Minor gripe about Res Vis in Book 2/Strength of the Few (light spoilers) is....
The fact that he's just a glorified errand runner, lmfao.
Dude's a fucking Sextus, a rank that often signifies an entire mayor or headsman administrator of a land, like Fadrique, and all he does is ferry messages back and forth between Senators.
Fuck, even when he becomes a motherfucking QUINTUS, a rank that even some Senators like his godsdamned father with a renowned family name are, he keeps running messages and occasionally chipping in with his opinions. He only really becomes useful to provide leaked info that Ostius gives him, and his rank only seems to get him a bit of an inroad with the Senators with absolutely no actual work done.
But at least that's better than Aequa, who becomes a Quintus right off the bat and then we are not told a single THING about what she does for work other than her apprenticing under some Aedile. Apprenticing in what?!?!? Which department is this Aedile (rank unknown) even in?!?!? Presumably it has something to do with the Censor, but what exactly?!?!? What did Aequa even think about all the Proscriptions that the government released to basically tell people to kill tens of thousands for their property? Being in Governance and working with the Censor, wouldn't she have seen or interacted with that line of work? After all, the Censor is likely the department with all the information on people and their property and land and belongings...
