He speaks of a planned trading expedition past the Pillars of Heracles. Nearly 400 years ago the Komnenian Restoration under his hand brought the Empire back from the brink of destruction.

The last you find in the most unexpected place - a small hidden cache, containing among other things a slim book written in the hand of Alexios Komnenos himself. You seek the experience of ancient generals, the ingenuity of natural philosophers, the wisdom of past emperors. The Imperial Library is ransacked on your order, ancient tomes opened and scrolls unwound from their cases. You cannot raise mercenaries enough to defeat an assault on Constantinople, let alone drive the Turks from Hellas itself. The present offers no hope of deliverance - the coffers of the Empire are nearly empty. You and your brother Konstantinos, who will God-willing be Emperor after you, have searched for some means by which to survive the coming storm. You are Ioannes VIII Palaiologos, and you can feel in your bones that should you live another decade you will be called the Last Emperor of the Romans. The Emperor of the Hellenes, once master of the world, now master of fewer souls than minor duchies in the West. Thrace controlled by the Turks, their domain visible from the very walls of Constantinople! The great city herself, once envy of all the world, now plays host to vast fields within the curtain of the Theodosian fortifications. Now what remained? Lip service from the Morea and Athenians, who lack independence only because of their lack of interest. The loss of the Aegean islands, the fracturing of the Empire that only ended with the entry of Michael Palaiologos into the recaptured Constantinople in 1261 - these were blows which rendered Byzantium unable to resist the ascension of the Ottoman Turks. What of that empire, that great state that once stretched from one end of the Mediterranean to the other? The disaster at Manzikert had begun her decline, but the deathblow of the treacherous crusaders in 1204 made current events all but certain. Their hungry eyes shall soon turn once again to the shattered remains of Byzantium. The crowns of Hungary and Poland have once again been severed from each other with his demise - the hope of the Turks being pushed from the Balkans has come to naught. The King of Hungary is dead, and with that the main opposition to Ottoman expansion has been left to a four year-old child. The hated Turks of the House of Osman have won a great victory at Varna over the combined Christian forces of Hungary and Wallachia. The last hope of the Romans has been crushed.

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