When a shooting star is seen falling from the sky, only one thing is for great changes—for good or for ill—are afoot in the kingdom of Palantia. The princess is taken and presumed dead, causing the nobles to plot amongst themselves to install a weak-willed regent. To the north, the aging Duke Anselmo struggles to extricate himself from a border skirmish that's dragged on for generations and in the of the neighboring swamplands, denizens steel themselves for unknown upheavals.