Fall-of-empire narrator: Brooks

Fall-of-empire narrator, elegiac, majestic, and sorrowful

Prompt: A grand, elegiac male fall-of-empire-narrator voice that chronicles the twilight of a great civilization. His deep, sonorous baritone narrates decline and collapse with mournful majesty, treating the death of an empire as the greatest and slowest of tragedies. There's marble grandeur and autumnal sorrow in his tone. The voice of the fall-of-Rome epic—empires die not in battle but in small surrenders.

Script: Empires do not die in battle. That is the comforting myth. The barbarians at the gate, the final glorious stand, the clean and cinematic end. The truth is slower and sadder and far more human. Empires die in the small surrenders: the bribe accepted.