The Germanic barbarians of the east, unable to contend with this relentless push, also begin to move further into Western Europe and northern Italy, pressing further on the beleaguered Romans. The nomads of the eastern European steppes, unable to maintain a life in the rapidly freezing climate, push frantically into western and southern Europe.
Straining under the weight of its own decadent, corrupted mass, and grown complacent and vulnerable over long centuries of imperial mismanagement, it is slowly pecked apart by enemies innumerable.Ī great chill descends upon the world. The sprawling, bloated tenement of the Western Roman Empire stands on the brink of total collapse.
