The Castle Village is no longer a frontier settlement.
Roads are reaching out to distant communities, iron and coal fuel the beginnings of industry, and the first steam engines promise to transform an entire world. As Philip Smart helps guide a fragile alliance of settlers, Norse villagers, and Native tribes, a new civilization is beginning to emerge.
But at the northern part of the mountain valley, a new settlement appears and threatens upend a fragile status quo. Philip must reach an accommodation with this threat while preserving the current domain.
Caught between political intrigue, technological progress, and revelations about the nature of the multiverse itself, Philip must lead his growing commonwealth through its greatest challenge yet.
The Commonwealth is rising. The question is whether it can survive its own success.
Genre: Science Fiction
Roads are reaching out to distant communities, iron and coal fuel the beginnings of industry, and the first steam engines promise to transform an entire world. As Philip Smart helps guide a fragile alliance of settlers, Norse villagers, and Native tribes, a new civilization is beginning to emerge.
But at the northern part of the mountain valley, a new settlement appears and threatens upend a fragile status quo. Philip must reach an accommodation with this threat while preserving the current domain.
Caught between political intrigue, technological progress, and revelations about the nature of the multiverse itself, Philip must lead his growing commonwealth through its greatest challenge yet.
The Commonwealth is rising. The question is whether it can survive its own success.
Genre: Science Fiction
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