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They built a wall to keep it out of their empire.
They were happy to conquer France, but whatever they saw in Scotland, they would rather it stayed on the other side of a pile of bricks.
Also, Fatrick is fat. He probably has Tiny Tim hobbling up and down Hadrians wall to get to places in London, in his abortion of a historical horror novel.
The only way he can relate to Victorian or Edwardian London is the fact that he dwells in a derelict hovel and drinks heavily due to the surrounding grim landscape.
Niki looks like she has consumption too.
little hit of historical sperging, but the area the Romans called Caledonia was the part of modern Scotland north of the Firth and Clyde, i.e. the highlands; the lowlands, the borders and everything up to central belt were part of BritanniaThe Romans never saw any point in conquering Scotland because it was full of quarrelsome savages and had no real resources they'd want to exploit. Same with Ireland. Shit, the whole province never really payed out enough for the maintenance costs of the military they stationed there. Nero came close to abandoning the whole place, and it was really just a prestige thing that kept them there, in my opinion.
though the Romans later retreated to Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall was the historical outer limit of their territory
they also reached and traded with what's now Ireland (Hibernia), though they never had any interest in conquering it