Power & Influence

A new world is being built from the wreckage of a society once thought to be sealed away. The captain of the settlers seizes control and rules as a cruel monarch, and under his reign the land is marked by killing and rot while people's hopes are crushed.

A handful of chosen allies makes repeated attempts to rescue others, yet their efforts keep ending in defeat. They endure his constant menace, which always becomes real action. He commands a metal army that carries out his orders as the fighting goes on. The source of the trouble, the story suggests, was a simple error: forcing people to have children. From that mistake, two luminous figures emerge and begin reshaping the new world.

Arthur, his closest friend Philip, his sister Maria, and a group of the King's disloyal followers struggle against what remains of a broken society and the leader who embodies it. Their aim is a world built on hope, love, freedom, and a sound moral sense.