<p><em>The old world is burning down</em><br />
<em>A hero will rise from its ASH.</em></p><p>Thirty years have passed since Britannia voted to throw off the Roman yoke. Now, the old world crumbles.&nbsp;</p><p>Pirates roam the seas, bandits threaten the highways, and barbarian refugees land at Britannia&#39;s shores, uninvited. The rich profit from the chaos, while the poor suffer. A new Dark Age is approaching - but all is not lost.</p><p><strong>Ash</strong>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;<em>Seaborn</em>, a Saxon child found on the beach with nothing but a precious stone at his neck and a memory of a distant war from which his people have fled. Raised on the estate of a Briton nobleman, trained in warfare and ancient knowledge, he soon becomes embroiled in the machinations and intrigues at the court of&nbsp;<strong>Wortigern</strong>, the Dux of&nbsp;<strong>Londinium</strong>, a struggle that is about to determine the future of all Britannia.&nbsp;</p><p>A child of Saxon blood, an heir to Roman family, his is a destiny like no other: to join the two races and forge a new world from the ruins of the old.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>