Noble Don Yves the Lucky, Mr. Corn, Abbot Noël, the Black Earl—The Eternal changes names for more than a century and a half, while the cosmic expansion of the “mighty” goes on, the representatives of a polyphyletic civilization conquering races and peoples along their path. And more and more often, he thinks that winning this war is impossible.
But if people still haven’t lost, perhaps the community of the “mighty” is not as monolithic as it seems—and heresy of the Related One has already taken root in different castes…?
Meanwhile, in the isolated Throne World of matriarchy, the grown queen Tera becomes again the victim of a conspiracy of aristocrats—only this time, behind the rebellion lies something far greater. The children of anger are the result of experiments by the “mighty” with human genes—“disposable” universal soldiers, all of them male—who sided with the Eternal. The trouble is: the “mighty” have run more than one experiment…