Theodosius - The Emperor of the Roman Empire

Valentinian was a young boy living in constantinople when his father died. He had not yet been invested with any of the legal titles an heir usually receives. Every one had assumed he would take over the west from henorius. But without gallop lacidia and valentinian physically present in ravenna to clamp down on nonsense talk, they began to wonder if there was not an opportunity here to be exploited. Theodosius stalling merely emboldened the nobility in italy to choose their own man.