Macrinus and the Fall of the Empire

Caracala had, as you can agine, left the empire in pretty dismal shape. His persistent draining of the treasury to heap rewards upon the legions created a twofold problem for his successor. When macrinus got into power and tried to scale back the soldier's pay he immediately ticked them off something fierce. The people of armenia were angry about caricala's imprisonment of their popular king and the parthians were understandably annoyed at that whole fake wedding, real massacre thing we talked about week.