From the salt of the Mediterranean to the frozen edge of the world.

1653: the docks of Livorno are a theatre of dreams and tar, where one man’s choice will echo across centuries. Carlo Martini, a porter’s son bound to the rhythm of the tides, sees his world collapse when a devastating plague turns his home into a city of ghosts. Driven by a dying promise, he flees the salt-stained ports of Marseille for the brutal winters of New France. Alongside a resilient band of settlers and the courageous Filles du Roi, Carlo expected to find a blank wilderness, only to encounter a world already written in blood and arrows. In this land that never forgets, where the drums of the Iroquois herald an uncertain dawn, they must learn that survival is a pact, not a guarantee.
From the warmth of Italy to the vastness of an untamed continent, a lineage is born to bridge two oceans.

When the map ends and the forest begins to breathe, will you have the courage to write the first line of a new world?

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