09-26-2018, 05:23 PM
So, we started that the division was only chronological and finally we have seen that whenever date we set it is seen as relevant to distinguish different periods, as I though 
Macrinus was an isolated case and was coming from Rome, he was a Praetorian prefect. This was already a strange situation, but finally not so much different from what happened with Sejanus and Tiberius.
With happened with the Maximinus was the real evidence that something was changing. Low birth, not a roman citizen (he started from auxiliary troops, so no citizenship), he was able to rise to higher ranks great to the Severian reforms, being able to command an entire legion, and from that position conquering the power, without having never been in Rome. Something absolutely new, the actual proof that the army had the power to promote an emperor.
Despite this, it is interesting that the Senate starte a conflict, initially won with the death of Maximinus. But, at the end of the military anarchy, the Senate had become the shadow of itself.
For the Votadini, got the point, I am going to review it and going to remove from the map, probably when I will do a section for the client kingdom I will include as possible but not confirmed. But this does not change the concept
Macrinus was an isolated case and was coming from Rome, he was a Praetorian prefect. This was already a strange situation, but finally not so much different from what happened with Sejanus and Tiberius.
With happened with the Maximinus was the real evidence that something was changing. Low birth, not a roman citizen (he started from auxiliary troops, so no citizenship), he was able to rise to higher ranks great to the Severian reforms, being able to command an entire legion, and from that position conquering the power, without having never been in Rome. Something absolutely new, the actual proof that the army had the power to promote an emperor.
Despite this, it is interesting that the Senate starte a conflict, initially won with the death of Maximinus. But, at the end of the military anarchy, the Senate had become the shadow of itself.
For the Votadini, got the point, I am going to review it and going to remove from the map, probably when I will do a section for the client kingdom I will include as possible but not confirmed. But this does not change the concept
