It is the age after King Arthur’s reign. There is a magical dragon up in the mountains whose breath has created a mist over Arthur’s kingdom under which people have an extremely thin grip on their long-term memories. When separated for long periods, parents forget their children, lover forgets lover. Village councils adjudicate on a problem and then have no recollection it ever happened. A generation ago, Arthur and his knights waged a successful war to protect Britons against the Saxons and carved out a great kingdom. In order to stop future generations of Saxons from continuing the cycle of violence, the Knights slaughtered some entire villages and lineages, not sparing children and babies. Arthur, recognizing that this would not end the cycle of violence but worsen it, asked Merlin to enchant the dragon and so memories of this genocide were lost and the land knows peace. The Britons are safe in Arthur’s kingdom and live in harmony alongside a minority of Saxons in Briton and Saxon villages alike. Neighboring Saxon kingdoms look at the Saxon minorities as the best way to wage war against Arthur’s kingdom and expand. Sir Gawain, knight and nephew of Arthur, the last surviving member of the old King's faithful, walks the crypts over the skulls of Saxon babies and questions if they were in the right. Gawain is now an elderly yet formidable as ever warrior who could dispose of the dragon swiftly. Yet, so far, he has chosen not to, fearing the violence that would descend upon the land if the Saxons remember