THEORETICAL TIMELINE
Casca travels east to the troubled lands of Palestine and fights for a while in the pay of the embattled Crusaders but, tiring of their fanatical religious manner, boards a ship at Caeserea and heads for Venice.
CASCA: THE DEFIANT (part 1)
Casca saves the life of a young Venetian called Marco and befriends him. Together with Marco's friends, father and uncle, the two set off for Acre in the Holy Land to meet the newly elected pope, Gregory X. While there the city is attacked and they escape and decide to head for the court of Khubilai Khan, the Mongol leader in China. They pass through Persia and endure hardships but eventually pass into the lands of the Mongols. Casca is recognised as Casca-Badahur from his time with Genghis Khan and is feted.
The group make their way to China and are greeted by Khubilai, but a group of traditional Mongols attempt a coup which Casca helps to thwart. After fighting against the Burmese and helping to defeat the rebels, Casca returns to Venice along with his friend Marco and his family where he parts with them.
CASCA THE DEFIANT (part 2) and Theoretical Timeline
Casca spends a few years in an Alpine village but leave after all the villagers succumb to the plague. He decides to once more turn his hand to combat so when the call comes to join Edward III's army to fight the French he join up and fight in the battles of Crecy (1346) and Maupertuis (1356). With the war petering out, Casca leaves and heads once more to the north, where he spends time whaling and fishing.
When his friends die he heads south again and becomes embroiled in a Byzantine mission. Recruited by the Emperor for a secret mission as he speaks Mongolian, he is asked to plead for help from the Khan of the Golden Horde to stop the Turks. He rides to Berke-Sarai but the Golden Horde is as chaotic as Byzantium, and he eventually rides to Samarkand where a new warlord, Timur The Lame, is beginning to exert his influence. Sensing he is a possible saviour, Casca helps him rise to the top in Central Asia, defeating all their rivals, including the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kunduzcha (1394). Eventually Casca persuades Timur to attack the Ottomans and they rout them at the Battle of Ankara (1402). Casca returns to Constantinople but even with the Turks cowed things have decayed too far.
THEORETICAL TIMELINE
Casca sails to England which is seething with discontent, so King Henry V decides to have a war with France to distract the locals. Casca joins up and helps Henry win at Agincourt (1415). Casca is then garrisoned at Calais for a while, then he leaves to seek further adventures.
