After her father's death, Queen Sylvia inherits a starving kingdom on the brink of collapse, caught between a corrupt internal Council led by Lord Vane and a predatory marriage alliance with the industrial Prince Malcor. Refusing to be a puppet, Sylvia incites a tactical riot to feed her people, dismantles the old aristocracy to empower the working class, and survives an assassination plot in an old quarry. By choosing trade over marriage and grit over tradition, she transforms from a grieving daughter into a hardened sovereign who rules by the strength of her own resolve.