1461. The last Greek empire in the East is crushed between two great powers: on one side, the rising Ottoman Empire, and on the other, the Turkoman tribe of the White Sheep (Ak Koyunlu), which held sway over the regions of present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan, eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and Iran.

After the Fall of the City, their conflict seemed inevitable. The Empire of Pontus is threatened by Muhammad II the Conqueror. Emperor John Komnenos seeks an alliance with Uzun Hasan, the ruler of the Ak Koyunlu.

The empire of the Megalocomnenoi, which survived for over two and a half centuries, falls under the rule of Sultan Muhammad II eight years after the fall of Constantinople. A dark yet interesting story in the shadow of the Fall of the City, a tragic love, a window into events little known of the Hellenism of the East…