Note 1: Most of the story will take place in 15th century Europe.
Note 2: This a historical fantasy work implements low fantasy elements in the real world, therefore, it is not a 100% realistic work.
Note 3: Gate's work and its characters belong to Yanai, other characters appearing in this work are fictional and any resemblance to reality is mere coincidence...
Prologue
Screams, shouts and swords, the smell of blood and gunpowder, the last troops of the Roman army were resisting the Turkish attack with vehemence, even so, they were outnumbered even with the Christian help that had come from the West.
Constantinople had resisted 1000 years after the fall of the western part of the empire, the last vestiges of that nation that dominated the old world was this city located on the Bosporus.
The Romans were already in decline for centuries, but they never thought that at some point they would reach this point, there was always the hope of regaining the glory of the past, but now that had become a mere fantasy.
Emperor Constantine XI had joined his men to defend the city, even if his life perished in doing so, even so, the troops of Sultan Mehmed II continued to advance, motivated by the three days of plunder that their leader had promised.
The hours passed, the city little by little began to weaken, the Christians who had come to help began to fall prey to fatigue while the Roman and militia forces were beaten in combat before the superior number of Turks.
The barbarism was unleashed and only a few came to ask for help to heaven, in front of the Basilica of St. Sophia, thousands of parishioners began to pray to heaven in search of an answer, spent many minutes waiting for an answer.
After almost an hour of supplications, tortures and cries, in front of them a structure began to materialize, a structure that reminded of classical architecture, architecture that was beginning to be rescued in Italy itself.
Made of marble and several meters long and high, it ended up appearing near the Basilica, no one could understand what was happening until a kind of portal began to appear from what appeared to be a kind of Gate.
No one understood what happened, but many people approached it while others moved away, several soldiers approached brandishing their swords in anticipation of the unknown while others were not so hostile waiting.
The doubts were cleared until the first individual appeared, a tall and corpulent man who was accompanied by a retinue of soldiers, all with clothing reminiscent of the ancient empire in its last century before the collapse in the West.
This man without a word raised his sword and shouted to the sky "The sons of Mars have returned, conquer them!" before all hell broke loose in the city.
A new era had just begun, completely changing the fate of the old world.
The Byzantines are referred to as Romans because historically they were so, the term Byzantine was coined by historians later on.
I'm not very good at writing dialogues so I'll rather focus on the narrative than trying to make natural dialogues that will end up being horrible.