The mad prince gets closer to the throne every day, and his Thulean sect with him. His younger brother will soon be a puppet king, forcibly married to a foreigner. As for the guinea pig I worked so hard to turn into an angel, she has been taken away by his secret service to become a weapon. Both will become cogs in the kronprinz' war machine, ready to set the world ablaze. In the streets and palaces, revolutionaries, industrialists and other upstarts await from the same chaos the opportunities they have desired for so long. Only a few diehards remain to defend the dying empire, timidly supported by frightened foreign powers... Lord, have mercy. - Diary of Dr Marcus.