The Credits
Debts & Thanks
Created by
Matthew Riley
Lover of all things Byzantium. Design, writing, code direction, and a stubborn affection for the Roman world of the east — inspired, first and always, by Anna Komnene.
ΕΙΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΝ · In Memoriam
Keith Riley
For my brother Keith, dearly missed. This chronicle is dedicated to his memory.
Within the chronicle, the secretary Kyriakos is for him.
Αἰωνία ἡ μνήμη.
Inspired by
Fighting Fantasy
With proper thanks to Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone, and the whole Fighting Fantasy gamebook series — for the branching-choice mechanic that is the spine of this chronicle, and for an enormous amount of fun in my teenage years. Turn to section 400 and ride east.
ΕΞΑΙΡΕΤΟΣ ΧΑΡΙΣ · With Special Gratitude
Anna Komnene & The Alexiad
☧ 1083 — c. 1153 · Porphyrogennete · Historian of the Romans
To the porphyrogennete princess who, in her widowhood at the Kecharitomene convent on the western slope of the Fourth Hill, set down the life of her father Alexios in fifteen books of high Atticising Greek — and to the boy who first opened her Alexiad in a charity-shop Penguin and discovered, to his astonishment, that Romans were still alive in the Middle Ages.
The Alexiad is the only full-length narrative history we possess from a Byzantine woman, and one of the very few book-length histories written by any woman anywhere in the medieval world. This game is, in a quiet way, a long letter of thanks to her. The door she held open is the door I walked through.
Built with
Lovable
This chronicle was built end-to-end on Lovable. All thanks and proper credit to Lovable and its copyright holders for the platform that made this project possible.