The weakening empire of Rome has - after centuries of ruling the Mediterranean - collapsed under internal and external pressures alike. The barbarians and Huns led by Uldin to the north, the Zoroastrian Sassanids under Shahansah Bahram IV to the east, and the growing feud between the Roman and Greek rites of the church have finally given way to division and collapse. The fragile western Roman empire is carefully teater-tottering under Honorius as Germanic threats grow ever present. The East, however, proves a formidable and stable nation under Theodosius I's rule. Will the eagle spread its wings once more and reunite? Or will it fall further from the sky and into obscurity? Only time will tell.
