Series: Oath of Empire
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0312865430
Pages: 510 pages
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 5
Volume: 1
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0312865430
Pages: 510 pages
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
Votes: 5
Description: In what would be A.D. 600 in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to the aid of the Emperor of the East, the Augustus Heraclius, to lift the siege of Constantinople and carry a great war to the very doorstep of the Shahanshah of Persia. It is a war that will be fought with armies both conventional and magical, with bright swords and the darkest necromantic sorceries.
Against this richly detailed canvas of alternate history and military strategy, novelist Thomas Harlan sets the fantastically intricate and moving stories of four people.
Dwyrin MacDonald, a young Hibernian, is a scholarship student at a school of sorcery in Upper Egypt until he runs afoul of powerful political interests and is sent off half-trained to the Legions.
His teacher, the Egyptian sorcerer Ahmet, learns of this expedient betrayal of his student. He abandons his post and his vows, and undertakes to follow Dwyrin and aid him—but their paths diverge, and Ahmet is drawn into service with the beautiful and powerful Silk Empress, the Queen of Palmyra.
Thyatis Julia Clodia is a young Roman centurion, extensively trained by her patron in the arts of covert warfare. She and her team will be sent deep into Persian territory to foment rebellion in the occupied cities and countryside, and smooth the path for Galen's Legions.
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