Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not
exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the
Malwa Empire: harnassing the vast manpower of the Indian
subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the
periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in
the 6th century could stand against Link's evil.
Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, has come back to
halt evil's progress. Aide has no power but that of truth,
but truth is the only power that could move the greatest
general of the age, Belisarius.
With his sword, his paladins, and his genius, Belisarius
has turned the armies of Byzantium into a weapon capable
of blunting the first assault of the Malwa hordes. Now,
supported by allies from all the world yet free,
Belisarius, with his wife and co-commander Antonia, faces
overwhelming Malwa numbers in a ring that tightens about
them.
There is no room for maneuver and no safety in defeat. The
armies of Good and Evil gathered on the fertile plains of
Mesopotamia will decide the fate of the world—