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On April 4th 2012, I came across an online empire building game entitled “Uprising Empires” where you had to choose from four civilizations.  The Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Mongol Empire, naturally I choose the Mongol Empire due to the fact that the my field of work involves working with East Asian Studies.  It got me thinking about writing a historical fiction novel having to do with a fierce warrior from the steppes that meets a beautiful woman from the Byzantine Empire, who flees from an arranged marriage because she prefers a life of swordplay and adventure over a chauvinistic husband who desires money and power more than anything.

I plan to write a trilogy (or maybe not, let’s see where the story goes) filled with hot chicks, bloody gore, bloody battles and brawls, comical lines and plenty of adventure.  This particular series will leave you asking for more.

I plan to write the Mongol and the Maiden as the first installment in a series of novels.

Story

The main character of the story as I stated earlier is a Mongol warrior by the name of Batzorig (Meaning Strong Courage http://www.mongolia-travel-guide.com/mongolian-names.html) who has no clan of his own, yet serves the mongol horde in any method they deem fit.  He is sent by the horde to negotiate a treaty with the Byzantine Empire.  Upon arriving within Constantinople, he gets captured by a group of knights (or cataphracts) who serve a corrupt nobleman, bent on overthrowing emperor Michael VIII and expanding the Byzantine Empire by waging war on the Mongols and nearby Arabic kingdoms.  He is able to escape with the help of Aurelia, the fiancé of the man who captured him. 

She does so because she is a very free spirited woman, who desires a life of adventure and fighting.  Despite her lack of knowledge beyond what he calls “the softness of civilization”, he takes her along with him because he can tell that she has the eyes of a fighter.

I mainly want to do this as an amatuer's attempt at historical fiction