Rosmer CreativeThe world surrounding the hidden chronicle.
A master atlas for the full series, reduced within each book to the cities, regions and historical environments relevant to that volume.
The Byzantine Empire
The political and cultural center of the series, seen at different moments across the Crusading era.
Connected to Books I and IIIOpen record ↗City / Convergence02Constantinople
The imperial capital changes across the century while remaining the series’ great point of convergence.
Connected to Books I, II and VIOpen record ↗Latin Christendom / c. 109503Catholic Europe
A fractured world of kingdoms, nobles, bishops and reforming papal authority from which the First Crusade will emerge.
The western political horizon of Book IOpen record ↗Courts & Caliphates / c. 109504The Islamic World
Seljuk powers, Fatimid Egypt and competing cities and dynasties shape the eastern world beyond the Byzantine frontier.
The wider eastern setting of Book IOpen record ↗France / 109505Clermont
The city of Pope Urban II’s council and call to crusade, where a gathering in France alters the direction of Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
A principal location in Book IOpen record ↗Papal Rome / c. 109506The Vatican — Rome
The papal world of medieval Rome, centered on Old St. Peter’s centuries before the modern basilica and Vatican City.
The Latin Church at the opening of Book IOpen record ↗Anatolia / 109707Nicaea
The Seljuk capital besieged by the Crusader armies and recovered for Byzantium at the opening of the Anatolian campaign.
A principal location in Book IIOpen record ↗Anatolia / 109708Dorylaeum
The site of the Crusaders’ decisive early battle against the forces of Kilij Arslan during the crossing of Anatolia.
A principal location in Book IIOpen record ↗Northern Syria / Crusader State09Antioch
The great fortified city becomes both a prize of the First Crusade and a contested principality afterward.
Connected to Books II and IIIOpen record ↗Upper Mesopotamia / Crusader State10Edessa
The first Crusader state, founded east of the main route to Jerusalem and deeply connected to the region’s Armenian population.
Connected to Books II and IIIOpen record ↗Sacred City / Conquest11Jerusalem
Sacred to three faiths, Jerusalem changes political hands and meaning across the opening Crusading era.
Connected to Books II and IIIOpen record ↗Syria / Emirate12Damascus
A major Syrian city and independent Muslim power confronting the altered political landscape created by the Crusader states.
A principal location in Book IIIOpen record ↗Egypt / Caliphate13Cairo & Fatimid Egypt
The Fatimid Caliphate remains a great regional power, contesting Palestine and the southern frontier of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem.
A principal regional power in Book IIIOpen record ↗Maritime Republic / 120214Venice
The naval and commercial republic that builds the Fourth Crusade’s fleet and redirects its course under Doge Enrico Dandolo.
The point of departure for Book VIOpen record ↗Adriatic City / 120215Zara
The Christian Adriatic city attacked by the Crusader-Venetian host after it cannot meet the cost of its fleet.
The first diversion of the Fourth Crusade in Book VIOpen record ↗Harbor Defenses / 1203–120416The Golden Horn
Constantinople’s protected harbor, defended by its great chain and sea walls before becoming the decisive approach of the Venetian assault.
The military threshold of Book VIOpen record ↗