An Historical Fantasy duology by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, consisting of: * Sailing to Sarantium (1998) * Lord of Emperors (2000) Set in the same world as Kay's earlier novel The Lions of Al-Rassan and his later The Last Light of the Sun (and thus, by extension, in the same universe as The Fionavar Tapestry and Ysabel), but in a different time and place, "The Sarantine Mosaic" is the story of (or at least, the story surrounding) one Caius Crispus, a mosaicist dwelling in Varena, Batiara (which is in no way Ravenna, Italy). Dispirited by a plague that killed his wife and daughters, Crispin soon finds himself accepting a commission meant for another man that will take him to ByzantiumSarantium, as well as being given a secret mission by the imperilled queen of Batiaria meant on