Videssos Cycle Series : Bridge of the Separator

Destined To Become The Ecumenical Patriarch Of The Empire Of Videssos, Rhavas Witnesses The Destruction Of His World When Civil War Erupts And The Khamorth Barbarians Attack From Across The Border, Forcing Rhavas To Flee. Harry Turtledove. Rhavas was a good, holy, and pious man - and the cousin of the Avtokrator. He would probably have become ecumenical patriarch of the Empire in the capital, Videssos the city... if his world had not suddenly and tragically fallen apart when the Empire of Videssos erupted into civil war and the Khamonh barbarians swarmed over the borders.