Summary: Tren looses his daughter in a skirmish when transporting a book of magical secrets to Andalun - and her death is his fault.

The warhero Tren lives with his wife and his young daughter, Sophia, in a cabin in the woods. But war calls once more. After he left, his wife was infected with a dangerous disease and died, leaving young Sophia alone for days. When he returned he found her waiting for him - after that fateful day he sold the house in Tilea, took her with him as a traveling merchant and decided never again to put family over duty.

... 10 years later:

When Tren and his now older and carefree daughter Sophia cross the border from Castodia into The Dynasty, they stop in a small village by the name of Karascha. There they find an old friend from the Civil War days in Tilea who is short before his execution. He has a last will: Tren has to bring a magically sealed book of great importance to the City of Andalun - The City of Truth and Capital of the Dynasty. He explains that the lately occurring phenomenon's like poisoned rivers and dead animals had a reason hidden in the pages of this said book.

At first he refuses, knowing they will be hunted by Castodia’s Secret Agents, but realizing that many lives depend on it he finally gives in. Sophia begs him to not leave her again so she is allowed to come with him. They hire two more mercenaries, Adriana and Elon, to accompany them and start by retrieve the book from its secret hiding place in the nearby mountain.

During the crossing of the Spirited Forest though, at night, a stranger asks for refuge in their rune circle which is designed to keep the evil spirits away.

Enter the rune circle, listen to the Forest! - Atmosphere by Gonçalo Silva

Unfortunately he reveals himself - after making sure he was actually talking to the group transporting the magic book - to be an Agent of the Castodian Inquisition.

A skirmish ensues and the Inquisitor is killed - but so are Elon and Sophia. Without being able to hear her last words, Tren has to see Sophia die.

With a deeply broken spirit, Adriana and Tren make their way to the city of Andalun. There Tren plays with the thought of letting himself fall of the cliff which overlooks the city - being responsible for having lost his wife and daughter and no longer caring about the wars of the world.

But Adriana reveals that through a slight of hand the powerful book is still in their possession and she asks him to at least finish the mission with her: To bring the book to the head of the Order of Tian, as they were asked to do. He considers it.

Tren and Adriana hand over the book without a thanks received and realize what knowledge contained the book they had transported. Tren takes a job as a cook because he does not know what else to do and later seduces Adriana who tries to bring him into the Dynasty Secret Service - but she rejects him and he her offer. In the meantime Ayko is introduced in her perfect world catches a small rift that will lead her down a road to revelation.

Tren and Adriana hand over the book to the Order of Tian, but they are left without any information regarding the contents of the book.

Waiting to deliver their book in the Temple of the Tian Order he has a moment for himself undistracted remembering his daughter. - Music Theme composed by: Till Duft. Violin: Almuth Klocke.

With nothing left that Tren cares about he descends into nihilism. He takes a job as a cook in an underground Tilean Kitchen whilst drinking a lot, cracking jokes and trying to forget. When Adriana reappears a few weeks later to offer him to join the Dynasties Secret Service, he tries to seduce her. She goes along with it until she realizes that Tren is insincere and she knows that he is too afraid to care for someone again. She leaves and he appears to have learned nothing - and he will certainly not join the Secret Service because that would require him to get involved and take responsibility again.

We get introduced to a further character: Ayko (15). She is the young careless princess. Removed from the difficulty of the Royal life both through her disinterest and her fathers, King Isao’s, intent to keep her out of harms, she lives in her own little world. When she and her father arrive at Teara, she rejects a marriage offer by General Gewalt and although she has rejected many offer before, this rejection enrages Gewalt and he will not forget this disgrace. In the mean time, Ayko and her friend and soon-to-be knight Ezriel (16) who secretly hopes to marry her is just on a mission to steal a cake from the royal kitchen for fun when they come across a foodthief, Adam (15) there. Because Ayko persuades the guards in return for an angry monolog of his father Adam walks away that night without getting caught.

Tren “rescues” Adriana and takes it as a reason to join the Dynasty Secret Service. Ayko finds out more about life outside the palace and decides donating from her own belongings to the people.

Tren feels his life to be more and more empty. As he drives his addictions and hedonism to new levels he repeatedly finds himself in his apartment playing with his knife.

When one evening Tren sees Adriana in a dark alleyway under attack from street thugs he cant help but bail her out.

