Oh yeah, @Raineh Daze, Cloacina's reference to Jen as a barbarian is perfectly accurate. She's an Anglo-Saxon, a descendant of the Germanic foederati that was subsidised by Rome to fight its wars. Roman Britain was a thing, of course, but it the Romano-Britons aren't the English, really. The Saxons only began to move into Britain after the decline of the Empire.

@Raineh Daze The surname "White" is an Anglo-Saxon one, rather than being of Cornish or Welsh origin.

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I would like to introduce you to deed polls.

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Deed polls that are legally recognised by a Germanic royal family.

Deed polls in a country that with Germanic cultural roots and a national identity mostly influenced by a Germanic culture.

And did the White family make sure to engage in highly selective marriages to keep their Cornish blood pure of any Germanic taint?

A barbarian could still become an Emperor.

But after fifteen hundred years, is Jen really a Romano-Briton, or Anglo-Cornish?

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An irrelevant question, as I don't recall the edict of Caracalla suddenly not applying. Ethnological lines make no damn difference, because the citizenry was composed mostly of non-Italians towards the end. Either everybody's a barbarian now because the Empire doesn't exist, or anybody from within its former bounds isn't. >.>

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The Edict of Caracalla is irrelevant to whether or not Jen could be considered a barbarian. Given the term was essentially used to refer to foreigners, especially Germanics near the end (such as the foederatus), Cloacina views Jen as being a descendant of said Germanics (specifically, the Saxons) in some way, thus applies the label of 'barbarian' to her.

work's been putting me through the ringer

who knew a small staff (3 lads) having to teach a bunch of kids how to beat eachother up all week with no days off was so mentally draining