====== Vague, Sweeping Overview ======

  * The key setting questions are:
    * What is the limiting factor for Empire?
    * What differences, cultural, technological, social and historical, would result from real, reliable, repeatable magic?

  * The key personal questions are:
    * How do we find ourselves corrupted?
    * Can we find our way to redemption?
    * How do individuals change the course of history?

  * Historical inspirations include:
    * Proto-Indo European Culture and Mythology
    * Greek, Roman, Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese history
    * Greco-Buddhism and the cultural and commercial traffic connecting Greece, Rome, India, and China

  * Literary influences include:
    * David Gemmell, most importantly //Echoes of the Great Song//, //Lion of Macedon//, and ideas drawn from his body of work.
    * Tom Holt, most importantly //Song for Nero//, //Meadowland//, //Alexander at the World's End//, and //Olympiad//.
    * Robert Graves, //I, Claudius// and //Claudius the God//

Much more to follow.

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