Is This a Roman-Empirical Book?

" decay was completely co-opted and made into ruin which is one of the reasons this book will not exist in this form because it can't like this is clearly a story in part about decay," he says. "The world is sort of Roman empire inspired but also kind of Shakespearean." The idea of these two brothers who are in conflict and the eventuality of their situation for the humans in the world has faded into myth, writes Poynter.