The Ash of Alexandria

The year is 31 BCE, and the golden city of Alexandria is falling. Octavian's war galleys smash through the harbor defenses, their bronze rams splintering the Ptolemaic fleet. In the grand hall of the Serapeum, you hold a blazing torch before the dry, hand-copied scrolls you have spent thirty years cataloging—the cumulative wisdom of the ancient world. To save Prince Caesarion, the last heir of Egypt, you must destroy the very knowledge you swore to protect. By setting fire to the great archives, you can send a wall of black smoke surging across the harbor, blinding the Roman vanguard long enough for the prince's barge to break for the open sea. As marble halls crumble around you and Roman sandals thunder down the colonnades, every choice forces a devastating trade-off. Will you burn humanity's greatest treasures to forge an alternate timeline where the empire never fell, or can you salvage enough of history's memory to light the path ahead?