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After centuries of absolute monarchy in the six countries/continents, based on the belief that royal blood is the only protection human may have from werewolves and vampires, one of them is swept away by a popular revolution which guarantees equal rights to all citizens, including werewolves and vampires, declaring fear of these races a simple superstition. The Republic of Guntreland, which now numbers werewolves and vampires as its equal citizens, besides being threatened by foreign invasion and a local rebellion of superstitious villagers who see forced vaccination as a werewolf-minister's attempt to make human flesh more palatable to his race's appetite, is torn by a political strife of three factions: Masdenists, who believe in the sanctity of private property; Hrebsists, who do not consider the Revolution to be complete until all men have equal means; and Henscherists who wish to make their strict moral codex into a universal law. Reiner Kunze, a Henscherist revolutionary who had earned his standing by writing down Royalist crimes during the Old Regime, becomes commander of the newly-freed island of Alvald, and immediately becomes target to Hrebsist attacks because he, believing that cultural heritage can only enrich the Republic, severely threatens their members who burned down castles of former feudalists. At the same time, the Archkingdom of Sigisland is ruled by a dedicated and humane Karolina-Louise, who inherits the throne from her famous and proud precedessor, the Archking Ferdinand, whose fleet of balloons, the most powerful in history, had exploded in the air whilst attempting an invasion of the Republic of Guntreland. With a diminished military and believing that culture is the mightiest weapon, Karolina-Louise implements a reform of the Archkingdom replacing hereditary estates with meritocratic categories, and comes into conflict with the powerful and wealthy nobility which she had deprived of their privileges, the traditional separatism of the southern provinces, the haughty and irrational airs of her famously cultured nation, as well as her own moral dilemmas, the heaviest being how to treat vampires and werewolves. Great political ideas and philosophical systems, personal interests, conspiracies and political intrigues, cross and confront each other, creating unexpected coalitions and changing world's destiny.