Codex Regius

Opus Gemini III Codex Regius

Around 70 B. C., a tradeship that was heading for Rome foundered off the coast of Antikythera. On board was the most sophisticated device known to the classical world: The Antikythera Mechanism - a set of gears that might foretell the ways of the stars. In the sea, the Antikythera Mechanism escaped the strike that destroyed all its siblings a hundred years later. Save for one: The OPUS GEMINI that has been ruined only twenty years ago. Princess Iulia Balbilla is still striving to retrieve it and to restore her power over hearts and minds of the masters of Roma. But her agent Pernica the Swift has finally learnt about the unhappy fate of the OPUS GEMINI. And Balbilla has decided that Pernica shall pay her doubts with her life. But there is still the Dominion Device. It is now in the hands of Catvalda, Supreme Father of Mount Dounobriga. Currently he is inviting all the barbary lands to unite under his emerging power. At his side is Iulius Adrianus, out of reach beyond the Limes. To find him, Pernica has to return into her past and to confront her most dreaded enemies in the heart of their power: the Germani! And then, Adrianus receives evidence that even the evil Headhunters are active on Mount Dounobriga. Thus the Dominion Device may bring a new power to Germania - and doom over the Roman Empire.