AD 530

IT IS A TIME OF CONFLICT AND FALSE DAWN

The Roman Empire is a shadow of what it once was.
With the Western provinces lost to barbarism, the Imperium clings to a reduced remnant ruled from Nova Roma: the Eternal City of Constantinople. As a new Emperor accedes to the throne determined to arrest decades of decay, the fires of war are stoked in the east by an ancient enemy bent on its final destruction.

THE SON OF A DISGRACED SENATOR

Lucian Hypatius is the inheritor of a name shunned by the very empire his family has served faithfully for generations. Fuelled by a desire to right the injustice of his father's past failures, he seeks to forge his own path in service to the empire's last great hope against the growing threat: General Flavius Belisarius.

A YOUNG WOMAN BORN OF THE STREETS

Cast out from a home she has no memory of and discarded by a city that has no use for her, Ariadne leads a shadow life of theft and deception on the perilous streets of Constantinople. A fateful encounter with the famed scholar Procopius of Caesarea will set her upon the path of history.

TO FORGE A NEW LEGACY

Their destinies will come together on an odyssey that will carry them across an ailing world.
On the path to war, they will discover if a new future can be forged, or if the tides of history and the shadows of legacy are too far-reaching to escape.