Actually, the barbarians who sacked Old Tanium didn’t wear woad. The barbarians Maureen Ramsay is descended from probably did, though. Of course, the Old Tanians would argue that the Meerish and Weserlander royal armies which battered the Tanian Republic into submission and declared the Restored Empire were pretty much the same as the mustachioed (but… Continue reading #56: barbarians at the gate