""My kind, so gentle, so brittle, so fragile, are found in the freak shows that your caged mind exile. My kind, my friend, my true companion, are the kind that share your same wrapper with slightly different flavors and seasonings. And what is so harmful about such a beauty?"" ""I'd call it a monster."" ""Oh-ho, but beauty is seen with eyes that shield a mind which harbors its own sort of image of the adjective. We differ upon what it means to be beautiful up here on Reign."" ""But you're blind."" ""And so you prove my hypothesis. correct, good man."" On Reign the purpose of life is not questioned. Success is grounded in hard work, monetary worth, and above all, your ability to stay on Reign. Those who can't conform, those who don't fit the mold, spend their lives in the Under, the asylum for the criminally different. While trying to avoid such a fate, Detective Kane and his biographer Timmothy must investigate their society's first serial killer all while tackling the abnormal and preserving the fragments of their remaining sanity.