While hidden away in our little beach house, I learned that Alexis the dangerous Elder wasn't much different than Alexis the human.

He had lived during the Byzantine Empire. Not that I'm much of a historian but curiosity had caused me to read up on that period of time. It was when the Roman Empire had split into two factions; the western half was called Byzantium or Constantinople and the eastern half Alexis called the Barbarian Kingdom.

Alexis had worked for the ...