IGNIS AETERNUS

Ignis Aeternus (The Eternal Flame) is a monumental work of alternate history and speculative civilization. Set in a timeline where the Roman Empire endures for more than two thousand years, the saga chronicles the rise, transformation, and eventual cosmic ascension of humanity’s oldest power.

The story begins in 455 CE when Emperor Majorian survives an assassination attempt and enacts the Lex Aeterna, a constitutional reform that transforms a collapsing autocracy into a resilient technocratic republic. At its center stands House Flavian, a dynasty bound by the ancient law of ultimogeniture in which the youngest child inherits the throne. Each generation, from Gaius the monk-emperor to Octavia the archivist of the stars, inherits both the empire’s glory and its curse.

Across centuries of reform, expansion, and revelation, the Flavian heirs face the enduring question of civilization itself: can an empire built on conquest evolve without extinguishing the flame that defines it? From the marble halls of antiquity to orbital citadels above Saturn, Ignis Aeternus explores the cost of continuity, the tension between preservation and progress, power and purpose, mortality and transcendence.

This ongoing project unites historical realism with cosmic mythmaking, following an unbroken lineage of rulers, scholars, and visionaries who redefine what it means to rule the world and ultimately to carry the fire beyond it.