When he finds out that Adriana is now part of the secret service he agrees to join under the condition to be part of her Unit because he says she will get herself killed otherwise as in his opinion she as not as good a fighter as he is. Adriana theorizes in a conversation with one of the squad mates that he just needs someone to care about.

They are officially transferred to the Island of Teara where they are supposed to guard the supply route to the Royal Family which is currently positioned there.

In the meantime Ayko asks her mentor Usagi to escort her and Ezriel to the Harbor City where her father did not allowed her to go. She gets a taste of real life. When she meets Adam’s family she decides to donate them some money that she had on her. This sparks an idea she is going to follow: Taking those worthless golden coins that everyone seems to be so fuzzed about and giving it to the people who needs them.

Usagi talks in secret to an Tian envoy. The Magic Book that Tren delivered to Andalun has to be sent to the royal court for examination - it might be the key to Usagi’s studies of the late nature phenomenon's like dead wales, poisoned rivers that had been occurring lately.

Tren and Ayko meet and they don’t like each other. Tren discards the kings warnings that there might be a conspiracy. Ayko starts to give out money to citizens. Ezriel accepts an offer by General Gewalt to start training with him.

Tren gets to know the squad that he will be part of. They arrive on Teara and start training. He is introduced to Ayko and thinks she is a little uneducated, arrogant brat. It therefore does not please him when the king assigns him the duty to protect her against assassination and tells him about a secret conspiracy below the city in the red keep. Tren decides to discard his warnings and finds the next bar downtown where he can get drunk.

In front of Adam's Inn. - Concept atmosphere by Ana Machado

Ayko in the meantime starts to build a small Aid Base in Adam’s fathers Inn. There she gives out money for those in need. Slowly her actions are carried by the word of mouth and she receives daily envoys bringing matters of need to her ears. Soon her money starts running out. The king, her father, opposes her course as she will soon attract the whole kingdoms attention and run out of money. Adam and Ayko are getting closer to each other and Ezriel who watches this happen decides to take an offer by General Gewalt, a mercenary educator and a General in the Dynasties Royal Staff, to train him as a warrior capable of earning the “Heroes Privilege” which would allow him to marry Ayko.

Adams family is killed. Adam escapes. Reporters report this incident to reflect unfavorably on the kings family. Whilst everyone around Ayko is trying to put out fires, Tren smells a conspiracy.

One night a detective enters Adams Inn and finds that Adams father had not only been smuggling and also killed a man who had tried to take his wife in all senses of the word against her will. When he resists the imprisonment the conflict turns bloody and Adams father and mother are killed. Only Adam and his little sister manage to escape under the cover of night using the smuggling tunnels.

Conspiracy - Concept Composed by Till Duft

This stirs up controversy. All reporters report that the princess and the king had supported the illegal activities. This sows distrust between the Dukes of the Dynasty, advisors to the king and between Ayko and her friends. Ezriel turns his back on her when she tries to come to him for consolation whilst Usagi tries to manage the public relations crisis. However, in the meantime the magic book is stolen by a mercenary from the Red Keep positioned on Teara and under General Gewalts command - which tells the audience that the conspiracy that King Isao was fearing is indeed existing and is lead by General Gewalt. But no-one of the main characters is yet aware of this. Only Tren feels that something is strange about all reporters reporting the same thing - how shady the actions of the royal family appear - and starts investigating.

Ezriel is indoctrinated by Gewalt. A small secret service force is removed from Teara to resolve a traitor conflict in Calohan - when Adriana and her squad arrive there it turns out to have been a ruse. Adam arrives in the village Carino where a few farmers find and take care of him. Ayko steels kingly treasures to keep up her aid operations and Tren supports her.

Ezriels Training is making progress. Gewalt who by now is a bit like a father figure for Ezriel tells him about the injustices and imbalances between kings and everyone else and that he dreams of a more just society. Ezriel takes everything in.

A call for help from the Port of Calohan reaches Teara where conspirators are said to have taken multiple ships from the harbor and are now on their way to take the whole of Calohan. The king gathers a staff of Generals. They decide to dispatch many of the on Teara stationed special forces to help defend the vital military harbor. General Gewalt is the most eager supporter of this mission.

