Chapter 1 — 1453: Revival of Byzantium

First, let me thank you guys for stepping in and read my novel, whether you like it or not it is a great encouragement for me as this is the very first novel that I wrote.

As everyone know 2020 has been a terrible year, devastating things happened and everyone in the globe is put under a lock down for months. It just feels like everything has slowed down, all daily life routines and activities are put to a stop, and all plans are forced to change.

It affected me as well, I am supposed to be enlisted into the army but it got postponed until the end of September, while my plan for travelling overseas to North Korea, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy are also put to an abrupt stop.

So, during the four months of lock down, I decided to not put my time in waste and developed an interest in reading books, especially Antiquity and Medieval history books. Through this four months of reading, I developed an enormous interest in the Roman Civilisation and her history, and so while reading, I began to wonder what would have happened if an alternate line of history took place, like in this case, East Roman Empire, or Byzantium, did not fall in 1453, but continued to survive?

The thought of it became stronger after I wandered across this website and found out that I can share my work online, I grabbed my pen and started brainstorming.

And so, I created this novel, I began hours after hours of research to make it more ‘historically accurate’ like the events, the people, the geographical location etc. I must admit that having the ideas is one thing but putting it in words is another thing. I understand my boundaries also, I have never written anything like this before. I bet that my dear English Literature teacher would have rolled on floor laughing if she reads my work.

Thanks for listening to me. If you have any corrections or ideas, or you want yourself as a character in this novel, please put it in the comments. I will be constantly updating the novel till it finish perhaps next year, so please place it in your library to give me more motivation along the way, thanks! (*≧∀≦*)

With that…let us take the time machine to go back before the Siege of Constantinople takes place.