In September 1939, as a 10 year-old boy, Michal Giedroyc watched the Russian security police seize his home in Eastern Poland. His father, a senator and judge, was imprisoned while his mother, with Michal and his two sisters, were left on the streets of the local town to fend for themselves. Later they were transported in cattle trucks to the wastes of Soviet Siberia, with hundreds of thousands of other deportees. "Here, by the will of the rulers of the Soviet Empire, we were to toil and die." Eighteen months of deprivation and hunger on a collective farm brought them to the brink of extinction. Exhausted, half starved, and ill, Michal's mother and her children set off on a second grueling journey that would take them across Central Asia to Persia, the Middle East, and finally England. In one dramatic incident their survival hinged remarkably on the just two simple objects—a potato and a penknife.

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John Rykus did not believe in time travel. But to live it first hand after his family become random victims, would break the very foundation of his reality and send his consciousness into a void of fantasy. Forced to survive on an unfamiliar planet against an unknown alien enemy, Rykus and his family must adapt and overcome a myriad of obstacles. Against overwhelming odds in a world they are unfamiliar with, they are compelled to interact with some of the most frightening and amazing creatures never before seen in human history. The sinister Nogzakhs of the Dominion would stop at nothing to recapture this elusive human fugitive and conquer a Kingdom that was in desperate need of a hero. Rykus transformed his human self to become Adon , the King of Cavanon. Charged with the restoration of the species, Adon would struggle to defend this ancient kingdom against the merciless Federoth and his alien forces. However, with great power comes great responsibility, and the King would learn, painfully, that Good cannot exist without Evil.