Vae Victis: An Alternate History

by Draconis Darkess

Woe to the Vanquished. These were the words spoken when Rome was sacked centuries ago. However the Vanquished returned with a vengeance and brought down the mighty Tribes. What if they had failed to do so? What if Rome had never became the center of the known world, as they said. What if Rome had died in his cradle? Rated M for war, violence, and intrigue.

1. Prologue

Prologue.

To understand where we are today we look back on what we call history. When we look at history we as people in the present generally do tend to only look in the linear disposition that is time, and as time marches ever forward we fail to see the multitude of possibilities that can spawn from one important event.

So it stands to reason that these Alternate histories range anywhere from a simple divergence leading to a similar modern day as we have now, to an outright shift in the way things happened. So what if one day someone decided to throw a monkey wrench into that giant machine that keeps moving forward called time and hits it right at one of the most important moments in European history?

The infancy of the Roman State. What if Rome in its earliest stages had not beaten back the Etruscans and the Samnites? Though more specifically what if Rome had failed to hold them back in a second wave?

Would Magna Graecia still be Megálē Hellás*? Would the Gallic tribes of Europe have prospered and grown further into their own great empires? Would the Greek world continue to thrive and stand atop the world as the center of civilization? Would Germania have come out of his shell to become a brutal unstoppable force… okay maybe not.

Still it stands to wonder, a world without Rome, where Latin was a term to refer to a group of peoples, not a unified people. A diversity of cultures rather than a singular.

So now we enter into this realm of infinite possibility, and this narrative shall be done as unbiased to my opinion and as close as I can keep it to plausible out comes…

But we are talking hetalia so… Shenanigans will insue if I can find a good reason for them.

Also I'd like to keep at the end of each chapter a summary of the events that happened in our own history to allow a comparision.

Each chapter will cover anywhere from a specific and significant event in the time line, to a rough summarization of the following decade, up to a possibly significant event.

And lastly if you have taken the time to read through this all, thank you for your time, I'm open to any criticism that you may offer and lastly, this will not be dulled down for the sake of the sensitive, people will die, and wars will happen, but also friends will be made, and lost, it's a time when borders changed more than people were born.

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*Manga Graecia and Megálē Hellás both stand for Greater Greece, and basically represent southern Italy up to around Capua and down to island of Sicily.