The Founder's Paradox

Marcus Aurelius Venn knows everything about the founding of Aeterna Lux. He's spent years studying the legendary Cassius — the mage who built a civilization from nothing, who designed the tithe system that still powers the city two thousand years later, who turned thirty starving refugees into an empire. Then his thesis experiment goes wrong, and Marcus wakes up in that empty valley, 2,347 years before he was born. They think he's Cassius. He doesn't correct them. Turns out, the historical problems he spent five years studying are a lot harder than they looked in the textbooks. Come follow along as Marcus finds his way from history student to pioneer. Updates weekly. Book 1 of a planned trilogy.