Author's Note

For over 2000 years,the lands of China have been enveloped in the chaos of war and cut away from the rest of the world since the death of their legendary emperor: The Great Wu. However the rapid rise to power of the Xi Empire has resulted in China's re-unification and re-emergence as a world power. Prince Salif Bakar of the Askiyan Empire will be the first foreign leader to visit the far-eastern nation after accepting an invitation from the ruling Zhou family. What awaits him in the far off and mysterious lands of the Orient ?