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An unwilling time traveler stranded with no way home. A beloved city ruler locked in a generational feud. A social pariah mocked for her heritage. A wizened inventor bound to his tower. A young noblewoman seeking adventure and glory. When a mad scientist breaks into Obsidian Aerotech to steal a secret superweapon, historian-turned security guard Retyar Venon gets caught up in problems bigger than he signed up for. Accidentally thrown hundreds of years into his world Dunya's past, he is faced with the choice of altering history or saving all he knows by hiding himself away from human contact. Unfortunately, these are not simple times. Tensions in the Aristocracy of Leverie are boiling over as Arzan Redleaf and Thrake Leverie find their longstanding enmity breaking the peace. According to the original timeline, the land is destined for political strife and civil war, with the threat of imperial invasion hanging over all. Assassins are in the shadows, conspiracies are afoot, and armies are on the march. Swords will clash. Nations will fall. The stakes are high. And with an interloper from the future trapped in their midst, those stakes are even greater than anyone realizes.

Retyar Venon gets more than he bargained for when he becomes a security guard for a supposedly defunct R&D lab that turns out to house a top secret time travel machine. While trying to stop a mad scientist from altering history, he gets himself thrown hundreds of years into his world's past. Stranded with no way home, Retyar must choose between altering the timeline himself or doing his best to stay out of history's way. Unfortunately for him, he's landed in the Aristocracy of Leverie—a country on a path towards civil war and in the way of the expanding Vron Empire. And the very day he arrives turns out to be one of the sparks kindling the conflict between Crenden Arzan of House Redleaf and Crenden Thrake of House Leverie. The two men stand in a generational feud, increasingly complicated by national politics, family relationships, and news from beyond their borders. Added into the mix is Charva Leverie, Thrake's daughter—a free spirit with an eye for her father's city throne. Ambitiously hoping to turn her homeland into the jewel of the continent, she is more than willing to befriend Thrake's enemies. As plots develop, however, they will all find that there are hidden schemes they did not anticipate, as well as factors that threaten to shake the world itself. Get ready to dive into the first entry in a sci-fi fantasy epic where past, present, and future collide, and things are not as simple as anyone imagines.