The placement of the Charlemagne's throne and its proportional ratios create a symbolic image of the Heavenly Jerusalem, expressed in numbers. Probably following the biblical model of the throne of Solomon, which also placed the ruler in a separate sphere by means of a gallery, the throne was assigned the highest place and thereby unmistakably symbolised the Emperor's claim to temporal and spiritual rulership over the realm and his function as mediator between heaven and earth. 

An altar to the Archangel Michael stood in the room behind the throne. Accordingly, the king sitting on the royal throne could be assured that the Archangel literally "had his back".

מנא מנא תקל ופרסין 

God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it
you have been weighed ... and found wanting 
your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians

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​THE SADIST SAYS I can do whatever I like to you because you'll never leave me


THE MASOCHIST SAYS you can do anything you like to me as long as you never leave me

The Empire was weakend by dynasitc infighting: the Goths, under their leader Aleric, made a bold move. Aleric laid seige to rome.
Rome's elite, inheritors of an illustrious past, refused to meet the demands of barbarians.
Aleric's response was chillling, the thicker the grass, the easier to cut it down.

His dagger was at the throat of the Western empire but still no compromise.
Starvation set in.
The roman's couldn't bury their dead inside the city walls and putrifying bodies began to litter the streets.

Desparate to put the population out of its misery a roman noble woman opened the city gates.

In the past week I have taken an amount of xanax that would kill a small child

have you?