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Titus is a mad dog and must be put down.
— Red Rising, Ch. 29

Arlus of Thebos, better known as Titus au Ladros is one of Darrow's classmates. He is in House Mars.

Appearance[]

He is near two and half meters tall.

Personality[]

Darrow finds Titus impossible to like because Titus seems to sneer at everyone and think everything's a joke.

Involvement[]

Early in the book Darrow, Antonia, and he split loyalty in House Mars, with most loyal to Titus. He perpetrates innumerable acts of violence at the Institute, like hiding a tied Ceres girl in front of House Ceres' gate then baits Ceres students to come out who accidentally trample the girl to death. He also perpetrates innumerable accounts of rape for which he is tried and found guilty by Darrow later in Red Rising. When he is caught, Darrow confronts Titus and questions him about his actions. Darrow begins to sense Titus is more scorn than pride. Titus begins rambling about how they took "her" and raped "her" in front of him so he did it back to their daughters. Titus uses the word "bloodydamn" and Darrow pieces together and realizes in shock that Titus is also a Red. He almost executes him but then allows Cassius to duel him in single combat to redeem the incident where Cassius was beaten to a pulp by Titus and pissed on. Cassius also believes that Titus is the one who killed Julian in the Passage. In the duel, Titus is no match for Cassius as Cassius repeatedly thrusts his blade into Titus's flesh saying "You killed Julian" even after Titus is long dead.

Darrow buries him in a grove near a river, hoping it speeds him on his way to the vale. Despite the monstrosities Titus committed, Darrow thinks about how pain must've broken Titus and hopes he and Titus can meet in the Vale as brothers one day.

Arlus was carved by an associate of Mickey's with his consultation. Darrow only discovers these details when he meets with Harmony at the beginning of Golden Son, who hand-picked him from the mines, much as Dancer did with Darrow.

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