Fear has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Those who were once friends can quickly turn into enemies, revealing aspects of their personality that should have been impossible. The Red War, which brought both humans and dragonkind to the brink of destruction, has been over for decades, and the world has rebuilt itself better than it was. Dragons and humans have learned to live together in peace, but some of the old scars remain. In a desperate move to finally rid the United Provinces of the West of the last-remaining evils of the past, Senator Zall successfully pushed to get the Charleston bio lab shut down once and for all. The dilapidated structure represented the worst of humanity as Dr. Castillo had used it as a testing ground for his sickening experiments on dragons. As a leading biochemist with the Ministry of the Interior, it fell to Dr. Lum