Valens

Valens at a fort made by Diolctian

Valentian (Brother)

Gratian the Elder (Father)

Albia Dominica (wife)

Marina Severa (sister-in-law)

Justina (sister-in-law)

Galla (niece)

Valens is the co-emperor and brother to Emperor Valentinian, whom he had a joint rule over the Empire with Valens in the East and Valentinian in the West. Unlike his brother, Valens wasn't as stubborn as Valentinian, which led to his fatal mistake of letting the Goth cross the Danube out of misplaced compassion that let to demise of him and the army at Battle of Adrianople along with Gothic incursion into Roman Empire.

## In Unbiased History

### "Imperial Wrath"

Valens is first seen as his brother Valentinian becomes the new emperor and decides to split the empire with him, becoming the eastern augustus, we later see him intervening against Shapur II who was torturing the armenian king to death, while procopius being a total leech decided to attempt another usurpation, allying with corrupt border guards and goths in the border, and with Valentinian deciding to not help, Valens (Thinking about suicide, but later overcoming it) managed to defeat and kill procopius after his "allies" betrayed him and chained him.
Valens tried a campaign against the goths but besides making some progress he had to back away, as the goths kept coming as if "something" was pushing them towards the borders. Valens is seen sometime after Valentinian's death, having restored Pap to the throne because Shapur was busy with something about an invasion in the east and so did the goths, who were adressing a peace with Valens, Valens then dealt with Pap as he was a terrible king which triggered Shapur and started another war with the sassanids forcing him to send legions to syria.
Valens is later seen commiting the 2nd biggest mistake of his life, giving the visigoths and ostrogoths asylum, which backfired tremendously as they started raiding the shit out the balkans, and as things got out of control Valens marched north towards Adrianople as in the west Gratian also did that but got stopped by Merobaudes who, like always, was being an absolute cunt, and then in Adrianople Valens commited his biggest mistake.....................attacking and got absolutely flanked and slaughtered in the Battle of Adrianople, dying in a random house after recieving a fatal wound

## Trivia

* Valens was technically an Arian Christian due to being baptized by an Arian Arch Bishop of Constantinople before his battle against Goths who supported the usurper, Procopius.
* One of the major reasons for Valens' allowance of Goths to cross the Danube had to do with his need of soldiers in the East along with a buffer state due to Late Roman Empire's chronic manpower issues.
	+ Furthermore, unlike Unbiased History's depictions, Goths were the victims rather than ungrateful invaders as the entire conflict began with local officials mismanaging their migration and exploiting them by exchanging their children for dog and cat meats.

* Like Valentinian, Valens was tolerant of paganism despite being a Christian.

* Valens was similar to Decius in that they both died in battle against the Goths at a similar age.
* He was actually a good administrator, though his indecisiveness and passive nature led to Procopius’ revolt and the situation leading to Battle of Adrianople due to his poor choice of subordinates and reluctance to punish for their failures.
* he was Married to Albia Dominica who would be regent betwen his death and theosoidus ariving
* Valens had a son. but he died early.
* Valens would carry the guilt of killing Pap for the rest of his life.
* The Battle of Adrianople was more than his general's fault, since they mostly left the battle due to fear. Not only missing opportunities which may turn the battle into their favour, but also discourged the soldiers for facing the Goths. Thanks to that, he was doomed.
* Ironically, he fought the battle with his palace warriors until he died due to an arrow.