A modern-day person has fully adapted to the Early Middle Ages. Knowledge gained in a previous life allowed him to become the biggest merchant in his lands, hire a retinue, and build a small principality. He understands that if he is rich but weak, his predatory neighbors will crush him in an instant. So he has to spin like a squirrel in a wheel. In the West, the king of the Franks, Hlotar, begins to look at his wealthy neighbor with not-so-friendly eyes. And in the East, the absolute hegemon of Central Europe—the Avar Khaganate. He has to survive somehow…