KINGS OF THE REPUBLIC

WHAT IS IT?

This five book series is a high-fantasy political drama in a genre that I’m calling ‘historical fantasy fiction.’

It is:

I) Ancient Rome with dragons and magic, or

II) A Song of Ice and Fire meets Ancient Rome.

Blurb:

Kings are born and then they die. Empires rise and then they fall. Gods are revered and are then admonished. The great deeds of greater men change the world, are relegated to the pages of history, are eventually forgotten. That which remains constant, that which stands still as the world changes around her, is Galia.  

For seven-hundred years the nation-state of Galia has spread her influence across the known world, welcoming powerful empires and stubborn nations into her fold like a caring mother who asks only in return total obedience and uttmost reverence to her absolute rule. She now stands at the height of her power, the Republic which rules her is at the peak of its dominion, and the politicians who make up her august body of leaders fashion themselves as kings amongst men. 

But peace, prosperity, and unchecked authority, can only last for so long...  

The emergence of an ancient race from the age of gods threatens to throw Galia and her Republic into disarray. Faced with her first real threat in generations, if Galia is to defeat this ancient foe once and for all and confirm her position as the most powerful nation in the world, the senators and generals who govern her will need to defeat their enemies at home, secure power and influence for themselves abroad, and pray that the legends of the old times, when gods walked the earth with men, don’t return. 

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WHAT ARE THIS SERIES’ INFLUENCES?

I’m writing this series in the stylings of an historical fiction, treating the world and its history as real. For this reason, I’ve chosen to write it from the POV’s of multiple characters, told across a period of history rather than a single event. The first book takes place over four years, as does the second, while the entire series will be as many of fifty. In this way, Galia is the main character, and the other characters are used to tell her story.

With that in mind, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is a big influence on this series. The POV style that he uses through the series is how I’ve chosen to tell this story. And his approach to characters also, real people who are neither good nor bad, protagonist nor antagonist, and who make decisions based on what they need at the time rather than what the story needs, for better or worse. Hopefully, my characters are of a similar moral complexity.

Another huge influence on this series is The Masters of Rome by Colleen Mcllough, an epic historical fiction series set in Ancient Rome from 110BC-27BC. Historically accurate to a fault, this sweeping body of work, which contains seven massive novels, deftly tracks the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Empire. Told from the perspectives of dozens of historical characters, all of whom exist in that same moral grey zone as ASOIAF’s, this series is fantastic. The historical elements of this series, and even some events, have influenced my series greatly.