A "Futuristic" Tale: As Yet Untitled

**Byzantinophile** · 12-10-2006, 15:09

In the vein of frogbeastegg and Stephen Asen doing epics; I wished to do the same, but also I wished to be original. How, though, could I do so? I can’t write military books like Drake and Flint do so well with The Belisarius Series or other authors, but I wanted to include the Byzantine Campaign I had played through to it’s momentous conclusion. So, I decided to do a sort of Historical view of my campaign while including a dramatic back story to it.

Thus I came up with this summary, for an as yet, unnamed work, that also needs editing:

1892 Anno Domini: It is four hundred years since the Roman Empire had held land in France and most of Western Europe, but the repercussions are still felt to the present day. Western Europe is only just finished recovering from the devastating war between the Empire and the former Russian Empire that covered it’s length and breadth and the ensuing mass rebellions, and is also going through political transitions as well; new Kingdoms being erected upon the scattered ashes of the old, exemplified by the French Kingdom. The North and South, once divided and fighting each other while under vassalage of the two great Empires, are now reunited, and having to get past the old divisions that were fostered by war and still plague the country.

Into this learning and growing age is thrown the rapidly growing influence of the Americas, (discovered by the Spaniards, and influenced heavily by a resurgent Britain and Spain/Rome) still largely unexplored and mapped, and the two great powers there, the Mayan League and the Iroquois Federation, both modernising rapidly, and importing ideas, such as gunpowder warfare, and urbanisation. Tensions are rising between the two powers and their respective protectorates and satellite and tributary peoples; war seems like it will erupt soon.

Alexius Pallas is a lowly aristocratic French student in the prestigious university/ military institute in Versailles, France: Ton Hagia Scholeia it is called, the former fortress where one of the most famous generals other than Belisarius in Imperial History, Saint Vicente the Spaniard, had held off hundred thousand man armies of the Russians and their vassals with only tens of thousands of men. When he and a promising Military Institute student, the American Vincent Axtlatli, go to Constantinople for summer vacation, they stumble upon a slew of mysteries; a relic stolen from the Cathedral of the University, an assassination attempt on a beautiful princess, secret agents, and a harrowing chase through Europe to stop a document that could lead to the fall of the Roman Empire all lead to a climactic discovery of Alexius and Vincent’s that could change the world as it is known.

It is meant not to be like an action/adventure like it sounds (it will have elements of that though), but more of a dynastic mystery/epic that we find out as we read. I have grand overarching ideas for it, and it will be a lot slower than the summary makes it out to be.

if anyone would care to help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks,

Byzantinophile.