1 PROLOGE

Count courts control our lives. They own us. He owns us.

We get no justice. We get no respect. We get no life.

We belong to him the emperor. They say his family has always have kept the world and the balance safe. In return for this, we give our lives and our children, our brothers and our sisters. We give him everything. What is the balance you might think? Why is it important to the story I'm about to tell? This is no children's storey the balance is not good and evil. It is the fight between to evils each greater than the other all ways vying for power.

The emperor is the ruler. The counts are his advisers and they run the count counts giant skyscrapers where you are sent to work at fourteen. From then on you work for them whether you are a lowly shopkeeper or visor (the protector and people that work directly with the counts)

Death is the ruler of the assassins or the cloaks when he decides it is time for you to die he will have you killed before he has made up his mind. Most people call them the cloaks because their cloaks and hoods determine their rank, green being the lowest and red being the highest. Deaths cloak is Black.

Only three assassins have ever made it to the red cloak rank and only one lives now Scarlet Death and no one knows her identity.