• The key setting questions are:
  • What is the limiting factor for Empire?
  • What differences, cultural, technological, social and historical, would result from real, reliable, repeatable magic?

• The key personal questions are:
  • How do we find ourselves corrupted?
  • Can we find our way to redemption?
  • How do individuals change the course of history?

• Historical inspirations include:
  • Proto-Indo European Culture and Mythology
  • Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese history
  • Greco-Buddhism and the cultural and commercial traffic connecting Greece, Rome, India, and China

• Literary influences include:
  • David Gemmell, most importantly Echoes of the Great Song, Lion of Macedon, and ideas drawn from his body of work.
  • Tom Holt, most importantly Song for Nero, Meadowland, Alexander at the World's End, and Olympiad.
  • Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God

Much more to follow.

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