“You need to be a teacher to your people.” They build, they build, and they build. Kattegat has grown and it has grown large, from an earl’s village to a king’s capital to a merchant's metropolis. It is a modern city, and it is a prize, and Queen Kattegat will defend it. She has set her people to building, building, and building. They will build defenses. There are enough enemies within already. King Jordan Korg is dead, but he lives on. He lives on in his dying words, carried by wind and rumor and legend to his sons. King Jordan Korg’s youngest son, Jack, seeks vengeance against Earl Ingstad for the death of his mother, Queen Ella. But his brothers Lucas and Sigurd pull Jack’s focus toward another vengeance. They should attack King Anna, in tiny Northumbria — or, following their father

