Adlai Basil is an elite soldier of the Crowned Regiment-- a task force deployed by the mighty federation, Tevyne, to assuage the rampant bandit attacks on her people. Secretly, however, the High Council of Tevyne assigns a secondary charge to Adlai and his fellow soldiers: to find the previously -thought-mythical artifact, the Crown of the Thunder King, imbued with a power to bring eternal prosperity to the land. In a journey fraught with danger and mystery, Adlai discovers the countless principles which stir people to fight and struggle. The threat of rebellion, the cooling embers of war, and the gathering clouds of a new one all simmer beneath Tevyne's surface, so time is quickly running out to find the Crown-- and Adlai and his teammates might be the only ones who can do it.                                  ----------------- This will only be the first 19 chapters of the book.