Thomas Harlan (born 1964 in Tucson) is the author of the OATH OF EMPIRE fantasy series, as well as being an internationally-known game designer. He lives in Salem, Oregon. You can learn more at his 
THE OATH OF EMPIRE by Thomas Harlan
The Oath of Empire is a series of four books, namely The Shadow of Ararat, The Gate of Fire, The Storm of Heaven, and The Dark Lord, which is at once a fantasy and an alternate history of the Western and Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empires, and which is set in the early 7th Century. The alternate history part pre-supposes that Christianity never gained much of a foothold in the Empire, and Constantine was only a rebel, never Emperor,
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