Cattigern
"The army of Caractacus and Cattigern" was the "main opposition" of Roman Emperor Claudius's army during his 43 AD conquest of Britain. (GAME: "The War Chief" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"The War Chief","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"}) The defeat of their army by Claudius's, scattering the "barbarians" who survived the clash, (GAME: "The War Chief" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"The War Chief","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"}, "Falco's Story" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedep":"Falco's Story","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"}) was historically meant to spell Roman victory in the conquest, though the War Chief would go on to attempt to interfere with this by amassing a second Briton army near the Sacred Wood. His aim was not to use the Briton army itself in the long run, but rather to use it to lure Claudius into a trap, then hypnotise him and thereby take control of the Roman Empire; he had previously dismissed Cattigern and Caractacus as unsuited to his purposes because they were "too strong-willed to be easily dominated", besides which the army itself was "twice-beaten and brittle". (GAME: "The War Chief" [+]Part of The Legions of Death, Loading...{"namedpart":"The War Chief","1":"The Legions of Death (game)"})
Behind the scenes
Cattigern appears as Caractacus's brother-in-law and the King of the Trinovantes in Robert Graves's novel Claudius the God, the sequel or second part of I, Claudius. The name appears to have been borrowed from the later figure of Catigern, an alleged son of King Vortigern in the matter of Britain, and does not appear in reliable historical records, unlike that of Caractacus; considered as a fictional creation, Graves's Cattigern was not in the public domain when The Legions of Death (game) was released. It is probable that J. Andrew Keith was simply mistaken in trusting that all the major figures in Graves's novel were historically attested, making this an instance of accidental plagiarism.
