Tika is dragged into an uprising in Strale. The lords who plan to take power from King Troman and his government, are all from houses who wish things to return to the ways they've always known and enjoyed. They want a return to slavery and to their unlimited and uncriticised ways of living at the expense of all others. They are also determined to regain the lands and coin that King Troman had relieved them of in the last few years. Tika chooses to aid the lords who try to uphold the new freedoms Troman had introduced.