III / Book III

Setting
Silhouetted Adversaries

The locations and historical environments relevant to Silhouetted Adversaries, drawn from the master series atlas.

The Byzantine Empire

The empire confronts a transformed eastern frontier as newly founded Crusader states complicate its claims, alliances and rivalries.

Now the center of a new Crusader principality, Antioch sits between Byzantine claims, Armenian communities and the powers of northern Syria.

Edessa becomes a vulnerable northern county whose Latin rulers depend on a complex Armenian and Syrian frontier.

The sacred city is recast as the capital of a new Latin kingdom amid Muslim, Jewish and Eastern Christian worlds.

A major Syrian city and independent Muslim power confronting the altered political landscape created by the Crusader states.

The Fatimid Caliphate remains a great regional power, contesting Palestine and the southern frontier of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem.