After 2400 years of war the remnants of a once arrogant civilization cobble together the Founding Edicts in order to stay alive. Two hundred years later, a few of the wise and a few of the ruthless come to understand that the Edicts are strangling life out of the living. At the urging of his mother but contrary to everything his grandfather has taught him, a young prince escorts a wizened Sybil to minister to his dying father. The Company of the Lords...