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The Ancient Empires

Prologue

I guess I owe all of you this explanation. It's actually been a long time coming, and I'm sorry that I never told any of you. But it was necessary. We were all so afraid that you would all carry our burdens, that you wouldn't be free from the mistakes that we had made. So we all swore never to say a word to all of you, to bury the truth when the earth buried us. One by one, we all fell, we who ruled the earth. We walked as gods on the earth, and indeed, some of us were even worshipped. Foolishness and arrogance on our behalf. But you have to understand. We were so great! We wielded power that all of you have only dreamt off. We were nearly invincible, and we were so certain that we would never die. We were so certain of who we were, nobody ever questioned us, nobody ever thought to reprimand us and show us that we were all so wrong.

Fools, all of us.

And that was why we decided to keep all the secrets away from all of you. That you could grow up free from the guilt that plagued our immortal souls. Some of you were there too. But you don't remember it, because we made sure you didn't.

But now, it can't be helped. What with things being as it is, I can't keep silent for any longer.

Yes, I will reveal the truth to you all. So that you may understand what's happening, and why it's happening, and how to all came to pass. It is a long tale, and we have so little time, but I will do my best to recount it to you.

Oh the shame.

We are the Ancient Empires, and this is our story.

This is essentially a story about the Ancient Empires, the precursor to the Nations. Obviously, the only AEs so far mentioned in Hetalia Canon characters is Rome and Germania, and to a lesser extent, Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and Byzantium. In this fic, there will obviously be a lot more Ancient Empires popping up other than the five mentioned above.

Now, for the warnings.

This is an OC filled fic, and I'll be taking a lot of liberties with their relationships. Not that the Hetalians won't be making appearances, but this story focuses mainly on the OCs.

While a few historical events will be mentioned here and there, this fic DOES NOT follow history to a T. Hence, please don't come after me if the relationships between the AEs don't play out according to how they interacted in history.

There is definitely going to be tons of sensitive topics being approached in this fic, this being the time where people had different mind sets about race, religion and gender. Note that I don't intend to insult anyone with this fic, it's just how people thought back then.

OOC-ness may occur at times, but that's solely because the way I see it, the characters of Rome and Germania became what they are in the series because of the events in this fic. As it progresses, they'll start to act more like how they do in the Canon Hetalia-verse.

Violence and sex, while not graphically described in his fic, will be hinted at.

Updates will be sporadic, and mainly on a "when-I-get-inspiration" basis. I have a general idea of the ending, but the journey there is still cloudy.

And that's all the warnings covered. I hope you'll enjoy my head canon of Hetalia. Special thanks to R-ninja on deviantart for giving me the inspiration to create all the Ancient Empires, go and check his work out on them. Also, please read One Big Happy, a fanfic written by crimson-obsidian-rose, which also inspired me to start planning out the lives of the AEs.