The year is 768AD and, after the death of his father, Charlemagne is to share the Frankish throne alongside his brother. It is the age of a chosen few, an age of greatness, when the first true kings built vast kingdoms from the ashes of past empires. Whatever the cost, and whatever the means. But even after the apocalypse there are men willing to give everything to return to light, to knowledge, to civilisation. The world lays in tatters, exhausted, bleeding, scarred and burnt, the people desperate.