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793CE, This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians Terrifying the people most woefully. These were immense sheets of light running through the air and whirl winds and fiery dragons flying across the firmament. Thesis tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine; and not long after on the sixth day […]
For 72 years, since the Viking raid on Lindisfarne, Northmen have ravaged the coasts of Britain. But this is no raid. It’s the great heathen army. They come seeking farmland, driven from Scandinavia by crop failures and political instability. They are not here for treasure; they are here to found a nation. This series is […]
The empire, long divided, must unite. Long united, must divide. Thus, it has ever been. Three strangers stand in a peach garden, preparing to do something that will echo throughout history. In their culture, family is everything. But in these times, when blood turns against blood, they swear an oath to treat each other as […]
200 AD Cao Cao and Yuan Shao Old friends were at war With Yuan controlling territory north of the Yellow River and Cao controlling land in the South Conflict had become inevitable The river is crucial to both men’s designs If Yuan can take Cao’s capital and capture the Emperor, northern China will be his […]
If you go to Florence and travel east until you climb the high hills that approach the Adriatic You will find, buried in the desolate and barren rises, a grand palace. One to rival anything in Italy. And around that palace you’ll find a town with a mighty cathedral and an ancient university. And you […]
The traders of Morocco speak of a great Kingdom to the south. To journey there is treacherous: 70 days across the dune seas of the Sahara with little water between oasis towns. Those who reach it find a strange land, dry like the seashore, inhabited by half converted people who know the words of the […]
In 1337 Mansa Musa the most powerful King in Mali’s history is dead He leaves behind an empire that covers a half a million square miles He leaves a university in Timbuktu that will soon have 25,000 students and the largest collection of books Africa has seen since the Library of Alexandria But more than […]
It’s 1312. As Abubakari II’s great fleet sails west into the Atlantic, one man watches them Disappear into the sunset. This vizier will serve as regent for the great explorer king managing the state while his master sails the ocean that encircles the earth and when the great king fails to return, this regent will […]
1465…The Mali Empire is overextended, barely able to garrison its territory, and writhen by internal power struggles. Sensing weakness, a new player emerges. The sorcerer king Sunni Ali, a charismatic leader and a military genius; he is set on bringing the disorganized northern fringe of the Mali Empire, its profitable Trans-Saharan trading centers, under the […]
The Hundred Years War: the pageants and tournaments of chivalry; knights in burnished armor; The English archer destroying the flower of French chivalry; the great battles of Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt. Or just a sign of the brutality of the Middle Ages. Senseless warfone destruction; the death of thousands in the mud of France for […]