The Spoils"
Portrayed by	Lorcan Cranitch

Erastes Fulmen is a fictional character in the HBO/BBC2 original television series Rome, played by Lorcan Cranitch. He is depicted as a ruthless businessman, who over the course of the first season becomes one of the leading figures in the Roman underworld.

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[edit] Personality

In many ways, Erastes resembles the gangsters and organized crime members of the modern world. Whilst wearing the facade of a businessman, he in fact oversees an organized group of thieves, assassins, and thugs. Due to the lack of an organized police force in Rome, he has free reign to brutalize the population for his own gain. He is a brutal man who torments with intimidation and violence those who are less fortunate for his further gain.

[edit] Character history

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He has crossed paths with Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo on more than one occasion: he once hired a destitute Vorenus as a 'bodyguard', only to have him walk out in disgust when he realized that meant hired killer. He publicly threatened to brutally kill the entire Vorenus clan if he did not receive a public and humiliating apology from Vorenus for "disrespect" shown to one of his lieutenants (and only the coincidental arrival of Caesar with a squad of soldiers prevented Erastes from attempting to carry out the threat)and he has hired a broken Pullo for "mortality work".

It may not even be known to Erastes as he is only seen dealing with Posca but his 'services' have been employed by Caesar.