One way of thinking about it would be in terms of "alternate world". It's not set in the future, or the past. An aside: "Star Wars", by George Lukas, is set in the PAST ("a long time ago, in a galaxy far away..."). That's why some of the characters have Sanskrit names (Padme = "Lotus") and the words to the fight song (Dual of the Fates) at the end of Phantom Menace are in Sanskrit. You should spot a lot of our-world anachronisms, such as the honor guard soldiers wearing distinctively ancient-Roman helmets and uniforms. They're supposed to look something like the praetorian guard. That's intentional.
Time is somewhat arbitrary from a God's-eye view of things.
Can't wait to keep going.
New episodes show up once a week, usually late Friday (Pacific Time), which means most folks don't see them until Saturday. One of my fan/critics wanted them to be longer, so most of the later episodes are longer.
These are edited versions of a much earlier version, as I had to learn how to write fiction on the fly, having no experience doing it. Handling issues such as caste and regional dialects (they have both) and names for imaginary props is not easy and took some experimentation to get right. Class dialect is taboo in modern American fiction ("racist", "classist", even if it really does exist...ah...), so I had no obvious models to work from, not that I read fiction much anymore anyway.
Handling love scenes turned into a major nightmare. Not familiar with suitable models, and when I looked up a reference on that sort of thing, I thought "this is trashy, not erotic". The problem has to do with the fact that in order to light up enough neurons to stimulate interest, you have to use words that have lots of neural connections. The English language is cursed with a dichotomy between vulgarized Anglo-Saxon and "clinical" concatenations of Latin and Greek that have little depth of meaning or emotional ties.
The analogy would be between the sentences
"The infant perished in the conflagration".
and
"The baby burned to death".
Is it...vous?
C'est moi! A votre service.
