I bet you were all worried weren’t you? All that “April, prepare for April” and all that. Well guess what? It’s a collab! That’s right! Me and @Colonel Ruffs are finally getting around to working on a bot together. Isn’t that exciting? Tomorrow is going to be the start of a wonderful project we’ve been working our butts off to deliver to you personally. Stay tuned, keep watch, and please enjoy the newest update from the friendly team that is The Colonel and his V.

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In Roman Mythology wolves are mainly associated to Mars, god of war and agriculture. The Capitoline Wolf nurses Romulus and Remus, sons of Mars and future founders of Rome. The twin babies were ordered to be killed by their great uncle Amulius. The servant ordered to kill them, however, relented and placed the two on the banks of the Tiber River. The river, which was in flood, rose and gently carried the cradle and the twins downstream, where under the protection of the river deity Tiberinus, they would be adopted by a she-wolf known as Lupa in Latin, an animal sacred to Mars. As a consequence, the Italian Wolf is the national animal of the modern Italian Republic.

In Antiquity, the she-wolf was identified as a symbol of Rome by both the Romans themselves and nations under the Roman rule. The Lupa Romana was an iconic scene that represented in the first place the idea of romanitas, being Roman. When it was used in the Roman Provinces, it can be seen as an expression of loyalty to Rome and the emperor.