Epilogue Book 1 (Patreon)

Authors note, there will be 2 chapters today

            Gandore told Filkith, “We need to skip ahead a year.”

            “Why?”

            “Because it takes time for everyone to travel and to build the factories that are about to change the world.”

            “Travel?”

            “The Paulsland Kingsminister is going to need nearly a year to bring his armies and steam weapons to the gold fields of Roman Africa. Currently, the Merchant Guild is bringing Roman Naval experts to help them build a fleet to rid them of the Cubans that have blocked their southern trade. The Romans are having to move a hundred and fifty thousand legionnaires to the northwest of their empire to deal with the Cubans, who are both raiding their shores and taking the Island of Britannia. As for Parthian, their western border with Rome has stabilized, at least until Rome gets its reinforcements, but the war on their Eastern border is heating up as both sides probe each other.”

            “None of that matters. You know as well as I that species with speech use sticks to fight each other all the time. It doesn’t change their technological ability.”

            “In one more year, Paulsland will finish secretly building their first steam engines and begin building their first factory powered by steam. The goal of that factory is to make both locomotives and steam shovels. In a year, the Roman Emperor’s son will finally meet up with his father, and the reality of steam weapons will shock the Roman world. By that time rumors of the power of Paulsland’s new weapon will reach most of the nations on the Erythraean sea, and new interest in Paulsland will emerge.”

            “It appears a lot will change in one year.”



Authors note-So a few weeks ago I realized that everything I was writting ended up with the next part of the story happening in a year, hence the abrupt end to book 1. That said because of where book 1 is ending I felt the need for an epilogue. In a few minutes I will post chapter 1 of book 2, of part 2. I will still write a prolouge for book 2, but since prolouges tend to be summeries of the previous book I wont write that for a while.

Note the next chapter will make it really clear in this timeline the steam weapons were the dawn of the steam age. The rest of the steam age is going to be built on the back of the steam weapons. Also book 2 should allow me to write a Shimbir chapter that I have planned to write since the outline of the book series as a whole.

Within the next three weeks I will publish book 9. I am way behind on that due to well everything. I have the words edited, but I still need to get a cover, and make sure the maps are accurate for the chapters. So that means I could publish tomorrow, or in three weeks depending on my schedual. The reason why I say three weeks is because my wife will be going out of town as she does some training for her job for a week, although I am sure my sweet wife will be calling me and talking with me for a couple of hours each day. Its going to be like we are dating again (we had a bit of a long distance relationship).