The year is 1541 in a world much different from ours. Join an intrepid band of inventors, spies and scapegraces as something watery this way comes! In this story that was simply too big for one episode and yet too small for four, the Schmalkaldic League faces off against two factions of renegade geologists: the Neptunians and the Vulcanists, with the fate of Europe hanging in the balance! In part one, Aldo Krasplasian, Hungary's King of Puppets, goes into deep cover, Margaret of Parma seems to finally have gotten her revenge on Countess von Uexküll, and the terrifying Matterhorn Twins begin a reign of terror that will take them from Utrecht to the Gordian Knot in Anatolia. Don't worry, it all makes sense after days of reflection and writing in your journal!