In north India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled wicked. Guided or possessed by an cleverness from beyond period, with new weaponry, outdated treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the complete Earth. Just three factors stand between the Malwa and their strategy of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with eyesight; and a guy named Belisarius, the best commander Earth offers ever know . .