So, before I start reviewing this novel and explaining as to why I am giving it 5 stars, I want to say that Author should change the name of this novel to Revival of Eastern Roman Empire/Roman Empire, using the name some idiot thought to be romantic shouldn't be allowed. now, with ranting out of the way, let's move on to the review itself. Writing Quality - it isn't superb per-say, but, it only has few occasional mistakes and as such deserves at least 4.5 stars. Stability of Updates - 5 stars, because looking at it, it doesn't seem like he missed a day without a reason(such as being in the army, duh) Story Development - one of the things I really love in this novel is that it doesn't jump you straight into the action, it introduces characters left and right without making you feel tired and overwhelmed with all the Greek or Turkish names. fight scenes aren't forced and they are quite nicely introduced into the play. as such story development of this novel gets 5 stars. Character Design - now, this is the major thing that you should love in this novel if you love history... and that is characters... almost every character in this novel is someone you can google and learn more about. the only mistake I have seen so far in 90 chapters is Vladislav II Dracula, and it isn't that big of a mistake, just delete 'Dracula' in that name and everything is fine. Main Character is a likeable character and Side characters are actually important and 'alive', with their distinct personalities. World background - now this one is tough to rate because there are some amazing details that Author has implemented in his story, but there are some absurd things as well... like there being smoking pipes in the 15th century... as such I am giving the world background solid 4.8(there are other mistakes as well apart from smoking pipes, that's why it gets 4.8) Finally, the novel itself according to these criteriums gets... 4.825 Stars :P but Webnovel says it's 4.8... (don't trust it)
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Byzantine Empire is how they referred to themselves, as it was basically ruled by Greeks and not Romans. they considered themselves to be inheritors of the Roman empire after the fall of Rome. Byzantium is the original name of the city before it was renamed to Constantinople after the conversation of emperor Constantine to Christianity.
They considered themselves as the Roman empire or atleast eastern roman empire. The classification of the Byzantine empire was established way after their fall.
Byzantium as a term didn't exist in those times. It was only implemented by the historians in order to distinguish western Roman empire from their eastern counterpart. So it is actually wrong to refer to them as Byzantines as this is an imaginary term. They were Romans through and through. The only reason it is acceptable because it can get confusing when you refer those two Roman empires.
I rarely found such a big positive review for a actual good novel, thanks dude.
The world background thing is the main negative thing about this novel. Like where the heck did the varangians come from? By the 12th century pretty much the entirety of the Nordic region became catholic. So instead of goin to the golden horn, the Nordics focused more on developing their home region and stopped being vikings. Also, in one of the chapters it mentions eating tomatoes and in another it mentions wating tuna. Tomatoes are from the Americas and were initially considered poisonous, and I am pretty sure they don't have tunas in the Mediterranean. There are also other similar issues. So I will give this novel 4 out of 5 stars for the world background. Otherwise the novel is pretty good and agree with OP.
The Varangian guard served from the 10th to 14th century after the sack of Constantinople by the fourth crusade though their ranks were by that point primarily composed by anglo saxons
