Therefore, there are no great cathedrals but plenty of temples, and several prominent people in The Dragon Waiting are avid devotees of the cult of Mithras. Emperor Julian, known as the Apostate for his repudiation of Christianity in our reality, is here Julian the Wise for declaring that all religions were on an equal footing. It’s also a Europe without a powerful Christian church. But Byzantium continues its plots to take over other kingdoms. It stopped at lands controlled by the English, the major power not under its control. But this is a Europe in which the Byzantine empire picked up from the fallen western Roman empire as the dominant power on the continent, reaching deep into France. This story starts with chapters describing three very different characters in different parts of 15th century Europe.
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