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Not when the Nicaeans are claiming the purple as well. Considering Trebizond's emperors never bent the knee when they had a much weaker position and more reason to come crawling to the Palaiologoi IRL (at least until the latter started flying into a death spiral of civil wars), I suspect that's...

No more likely than a Nicaea/restored Byzantine Empire-Trebizond one was IRL, IMO, unless their ruling dynasties unite by marriage or something. Since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the transfer of its regalia to Constantinople there can only be one Emperor, after all.

After the Fourth Crusade, one of the successor states which emerged from the Byzantines' husk was the Despotate of Epirus in what's now Albania & western Greece, founded by the Komnenodoukai - bastard cousins of Isaac II Angelos. The second Despot, Theodore, got quite far: he conquered...