The o.general remembers – a misplaced army = “Eagle” = 5000 men lost… Roman legionaries. The fighting elite were lost in the North; the tribes crushed them. Not a single one returned apart from one or two horses. The invincible army including the standard Eagle disappeared. The wall was constructed. Hadrinaus wall.
The empire ends. Beyond this wall there is nothing.
– What is beyond the wall?
– Little one, there’s is noting beyond the wall. There’s nothing there (except the Eagle, the standard, 5th or 14th? All were lost, you and my life, what we’re fighting for, our pride, codex, that would be the souliders’ creed.
And you will need to fight, now!