Five years after the events of Regent's Reign, Rodrigo is on the run in the Empire, his face on posters as an enemy spy. In Belandria, Marriette is frustrated that after five years, she is no closer to a working council of commoners and nobles. As events in the Empire conspire to create chaos and endanger all the Rehego, Belandria teeters on the edge of civil war. Commoners tired of waiting to have power over their lives declare their villages independent, nobles react in anger, and someone behind the scenes is fanning the flames. The world is changing, adapt or burn.