Introduction: Born into a world where men are outnumbered by women five times over, where airships travel the skies and great beasts stalk the seas, William Ashfield has but one desire in life.Freedom.Yet in a feudal society where women rule and men are treated as little more than playing pieces in the great games of noble houses, freedom is a difficult thing to attain.Especially when one desires it for more than just themselves.Fortunately for William, with tensions growing in the Kingdom of Lindholm and the possibility of civil war brewing, opportunities may soon arise for a man born with knowledge of not just another life, but a wealth of technology completely alien to the world he now calls home....