When Tren hears about this he airs his discontent to King Isao who then lectures him about responsibility and the complexity of his decisions and ignores everything else.

Adam arrives at a small village named Carino where a few good people give him fish to eat and a bed for the night.

Adriana arrives at Calohan. Everything is in perfect order. There are no conspirators. They suspect a ruse and they start a return journey to tell the king about it.

Ayko steals some of the kingly treasury to keep up her aid mission. Tren gets hears about it but doesn’t stop her. On her request he gives her a fighting lesson.

General Gewalt arrives with a force at Carino and kills everyone with a few exceptions, including Adam. When he leaves to the Demongate to get himself a personal demon force he fails to control them and dies trying. Adam manages to convince people on board the prison ship to drive back and warn Teara. There they discover that mercenary forces set to defend Teara have vanished and that the Lightfire used to emergency contact Port Calohan is been made inaccessible by Ezriel and a couple of mercenaries.

General Gewalt appears at the small village of Carino in which Adam is currently stationed. They attack by night and kill almost everyone in order to establish a naval base without witnesses. Only Adam and a few children survive by hiding until they are captured and brought onto boats. Adam recognizes the moral of the soldiers to be low on board. The General’s plan seems to be to use the Demongates forces to overwhelm and kill the king, take the throne whilst establishing a democracy and later adding the demons to his army to fight against the Holy Empires - the Dynasty long time rivals - but most are not happy with both the risk and killing everyone alive in Teara. When General Gewalt leaves to make his way to the Demongate, Adam manages to convince the man on his boat return to a mounting storm back to Teara to warn the others.

At the Demongate General Gewalt and his fellows perform a ritual that opens the Demongate prematurely. Using the stolen Book of Magic he tries to command the nightmarish demons that now ascend from the Gate. But the Demons are not affected at all and within seconds he and all his men are dead. The book falls onto the ground and is not seen again until Season 3.

Adams ship almost sinks in the storm - he arrives at Teara and raises the alarm. He is released from his temporary imprisonment when it is realized that the Red Keep’s Mercenary forces under General Gewalts command that were supposed to defend Teara in case of an emergency, are gone.

The King finally accepts that he has been lured into a trap and wants to sent word to Port Calohan using the Lightfire - the emergency signal of Teara - but he finds all gates around the lightfire are barricaded by a man who has the key to all the gates: Ezriel. And he has a few man guarding the entrance.

The Lightfire Room is taken and Ezriel imprisoned. Teara notifies the 1st Fleet to come to their aid. The attack commences and everyone realizes that retreating seems to be their only option. All civilians leave despite the storm and Ayko frees Ezriel to help in the fight.

The Royal Guards breaks through to the Lightfire Room and ignite a distress signal. The fight does not happen when Ayko talks to Ezriel who gets imprisoned for treason after the Royal forces breached the Room.

Through the storm the Tower guards on the surrounding Islands miss the signal though. Only after three hours the light breaks through the mist, alarming Port Calohan which immediately starts deploying the 1st Royal Fleet to relieve Teara.

On Teara preparations for the battle are in full swing. Ayko holds a speech to the population of Teara. Many of those families who received help stay and prepare to fight whilst the rest gathers on the airport and port ready to leave once the storm has died down.

The 24th watches over the dark, stormy sea from the insight of the lighthouse when the attack commences - Atmosphere by Ana Machado

Then the attack commences. Demons and Hollows have formed up in the fog and darkness, gathered their materials they brought from the demongate and now wave after wave the crash on rafts against the Fortress Island’s Wall. Soon the defenders realize that they are not in for a monthlong siege but for a battle lasting no longer then a night.

When Usagi consults a souls wisdom for the upcoming battle in his wizard tower, he finds out that Soulmagic which had previously not been useable in combat action is now usable and they are trying to figure out how to use it.

Soon the first Ring is taken and the forces retreat to the Palace defenses on the upper parts of the city.

Finally the Demons and Hollows have breached Downtown. All over the Castle Island fights ensue and the Royal forces slowly retreat into the Stronghold. The Civilians who chose to leave are using all airships and ships now to try and escape despite the storm. There is not enough space for everyone.

Ayko frees Ezriel from prison. She trusts him to fight for her and he is eager to redeem himself.

