Easternromanempire Stories

The year 527 AD/CE. The Western Roman Empire and by extent Rome has fallen to the the Ostrogoths, just 50 years earlier. But that is about to change, for Emperor Justin of The Eastern Roman Empire, Or The Byzantine Empire, has died, his successor is his nephew, Petrus Sabbatius, rechristened as Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus, or Justinian I. He has many ambitions, but his greatest ambition is to reclaim Rome, the Eternal City, seat of The Roman Empire. But he needs a commander. That commander shall be a great man as destiny shall show, but forgotten in the Halls of The Past. Let history remember the great Belisarius!

Sub-title: The Roman Secret of the Kaifeng Court One Empire founded in blood. One secret buried in stone. One woman who will defy them both. The year is 961 AD. The scent of incense still hangs heavy in the air of Kaifeng, but the celebrations for the new Northern Song Dynasty have turned to mourning. Emperor Zhao Kuangyin is dead-assassinated by an unknown shadow-leaving the aging Emperor Wu Weilong and Empress Bei Yuao to steer a fractured nation through the storm. Amidst the chaos, the Heimu Clan watches from the markets. To the world, they are mere timber merchants; in reality, they are the Blackwood line, descendants of Roman Generals who fled the collapse of the West to find refuge in the East. Ruo Han (formerly Alexandra Blackwood) refuses to let her family's legacy rot in a warehouse. Bound by a 30-year-old secret and a mind built for war, she cuts her hair and dons the robes of a scholar. As "He Haotian," she enters the cutthroat world of the Imperial Examinations to become the first female official in Chinese history. But the palace is a labyrinth of mirrors. When she is drawn into the inner circle of the 25-year-old Crown Prince Wu Jingyai, the game changes. He is looking for a traitor; she is living a lie. In a court where one wrong word means execution, Ruo Han must decide: will she restore the Roman glory of the Blackwood name, or will her heart betray the disguise that keeps her alive

The Year is 1453, The Byzantine Empire is on it's knees. The Emperor has called all of his people including those under Ottoman rule to escape to the sea and go west. Soon a fleet formed of Greek people fleeing their homeland and soon enough they disappear, vanished into thin air... They end up in another universe on a continent that is devoid of people and they claim it as a new homeland, Elysium named after the Elysian Fields also known as the "Isles of the Blessed" But what will the future of the Empire hold...