Prudentia

The strong command the weak—that’s how the world is arranged. A powerless peasant trembles before a greedy baron. A baron shudders before an all-powerful duke. The duke ingratiates himself with the emperor. And even the emperor doesn’t feel safe, because somewhere high above—through a sky scorched by radiation—down watches the Lord with his angels… It doesn’t matter that the baron wears motorized exo-armor, and the duke patches weak flesh with genetic potions. The main law of the world is always unchanged. The strong will rule over the weak. For all eternity.

Grimbert, Margrave of Turin, arrogantly believes he can control this law. A talented intriguer and manipulator, he’s confident he knows people well and is one step away from realizing his long-cherished plan. So much so that he doesn’t even think about what will happen if he makes a mistake—having underestimated the enemy for the first time.

A warlike anti-utopia: mechs with robot knights and glorious heroes who don’t mind taking power—or taking the hard path of correcting their own mistakes.

Prudentia is the first book of the Raubrit ter trilogy.