In 55 AD, just months after Nero became emperor, his step-brother Britannicus died of poisoning, clearing Nero's path of any other potential contenders for the throne. 

One of the central themes I aim to convey throughout the While Rome Burns album is a sense of what it would be like to live in a world where the other members of one's own family are the most likely ones to try to betray or kill you — the climate in which every character in the story had to live every day of their lives.

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