It's the year 410 AD, the Visigoths are sacking the city of Rome. A rift in the fabric of space-time occurs at the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. Suddenly multiple dimensions collide and coalesce. Time travelers & space farers exist alongside terrestrials who had previously lived thousands of years apart. The world is now a fractured patchwork of time and space with Rome at the center of it all. The world is now RomanPunk...

About RomanPunks

RomanPunks is a retrofuturistic, cyberpunk derivative world-building project inspired by fine art, history and the cryptopunk movement.

A total of 1,000 RomanPunk characters have been frozen in time and minted as Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on the Ethereum, WAX, Polygon and Algorand blockchains.

RomanPunk characters are comprised of commoners and famous individuals based on Roman history, art history and pop culture.

The basis for RomanPunk lore and backstories is exhaustively researched by history/sci-fi buff and co-founder, Punktavian.

All images are drawn by hand by woman artist and co-founder, Cleopunktra, without the aid of AI or generative tools.

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Project Timeline

April MMXXI

The RomanPunk Genesis Collection on Ethereum

RomanPunks came into existence through early minting on OpenSea, promoting on Twitter and building a Discord community through giveaways and engagement. The idea of a cyberpunk-derivative ‘RomanPunk’ theme was in our heads for years, but it was the success of the Cryptopunks that became the catalyst for project conception and launch.

June MMXXI

The Summer of Gladiators

After a hard working first 60 days spent networking and attracting new collectors to RomanPunks, our community had begun to flourish and sales increased. We began to offer our collectors an opportunity to battle their NFTs in a tournament bracket powered by dice rolls.

July MMXXI

Launch of the WAX Blockchain Collection

Encouraged by the tight knit community and the carbon-neutral blockchain with lightning fast and low cost transactions, we launched 'romanpunksio' collection on WAX Blockchain as the first step to expand the backstories of our RomanPunk characters and the baseline for future development of a card game.

September MMXXI

Chainlink VRF Integration

RomanPunks integrated with Chainlink Labs to utilize VRF (Verified Randomness Function) to host a giveaway raffle for our holders. We developed a smart contract on Ethereum which guarantees true random number selection on chain and can be used for a wide range of functions that require random selection.

November MMXXI

WAX Fighter Pack Series I

After much anticipation in the community, we released our first WAX NFT card 'pack' through the Neftyblocks platform, which sold out in less than a week.

December MMXXI

Colosseum Clash on Twitch

We launched our Twitch channel and begun building an audience by offering numerous giveaways of WAX NFTs from our collection, as well as giving participants a chance to win RomanPunk ETH NFT airdrops for taking top spot at the end of the 'season'.

January MMXXII

RomanPunk CyberColosseum on The Sandbox Metaverse

As firm believers in a metaverse future and land owners in The Sandbox, we undertook to build the RomanPunk Colosseum on 1x1 land and entered our experience "Gladiator Bloodsport" into a GameJam contest. We will continue to build the Colosseum into a PVP arena and social hub once The Sandbox offers creators the ability to do so.

March MMXXII

WAX NFT Blending

Thanks to the user friendly tools offered by NeftyBlocks, we launched a comprehensive blending system on WAX, allowing our collectors to blend the common NFTs they earn in our Discord RPG up into Legendary famous NFTs through the use of blending 'coins' that can also be earned on the Discord as reward for helping to promote the RomanPunks project.

April MMXXII

RomanPunks VX on Polygon

We launched the VX collection on Polygon. Each owner of an ETH NFT gets their voxel equivalent airdropped to them, and these NFTs can be redeemed for official NFTs on The Sandbox Marketplace once available.

Summer MMXXII

1,000 ETH Supply Cap Reached

All 1,000 original, unique 1:1 RomanPunk characters hand drawn by Cleopunktra and minted on OpenSea.

Winter MMXXII

WAX Fighter Pack Series II

RomanPunks WAX Fighter Pack Series II banner

The RomanPunk WAX NFT Trading Card Fighter Pack Series II consists of 3 NFTs randomly selected from over 236 characters.

hic sumus

Coming Soon

In the Works...

Upcoming plans for RomanPunks include:

WAX NFT Civilian Pack
Tabletop Card Game
New project for The Sandbox metaverse

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Cast of Characters

Below is a comprehensive and searchable directory of all 1,000 RomanPunk Characters.

salim syrah nabataean peregrinus

nabataean

#649 – Salim Syrah

Born 2172 AD in Petra, Salim is an itinerant lounge lizard now anchored to the tiki bar at Neo-Carthage’s Atlanta Hotel after gambling away his life savings and falling into crippling debt with the Red Sands Syndicate. Manipulated by Zalika Malika to spy on the governor and his associates, his drunkenness and ineptitude soon render him a liability, forcing him to flee underground to escape both the syndicate and the governor’s wrath. Eventually, he stumbles into the hands of the rebels, who pity his sorry state but recognize how his blunders can create unforeseen opportunities.

satoshi aoki japanese peregrinus

japanese

#416 – Satoshi Aoki

Born 1705 AD in Kyoto, Satoshi, a diplomat, discovered an interdimensional portal while on a trip to Rome and never looked back. He now travels across time and space in search of Shangri-la.

