"...the pyrocrystal ring of Manuel the Great..."
-A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, p. 267 -
- and has a:
"...huge Roman nose..." (ibid.)
- if the latter is of any significance.
He tells Flandry that he:
has been Emperor for six years;
spent the first three fighting;
needs another twenty or thirty years to make this jerry-built, dry-rotted Empire last a few more generations;
must lead an armada to quell the barbarians in Sector Spica.
His son, Otto, unfortunately killed, would have been a trustworthy heir, unlike Dietrich or Gerhart.
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