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By Thomas Harlan
In what will be A.D. six hundred in our historical past, the Roman Empire nonetheless stands, supported by means of the dual pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to assistance from the Emperor of the East, the Augustus Heraclius, to boost the siege of Constantinople and hold an excellent battle to the very doorstep of the Shahanshah of Persia. it's a battle that would be fought with armies either traditional and magical, with vivid swords and the darkest necromantic sorceries.
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After eating, they sat for a bit, the elder Maxian whittling at a small figurine of Bast with a curved eastern blade. Behind them, their Gothic bodyguards sat silently in the shadow of the trees, their fair hair bound in mountain flowers that they had gathered from the margin of the road. The long buttery-yellow slats of sunlight cutting through the trees gleamed from their fish-scale armor. The servants retired to the pack mules and lay down in the sun, broad straw hats shading their faces as they took a quick nap.
Dwyrin stared in horror at the apparition. His mind refused to work. The figure gestured, its robes making a soft whispering sound. Two shorter forms emerged from the darkness beyond it: squat manlike things, faceless and dark. Their bodies were ebony and patterned with whorls and lines. They grasped Dwyrin by his arms and lifted him silently from his bed. Dwyrin, frozen with fear, could not cry out as they carried him, led by the tall crane-headed figure, out of the dormitory. In the early dawn the compound of the school was quiet.
The woman's face leaned close to the Persian's, blood trailing down from the cut on her scalp. She smiled, all white teeth in the dim light of the little room. Her fingers dug into his thick dark hair and pulled his head back. "No man could capture Vologases the Persian," she whispered, "and none did. " A sense of deep contentment filled Thyatis as she stared down at the Persian agent. Nikos' broad hands were busy, binding the Easterner's wrists behind his back. She smoothed her hair back and smiled again.