The King is killed. Adriana’s Squad arrives and by sacrificing himself Ezriel enables the others to reach the boats and safety. After they have returned from the Island Ayko returns to Andalun where she will be fighting the upcoming war with her friends and Tren who has become somewhat like a father to her.

A small demon detachment arrives from an unpredictable angle: From the air using bat like creatures like dragons - and manages to kill the King but not Ayko who is now fiercely defended by Ezriel, Adam, Usagi and Tren. Ayko witnesses her last parent’s death.

As the island is overrun they flee towards the southern docks where Adriana and her squad have arrived with their few boats to rescue the last survivors. On the way back she sees people who had come to Adam’s Inn for help, stayed because of her and are now laying dead in the dirt. While chased down by a mass of Hollows and Demons Ezriel sacrifices himself, so that the others can reach the harbor. To do so, Ayko has to let him go - finally understanding through sacrifice her own responsibility as the new Queen.

On the fastest ship, Ayko, Tren and the others make it back to Andalun where they are met by the generals of the army and transported to the towns stronghold. Ayko tries to make the decision to mobilize all forces but she and the generals get into a disagreement. The military staff fears that if too many forces will be drawn into the conflict, Castodia will realize their weakening and bring its allies to crush the Dynasty, forcing it into a two front confrontation.

Tren finds Ayko in a room in the castle. Being the only one she trusts, she explains her worries to Tren. He listens and comforts her as the father she has lost and he failed to be a year ago.

Ayko has realized her responsibility, Tren has found his way back to meaning but the war has just now begun.

Warveteran Tren tries to recover from the loss of his daughter that occurred during a transport mission of a magic book. His journey brings him together with Princess Ayko of “The Dynasty” who he trains so she will be able to defend herself. During the process he learns how to care - about anything be it a person, country or cause - again despite all that has happened and becomes something like a father to Ayko again whilst she realizes her responsibility for herself and her people. But this happens during a cold war and an immanent invasion of a in the magic book mentioned Demon Army summoned by a conspirator at the Demongate. In a battle of survival on a small Island Teara where our main characters stay, the King and Aykos friend and love interest are unable to escape alive and Tren has to become advisor to the queen and father to Ayko who lost her dad. A role that his past has prepared him for.

The Holy Empires, a League of Nations which had long waited for a weak point in the Dynasties defenses, get notice of the Dynasties struggle against the sinister forces of nature. They sent forth their armies to crush the Dynasty which was now fighting on two fronts. During this hard time Ayko learns what it really means to run a country at war. Dark schemes in Castodia keep Tren busy trying to prevent assassination attempts on Ayko’s life whilst negotiating peace with the Holy Empires that tragically falls apart at the worst possible moment. In Trens absence however the loss of her love and the great responsibility bare terribly on Ayko. She almost looses control in which case the different Dukes running the Dynasty provinces would have waged war against each other. She realizes that in order to bare responsibility she has to take care of herself so she will be in a position to make the hard choices to ensure the survival of her people. In the meantime the Demons have arrived at borders all over the Western World bringing devastation to all whilst the Dynasty had been hit hardest and the enemy keeps coming. In order to unite the dukes she comes up with a plan: The people of the Dynasty give up on their land under unbearable pressure and pull of the greatest logistical effort of their time: Moving all their people through “The Boon” - a Inland Sea- to the safety of the Valano Mountains to regroup with what is left of mankind.

Tren leads a group of diehard undercover agents back through the demon infested lands based on the small slither of hope they might be able to figure out how to close the demongate.

Ayko and the council of kings and queens from the remaining countries take a while to figure out how to work together but Ayko’s experience at the front of the war but also a deadly illness that has her under control giving her not much time to live helps them unite. Usagi determines the cause of her illness: A previous incident in which she closely escaped a demons attack.

Mankind prepares itself for the last stand as all Western States up to the Valano Mountains have been overrun. Whilst the battle ensues in the mountains Tren comes closer to the Demongate due to his prior insights into the matter finding more and more evidence that he might be able to open the gate.

When they reach the gate they find a way to bring his dead daughter Sophia back from the underworld but in a tragic twist of events Tren himself dies. The legacy of the old world - their fights and decisions - are now their children’s to bare.

After the great battle, Ayko prepares mankind for a new dawn before she too dies of her illness. And history is ready to repeat itself but it will never forget her name.