Collapse of an Iota

When Archangels Mistake Their War

Fourth to fifth century A.D. The Roman Empire embraces Christianity, tears itself apart, and crumbles — and above the affairs of men, four archangels discover they understand nothing of the game being played.

Since Nicaea, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel believed they were waging a clear and righteous struggle: to impose orthodoxy, to crush heresy, to see a single word — homoousios — triumph over all others. A century later, the West lies in ruins, governed by tolerated Arian kings, and an entire people — the Huns — have just proven that one could exist, conquer, and reshape the world without a single named god, without so much as a creed.

Between Alexandria and the Catalaunian Plains, between Alaric's sack of Rome and Attila's death in his wedding bed, between councils that contradict one another and the dizzying confessions of a fallen Hades, this choral novel explores what remains of faith when certainties collapse faster than empires..

There is no simple lesson here. No victory that resolves anything. Only archangels who doubt, kings who die without grandeur, and a question that never ceases to resurface: what if divine power never sprang from the truth of a doctrine, but from the fervor it continues to inspire?

An ambitious historical-fantastical fresco, weaving theology, politics, and ancient tragedy, for readers who love History that resists every easy moral.