II / Book I

Characters
Spectre of Converging Ambitions

The characters who appear in Spectre of Converging Ambitions, drawn from the shared cast of the full series.

Alexios I Komnenos

The Byzantine emperor whose reign frames the opening movement of the six-volume cycle.

Alexios’s formidable mother and a central force within the Komnenian family and imperial court.

Two hundred fallen immortals who entered human history and never escaped its consequences.

Emperors, courtiers, soldiers and families whose finite lives give supernatural history its human consequence.