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Where we discover how the Romans and the Germans met, through the fate of the fictional character Basen, priestess from the people Suebian (Germans of Central Europe). After the defeat of its king Ariovist against Julius Caesar in 58 BC, she takes refuge in Cherusci, where she is responsible for religious affairs. She attends the gradual conquest of the Germanic territories by the Romans
Real historical figure, Arminius, the son of a warlord, was abducted from his father to be educated in Rome. Becoming Roman officer, he returned to Germany in the year 7 or 8 AD to help the Roman governor Varus to extend the authority of the empire to the north. Back in his homeland, he finds that even if the two nations have become accustomed to live together, the right is flouted by ancient Germanic Romans. Arminius managed to unite so many Germanic peoples and organized rebellion against the Romans. In the battle between the legions of Varus, AD 9, in the Teutoburg Forest, it deals the Roman Empire one of its most severe defeats
After the terrible defeat of Varus, the Romans retreated across the Rhine. To keep the "barbarians" at bay, they build the files. This line is not yet a closed border. It is also a crossing point, both for trade and for the movement of people and ideas. Thus the mid-third century, the young Grifo Germain - the fictional protagonist of the third episode - decides to take refuge on the Roman side of the limes after narrowly escaped an attack by a neighboring tribe in its village. As he refuses to abandon his weapons, he was captured and sold to an organizer of gladiatorial combat. With his experience as a warrior, he thinks he can win a spectacular fight and restore his freedom
The invasions have changed the map of Europe and considerably reduced the power of Rome. At the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni in 496 Clovis, king of the Franks, implores the god of the Christians to give him the victory - and gets it. Now, alongside his warriors, he added more and more bishops, the representatives of Christianity which is the state religion in Rome for over a century already. His vassal Radulf - the fictional narrator of the last episode - grew up in the belief in the gods of the Germans and refused this development. Personal meetings with adherents of the new religion led him gradually to change the image he had formed. When Clovis was baptized at Reims, a little before the year 500, Radulf agreed with the position of his lord and he is responsible for a new mission: to spread the Christian faith throughout the kingdom of the Franks.
