You wake in a strange room.

Your clothes are foreign and the walls are covered in objects from a different world.

You don't know where or when you are, or if you're still dreaming.

There are footsteps in the hall.

Jumping up, you race out of the room and into the streets.

You have just entered the Twilight Histories.

Hi, I'm Jordan Harbor.

Thank you for tuning in to the Twilight Histories.

If you're new to the Twilight Histories, you'll probably find the concept a little bit different than anything else out there. In these shows, you are the main character, like in a role-playing campaign. Think of this as the first-person shooter of all podcasts. Each show, you'll explore a different world in the multiverse, an Egypt that never fell, a Carthaginian colony on Mars. We'll begin today

with a short mini-show to wet your appetite before launching into the main feast. Enjoy. Your galley rose up the tiber.

You can see the suburbs of Rome. Poor farmers stand among the ancient crumbling edifices,

watching your royal galley with a look of wonder on their faces, or at least you think it's wonder.

You look at Jata and try to decipher his thoughts.

He seems curious, but also confused.

What are these ruins?

He says to the Arab merchant who stands next to him.

Zis Rome, your majesty, the Arab says.

This is Rome? I thought Rome was a great city.

It once great, your majesty. It was center of an empire.

And you tell me this is the greatest city in these lands?

It is the seat of the Pope.

Jutta brushes this information away.

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