Late Roman Empire (395-450

The Late Roman Empire was a time marked by almost constant war, violence and chaos for the two emperors who had the job of holding up the sinking ship. Through unknown means the two halves of the empire were taken up by Emperors Paulos "Dynamo" and Sufferthornius, members of noble families. The two shared a bromance of sorts, even buttfucking each other in an dirty outhouse and writing frothy love poetry. Alas, their love was not to be, for this was a time of tragedy, of death, violence, economic collapse, and barbarians.
It began with large scale infighting among provincial governors and peasants, with many thousands dying in local civil wars. Things quickly deteriorated, with several of these peasant kings seceding from the eastern empire and fighting amongst each other. When the eastern emperor heard of this, he started a series of wars to fight the usurpers and bring the light of Rome back to them. Word was sent to the west, which was far more stable than the east, to mobilize for the good of the empire.
His first moves were to besiege and take several smaller dukes and fiefdoms, before moving onto the demons of Macedon, who refused to be taken. Thousands died as the war for the stability of the east rage, with the campaigns taking four decades to eventually be won. After the surrender of the warlords, a massive barbarian horde arrived in southern Greece and began ransacking everything in sight in an attempt to annex the area.
When that was finally done with the two emperors were completely exhausted, their love but a distant memory in the haze and smoke of the world that had so wronged them. In old age and even older spirits they watched as their work was utterly unappreciated by the retards they had so fought to protect, and they just sorta gave up at some point and killed themselves.