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[i]"And, like a purple phoenix, the Empire of the Romans rose from the ashes..."[/i]
[color=darkgray]—Edward Gibbon, excerpt from [i]The Revival of the Roman State[/i][/color]
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The year is 1814, and the Byzantine Empire flourishes. Recovered from the brink of destruction, the Empire has expanded to become the preeminent colonial power in Europe. It's holdings stretch from the fertile floodplains of the Nile to the lucrative spice islands of the far east, and represent the greatest territorial extent the Empire has ever achieved. Constantinople is counted the richest city in the world, and the Imperial [i]tagmata[/i] reach numbers not seen since Trajan ruled. 

But all is not well in Byzantium. The British, buoyed by their victory over the Franks in the hundred years war, have established a colonial empire of their own in the New World. Their navy challenges Byzantine supremacy at sea, threatening to break centuries of Roman dominance in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, the so-called Holy Roman Empire, at the encouragement of the Pope in Paris, seeks to reclaim its Italian territories; most especially the ancient city of Rome. Even more worrying are the rumors of the eastern kingdoms of Hungary and Galicia pledging their aid against Byzantium in this endeavor.

Combined with the ever-present threat of insurrection, the Byzantine Empire faces enemies from within and without. You, a gentleman-officer of the Imperial Dragoons, may soon find yourself waging a war for the Empire's very survival.

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Hello everyone. As you may have surmised, the premise of this RP is a sort of "what-if" scenario, where the Byzantine Empire never fell and instead became a colonial power, along with other fun history-bending changes. The RP I have in my head is a low-fantasy world, where magic does exist but in scarce quantity, and its usage is slowly being encroached upon by new advances in science. If this interest check succeeds, I'll do a large and very in-detail lore write-up, but for now to sum up: alternate-history world in the Napoleonic era, with a little magic.

Gameplay will focus around a single unit of Imperial Dragoons, following their campaigns across Europe against the coalition powers (Britain, the HRE, Hungary, Galicia, etc). There will be skirmishes, ambushes, grand battles, intrigue, and all the sorts of fun you may expect from a war in this era, along with some fantasy elements sprinkled in for good measure. You'll start, along with your fellow RPers, as either an enlisted man or officer, and naturally the party will gradually work itself up to higher ranks and responsibilities as the RP progresses. I will be driving the major events from the behind-the-scenes, though of course I'll be taking into account the party's actions as well as player input. 

That's about it for now. Since the RP will be focused primarily on a single unit of Dragoons, I'm looking for 4-6 people to show interest.



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