In the halls of power, rotten wood holds office; between the palace steps, beasts draw their salaries. Men with the hearts of wolves and the ways of dogs crowd the corridors of power, while bootlickers take charge of government. Order collapses, the court is thrown into chaos, and the land is divided as warlords rise everywhere. Some take to the hills and become bandits, some raise armies and proclaim themselves kings, and some disappear into the bustling city. Watch how a streetwise youth, in this age of chaos, can lie drunk on the battlefield and awaken with the halls of power in his grasp.
