Owen Vance was lieutenant in the Southern Imperial Dynasty’s armed forces. Despite his genius in military strategy, he was consistently passed over in favor of more connected peers. For years he stewed in his position, silently fuming as he witnessed his future slipping away, waiting for his Austerlitz or Zama, but it never seemed to come. Then, one day when it seemed his ambitions would never come to pass, a chance arose to claim his rightful place in the world.