Fantasy meets Science Fiction in this tale of the Retallian Civil War. Even though the Ancients have been gone from the world of Theras for nearly a thousand years, their law still holds sway over the minds of men. Three men hold a claim on the kingdom's empty throne, each jockeying for power with their own conflicting ideology. With unrest brewing among the citizenry, and a dark secret kept just under the palace floors, can the kingdom of Retall survive another war with the Ancients?