The Sun and Moon Shine Together: The Eastern Roman and Ming Western Empires

In 1374, the Eastern Roman Empire was summoned to the capital, and the fates of the double-headed eagle and the red dragon became intertwined.

This is an alternate world’s Old Continent. Here, although the Ming homeland fell in 1644, the “Western Ming” was reborn in the Levant under Rome’s protection. For centuries, the two empires ignored the West’s steam-powered roar with ancient arrogance, until a crushing defeat in 1888 finally jolted Rome and the Ming awake in a pool of blood.

Having learned a bitter lesson, they began reshaping the world with an unstoppable tide of steel and internal combustion engines. From rising anew from the flames of the “Glorious War” in 1919 to the Western Ming Empire’s expeditionary forces sweeping across the East Asian battlefield in 1945, a new bipolar age had arrived.

Then came “Winter Thunder,” which shocked the world in 1993. The iron cavalry of the Roman Empire trampled the ruins of a continent in turmoil, forcibly restoring imperial order atop the shattered remnants of the Old World.

This is not a regret of history, but the rebirth of civilization. Witness how the red dragon and the double-headed eagle overcome the bonds of a millennium, and, amid the clash of steel, faith, and political intrigue, reshape this magnificent world.