In the glittering height of the 19th-century British Empire — the empire upon which the sun never set — Emperor Draco Malfoy had only recently ascended the throne after the voluntary abdication of his father, Emperor Lucius Malfoy. Though still very much alive, Lucius had grown weary of the endless machinery of state and believed the Empire needed youthful strength and renewed vitality at its helm. And so, at merely twenty-three years old, Draco found himself crowned sovereign of the most powerful empire in the world.