When his predecessor died without an heir, Valens jumped from leading the palace guard to the entire Rhatian Empire, or what was left of it. When an ambitious general bested him in a bloody civil war, however, his reign was cut short. Blinded and cast out to the Empire's borderlands, he struggled...

For Yamamoto Yuya, fantasy stories are about easy fulfillment. A brilliant but lazy high school student, he likes a story where someone unassuming like him rises to a call to adventure, saving the world, getting the girl, and making it look easy every step of the way. He will not live such a stor...

History turns on the smallest of things, and the Battle of Sekigahara was no small thing. A few traitors instead remain loyal, a few brave men instead cower, and Tokugawa Ieyasu never becomes Shogun. No isolationism, no end to ties with Portugal, and the Edo Period becomes Japan's Colonial Period...