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How to Get into Re-Enactment and Reconstruction
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Hello, Scott

I certainly agree with Ivor. Many individuals in the Roman auxiliary, the Alans in particular, had Eastern Asian features. Alans are described in one translation of Ammianus Marcellinus as having a... "fierce gaze, due to the cant of their eyes." The Alans, and an untold number of pastoralists who migrated from the borders of China (aka the Roxolani, Aorsi, Huns) descended from the Yuezhi and Xiongnu. They wore clean-shaven faces or upturned moustaches, never beards, in what Karl Jettmar termed as a "national fashion." Saul, an Alan and Magister Militum under Stilicho for a single day, had Asiatic features. So, you are the perfect candidate for an auxiliary. Big Grin
Alan J. Campbell

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RE: How to Get into Re-Enactment and Reconstruction - by Alanus - 01-07-2017, 03:32 PM

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