Gothic Revival, But Roman

In 1427, the Byzantine Empire, nearly reduced to the mere mayor of Constantinople, continued to struggle under the threat of the Ottomans.

The Empire of Trebizond could only survive through marriage and the mercy of the Crescentists.

The fall of Rome was imminent.

But far away on the northern shores of the Black Sea, no one noticed that the remnant of the empire on the Black Sea, the last kingdom of the Goths - the Principality of Theodore, was in the calm before the storm.

No one would have imagined that here would emerge the greatest restorer of the Roman Empire.

Until many years later... "By the grace of God, the Emperor of the Roman Empire, the glorious Basileus, the Lord of Tauris and Trebizond, the Holy Sea