Spreading the Tribe

Spreading the Tribe

**of Note**

Who were they, these nasty bastards who came like a wind from the east on their tiny horses? In 372 the Huns crossed the Volga and conquered and enslaved the Ostrogoths. Our tribe immediately saw the danger in this mad people with the Wyrm in their trousers, and when the Silver Fangs asked us for help to fight them, we agreed. Some of us ran alongside the Visigoths, hiding among their number; they crossed the Danube River and settled as allies inside the Empire. However, the bastards cheated us, and they mistreated our Kinfolk. This was the tip of the iceberg.

The Silver Fangs and their puny allies, the Warders of Men, had gone too far, and it was time to show them what stuff the Sons and Daughters of Fenris were made of. We went on a rampage, and destroyed every Roman legion we could find.

The puny Eastern Roman emperor Valens tried to stop us, and his successor found head of Valens on a pole, and his army vanquished. The Battle of Adrianople, one of the greatest battles in the history, completely destroyed the illusion of the Roman Empire’s invincibility, and caused more than one hundred and fifty years of chaos and disorder for Rome. Hah!

A great Fenrir Kinfolk, Alaric, took command and lead his Visigoths on a campaign of plunder and pillage across the Empire, and sacked Rome in 410.

The Empire tried to cut a deal and gave him Gaul, or France, as a peace offering. Alaric took it, but also invaded and conquered Spain without the frightened Romans daring to protest. But Alaric’s attack on Italy had been more than just a ruse: The Romans brought everything they had down to Italy to protect Rome from Alaric, to no avail, and as a result the unguarded frontiers were flooded with Germanic tribes. Our Kinfolk and their tribesmen literally populated the continent, and the Romans could never shake them after this.

The most important shifts in the human population for our tribe were Franks settling Gaul, and the Angles, Saxons and Jutes invading Britain. Also, the Vandals moved through Gaul to Spain and tried to settle in Africa, and the Burgundians settled the Rhone Valley. And where these humans went, we would go as well, seeing what they saw.