Patine
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So, I plan the scenario to start in the year 335, right after the death of Constantine I (styled 'the Great') and the effective (and not legal in contemporary viewpoint) division of the Roman Empire between his three sons, Constantius II, Constantine II, and Constans !, and his nephew Dalmatius. The 'protagonist' line of the scenario, which covers the main lineage of what is historigraphically called the West Roman Empire, starts with Constans I, who received as his demesne a large territory including Italia, Gallia, Britannia, Hispania, and Africa (in it's limited Roman definition) with his capital at the traditional, ancestral city of Rome. It will likely go into somewhere in the 6th, maybe early 7th Century, to allow for ahistorical success. The other six players (at this point) are the East Romans, Sassanid Persians, Sarmatians, Huns, Germanii, and Picto-Celts. Barbarians encompass such fringe peoples as Nubians, Kuhorsehockyes, Arabs, and Avars, and peoples who revolt against Imperial authority (namely Jewish insurgents and Manacheanistic reactionaries, as well as revolts by the Praetorian Guard and individual Roman generals and provincial governors), and the Dacians, who begin under Roman authority but successfully attained their independence almost a century-and-a-half before the Sack of Rome). A number of noteworthy units are event-spawned important figures, including Emperors (East, West, and Usurper), Shahanshahs, barbarian kings like Attila the Hun, Alaric I, Theodoric I, Odoacer, and Conan Merriadoc, as well as an appearance by Pope Leo I as well. Those are initial thoughts on a very broad breakdown of things.