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During what should have been an ordinary diplomatic meeting, Italy's private wish is granted: he wants to know what Holy Rome would have been like as an adult—what kind of man the boy he once loved might have become if history had allowed him to live long enough to grow into it.
Reality fractures. The assembled nations are torn out of their own world and dropped into an alternate history where the past has been rewritten with broad, merciless liberties. Borders are wrong. Alliances are wrong. Memory itself no longer aligns cleanly with the world around them. The familiar architecture of Europe remains, but its foundations have shifted into something older, harsher, and far less forgiving.
At the center of it stands the answer to Feliciano’s wish:
The Holy Roman Empire did not die.
He lived.
And he became Roma.