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Hello and welcome to the history of roam.

Episode 111.

Phase 1 Complete.

The Battle of a British forced the Romans to deal with something they had never before had to face.

The death of an emperor in battle.

Up until now, emperors had died of natural causes, or they had been assassinated, or they had committed suicide,

but never had they fallen to an enemy sword.

The gods struck down emperors, where the Romans struck down emperors, or emperors struck down themselves.

But they were not knocked off by some common barbarian warrior.

It simply wasn't done.

But while this humiliating blow to the national psyche was immense, the Romans did not have long to dwell on their misery,

because there was one big practical problem the death of Deesius had left them with.

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