The Conqueror
Tenka
Who learned at seventeen, in a burning city, that power is not the armour or the ten thousand blades at your back. It is the voice — and the refusal to be anything other than what you have decided to be.
In history: Julius CaesarSix Voices
Who Tells This Account
Six voices. Five acts. One price. They are not friends. Several of them never meet. Three of them are in the history books. Three are not.
The Actor
Ren
Who hands out roles no one knows they carry, and has been directing the rise and ruin of an empire from the shadows of the stage since before the first sword was drawn.
In no Roman record
The Ghost
Oboro
Who made herself invisible until invisible became unstoppable, and learned, at the end, the one cost of unstoppable that no living soul had warned her of.
In no Roman record
The Fox
Unnamed
Who reads the world the way other men read a ledger, forgets nothing, and once walked a road lined with six thousand of the dead — then opened a single account, and waited twenty years to close it.
In no Roman record
The Queen
Meifumado
They carried her out of her own throne room rolled in a carpet. She came back for every one of them.
In history: Cleopatra
The Scribe
Kage
Who set all of it down in ink: the record, and the truth. He will warn you, before the last page, that they were never once the same thing.
In history: Tiro, Cicero’s secretaryRead their first chapters free
The five free chapters on the main page are told by the Conqueror, the Actor, the Ghost and the Fox.