Introduction: The Empire has towered above human race more than seventy thousand years. Its Pantheon controls it with an iron fist. Its Institutions consumes all talent and inovation. Its armies and ships maintain its ever growing borders. But all bow before the Emperor, who oversees its fate.Val de Morvelant born into a free clan, travels the Empire carefree until one day his clan gets sweeped up in a storm. Now alone he seeks the culprits and may find he is totally unequiped to deal with the shockwaves of his revenge....