/lit/ - Literature

Currently reading pic related. Any thoughts?
Reads like a Guy Ritchie movie set in totally-not-Ancient-Rome and I'm not sure I'm crazy on the anachronistic stuff (blue / red corner, or the bureaucracy). It reminds me of The Black Company as well, for the main character and narrator, esp. the books of the south when there's a siege and they later besiege some place. The setting is still kinda generic, but at least it's better than all that Hindi shit Cook stole.

Do the Rosur (or whatever they're called) or "blueskins" have olive skin (like Romans or Arabs) or are they sub Saharan black?