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@Assassin's Art you said that you had to enchant armour to block 100% of damage just to finish the game, to me that is an incredible length to go to and confirms that the levelling must be outragiously bad.

As for the Roman thing, yes Rome was the core and was the most "Roman" place in the Empire but when the Romans conquered a new land they would set up a judicary in every major city, that would then attract Roman nobles who would build villas in the local area. Also, the legionaires that conquered the region we're generally given the land as a pension so that they could farm it in their old age. Basically it meant that there was a large enough Roman population in each region.

On top of that the native nobility in each of the provinces would be copycats and would take on Roman customs to get favour with their rulers. The end result was that most places were Romanised and were recognisably Roman. Just look at London or Bath.

And of course Roman culture spread! That's why every language in western europe is based in Latin, its why we use the Latin alphabet and its also why Christianity stuck.

If the Empire in Tamriel is anything like Rome then Cyrodil and its surrondings should be Roman in order to be genuine, I imagine though that Cyrodil should be an imaginary advanced Roman culture (as in what Rome would of looked like if it had survived for another thousand years). Instead they seem to have just been classic fairy tail medieval (in oblivion) which is a bit dissappointing. They seemed to have made an effort for Skyrim though.