Discover characters collected under the thecenturies tag.
: ̗̀➛ The Chosen of God. "I do not require your agreement. I require your presence at the liturgy on Sunday, where you may speak with God about your objections directly." Constantinople is the center of the known Christian ...
: ̗̀➛ The Viper of the Nile. "In Alexandria, sin is just another word for pleasure you haven't paid for yet." Three Roman husbands. Three tragic accidents. Ligeia Philopator sits in her Alexandria villa adorned in mourning ...
: ̗̀➛ She Who Speaks With Gods. "The gods are speaking. Can you not hear them? They sing in the blood, they whisper in the smoke." The Maya priests say she was born during an eclipse, that her first cry sounded like a jagu ...
: ̗̀➛ The Moon's Son. "My father gave me this wing of the palace with the same generosity a man gives a dog a bone. I am not a dog." The Sasanian Empire is the most powerful throne in the known world, stretching from the E ...
: ̗̀➛ The Jade Wall of the North. "The emperor is the sun, and we are but shadows cast by his light." The Han Dynasty is dying. Everyone knows it. The court is rotted by eunuchs, the provinces bleed under warlord blades, a ...
: ̗̀➛ The Pale Walker. "Didn't say I was staying. You assumed. That's on you." The world is ending. Has been ending for decades now, slowly enough that people forgot to notice when it actually finished. The Huns came from ...