Rumors spread that the Immortal Emperor was naught but an impostor who sits on the throne of the hero who saved the world a thousand years before, looking down on everyone else and not seeing that his incompetence has slowly broken down the empire he was meant to rule. Iris Varisette Houlder, a young bastard of the second most powerful house in the empire seeks to slowly find a way to overthrow the Averdrian Emperor all in a futile attempt to inherit her grandfather's title of Lord Houlder. Would she be able to overcome the odds and overthrow the Immortal Emperor? Would she be able to win the respect of her grandfather that hates her very existence to the core of his heart?