No one suspected that the quiet child would grow into an all-powerful politician, before whom the whole of Europe would tremble. His name was Armand du Plessis de Richelieu, he wanted to quickly become an adult and protect his loved ones from the horrors of civil unrest. He successfully studied at the military academy and dreamed of becoming a colonel, but fate decreed otherwise. A man born for war was forced to wage it not on the battlefield, but in the seedy Luzon bishopric, at court... and in the queen’s bed.