The offworlders are defeated. The Lithoids have been destroyed. It seems like a long-awaited peace is about to befall Hearth, but the servants of Chaos have their own designs. They're eager to destroy the trouble-maker and control him like some kind of puppet. Once a doomed soldier, always a doomed soldier.



But Archduke Maximilian Valevsky is not going to stand for this state of affairs. If there's a fight brewing, he's ready to wage war against the world, including the gods themselves! This is the only way to achieve greatness.