The concept of the \"Dark Ages\"

[Diocle]

I think there is definitely some misundrestanding in the term. The Dark Ages still experienced Technological advancement, and the Successor states upheld the Roman Civil and Military system through things like the Lex Gundobada and the Lex Vesigotorum. The Merovingians, Ostrogoths, Vesigoths, etc. all used Roman military and civil systems, the problem was that the Romans came back up through North Africa and Italy, destryoying the infrastructure.

Military not for sure.

I don't know from what novel you created this Fantasy tale but the Merovingian Military System, the Langobard Military System, the Anglo-Saxon military System, the Burgundian, Visigoth, Bavarian and Turingian Miliatry systems were absolutely another world compared to the Roman Military system, different social hierarchy, different system of economic and social classes, different moral and cultural values, different political structure, different warfare organization, different army composition in social terms and in military terms, it was another world my dear boy ....