Finally... He has become consul! Quite interesting and even roleplaylike: at first, he developed a trait saying that he sees himself as a veritable demi-god. Then he suddenly became ill and the trait said, that he was most likely being poisoned. So I let him leave rome and go to his old family home in arpi. There he recovered, and after this returned to rome. After his return he was elected consul. Really a cool story, and written by the game itself. Now he has departed rome, leading a newly raised lupercian (marian) Legion to conquer the libyan desert and ask the oracle of the oasis of siwa wheter he is truly a reincarnation of alexander the great... . I guess I know the priests answer when his Legion offers them their help to find it... Probably he will even meet a nice egyptian princess if he is delivered a new carpet ? That would mean quite a hard time for her sis' and bros' (and husbands [shudder])down in Alexandria... . It would be cool to combine in one character the lives of Marius, Caesar and Antonius .
Oh, and by the way: yes, he only became consul at the age of 51. But now I have seen two other Generals (both Patricius / Optimates, so they would not have helped me getting the reforms) who have become consul and are only about 47 or 48 years old. So this can't be a criteria - or only for a general who is popularis?