This also necessitated tax reform and the end of private tax farmers. The most important changes to come, however, were not from the various conquests, but from the internal reforms put into place by Emperor Vitus, who emerged victorious in the ensuing civil wars of the early second century and established a new dynasty of his own.Īmong Vitus' reforms were a restructuring of the military, shifting the role of soldier's pay from their generals to the imperial throne.
By the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in AD 95 (848 AUC), Imperial borders stretched from the Elbe river in the north, the Saharan wastes to the south, and the Euphrates river to the east. Campaigns into Germania and Marcomannia continued, and were finalized under his own son and successor, Emperor Germanicus. Not since the Trojan war had the gods taken an active role in the world, at least in the West.ĭrusus, known to history as Drusus the Lame due to his limp following a fall from his horse, soon took the reigns of the Empire. Mourning turned to celebration, and a new star appeared in the sky to mark the occasion. The divine messenger announced that the revered Caesar had ascended into the pantheon of gods and would continue to preside over his subjects from the afterlife. While all of Rome gathered around his mausoleum, their cries were interrupted by the appearance of Mercury himself. However, his reign could not last forever, and in AD 14 (767 AUC) the Emperor shuffled off his mortal coil. While events don't exactly repeat themselves, they certainly rhyme and feel familiar to our own world, and I think the end product will be both alien and mundane, as the more things change the more they stay the same.Īfter nearly a century of calamity and civil war, Augustus Caesar successfully took the throne as the first Roman Emperor and brought about decades of unprecedented peace. I don't think of it as alternate history, per se, but more. This timeline is a bit different from anything else I've made.
After far too long, I feel it's finally ready to post online and share with everyone else. One of them has revolved around revisiting one of my older maps here and giving it a major overhaul. Although I've been on hiatus for a while now, I've still been actively working on various maps and scenarios.
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