This is a novel about a journey, about skill, about mysteries, and about larger forces in the world shaping our own and working around us. It's also about the complexity of human experience. All of these themes resonate with me in one way or another. I first read it when I was around 18, and I particularly loved it because it made me think hard about questions of morality and coexistence while also providing that fantasy escape which I've always craved. The story in Sailing to Sarantium finishes in a second book, Lord of Emperors.