sigrid saltborn cimbri equestrian

cimbri

#301 – Sigrid Saltborn

Born 123 BC on the mystical isle of Læsø, Sigrid comes from an advanced tribe of wealthy salt barons with access to interdimensional travel. When not gallivanting through the future, she spends her time training champion ‘golden retriever’ canines on her remote, bucolic island paradise.

xylon tinner helvetian gladiator

helvetian

#880 – Xylon Tinner

Born 266 AD in Basel to dimension-hopping inventors from the 23rd century, Xylon learned from his mother how to make advanced weapons, and from his father how to use them. Now he travels across space and time in search of his next fight.

tim ptolemy egyptian centurion

egyptian

#515 – Tim Ptolemy

Born 2159 AD in Luxor-Thebes, Tim is a battle-hardened mercenary centurion, veteran of the brutal Dacian Vampire Wars and direct descendant of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Now, he fights for the Nabataean Red Sands Syndicate, backing a cloned Hannibal Barca’s insurrection against Neo-Carthage’s corrupt governor and the cyborg Emperor Caligula. Leading a ragtag crew of gladiators and charioteers, Tim helps orchestrate the siege on Neo-Carthage, while Hannibal’s underground forces sow chaos within the city. Guided by profit, Tim’s loyalty is always to the highest bidder, making him a dangerous yet predictable player in the uprising.

herbertus muco roman soldier

roman

#809 – Herbertus Muco

Born in 111 AD in Rome, Herbertus is a soldier of the Lost Cohort, which disappeared on campaign in Caledonia. Muco and his comrades were transported to an alternate dimension where they were equipped with hi-tech weapons and armor by sympathetic druid hackers seeking new allies.

conchar mulloyi hibernian gladiator

hibernian

#817 – Conchar Mulloyi

Born in 44 BC in Eblana, Conchar is a POW captured in Britain and forced to fight as a gladiator. With an unblemished record of wins, he drew the attention of time traffickers and was portaled to the 28th century AD to fight in the cybercolosseum.

lyra lamia briton equestrian

briton

#319 – Lyra Lamia

Born 120 AD in Londinium, Lyra is a dimension-hopping reveler who spends much of her time in a 1980s AD alternate universe, engaging in anti-imperialist activities and seeking out the greatest parties in that halcyon world of Roman hegemony, blending her love for Bacchanalian revelry with a spirit of resistance.

nyla vespertine illyrian peregrinus

illyrian

#583 – Nyla Vespertine

Born 2055 AD in Spalatum, Nyla is a sanguinarian with a degree in vampire anthropology who works as a disillusioned barista. In her spare time, she seeks an interdimensional portal to ancient Dacia where she hopes to be bitten and turned by a hunky antediluvian nosferatu.

Ysella Ysolde aquitanian plebeian

aquitanian

#626 – Ysella Ysolde

Born 2072 AD in Limonum, Ysella is a pre-ludus art teacher who teaches the fundamentals of finger painting with the help of her hyperintelligent poodle, Pamala. But when class is over, Ysella leads a double life as a radical activist, hurling cans of paint at ancient monuments to protest against the Empire’s space-polluting fusion-powered rocket ships. Though her defiance may seem futile against the faceless, massive galactic Empire, Ysella persists, knowing that even the smallest splash of color can challenge the darkness.

morys mygdon phrygian gladiator

phrygian

#852 – Morys Mygdon

Born in 144 BC in Gordion, Morys, a blacksmith, and his brother Pierpont, an accountant, were enslaved by the Romans and forced into gladiator combat. Morys was shipped off to an alternate dimension, dedicating his life to return and watch over his younger sibling.

dex moros cilician slave

cilician

#580 – Dex Moros

Born in 108 BC in Tarsus, Dex was a formidable pirate who was captured during Sulla’s purges and forced into interdimensional slavery mining titanium on the Jovian moon of Io where he operates a covert methamphetamine trafficking ring.

storm skou cimbri gladiator

cimbri

#833 – Storm Skou

Born in 131 BC in Jutland, Storm was a blacksmith in the disastrous war against the Roman forces of Gaius Marius. After their defeat, his wife, Oda, was enslaved as Marius’ concubine and he was cast into a dimensional portal to serve as a gladiator in a parallel universe of a Roman atomic age.

mac agricolenus caledonian slave

caledonian

#316 – Mac Agricolenus

Born 61 AD in Fife, Mac was captured by Agricola’s troops at the Battle of Mons Graupius and dispatched to Mauritania by Emperor Domitian as a slave farmer. While toiling in the fields, he discovered an interdimensional portal which he used to escape to an alternate 20th century in which the Roman Empire remains unvanquished. Now he operates a chariot harvester on a commercial wheat farm.

geil latrocinia vandal centurion

vandal

#892 – Geil Latrocinia

Born in 425 AD in Cartagena, Geil’s mother experienced an immaculate conception by the angel Lucifer. Geil was raised among the 80,000 Vandals invading Africa, later becoming a military commander who is responsible for countless atrocities.

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