His actions and the withholding of this information does not sit well with the Senate. The Ash Lord had tried to call for peace but Darrow, seeing his lie, did not relent. Dancer has brought forth Cassius’s mom Julia au Bellona to speak against him. They are aided by Kavax, who Lyria rescues from drowning, and so he takes both Lyria and her nephew with him to Luna.ĭarrow stands accused at a hearing of the Senate. She and her family run and only she and her blind nephew, Liam, survive. To make matters worse, a group called the Red Hand is terrorizing Gammas and purging them from the earth. At first, her people were happy to be free but now their living conditions are so bad that she wonders if it was worth it. She is a Gamma and her Red mine was liberated eight years after the former Sovereign was killed. Still, Darrow plans to ask the Senate for more men to take on the Ash Lord and defeat him once and for all.Īn eighteen-year-old Red girl named Lyria lives on Mars. This move, though successful, was in direct disobedience to an order from the Senate to stand down. Dancer has left fighting to join the Senate and resides on the moon as well.ĭarrow has just returned from a battle to liberate Mercury where his troops performed an Iron Rain, and one million souls were lost. As it is no longer safe on Mars, they all live on Luna. He and Victra have three daughters and another on the way. His wife Mustang is Sovereign to the society, and their ten-year-old son is starting to feel the neglect of his always-absent father.

Darrow, now 33 years old, is wary from years of war. Iron Gold picks up a decade after Morning Star ends. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Iron Gold?

Golds are on the top and Reds are at the bottom. All people are divided into color classes. Setting & Society – It is set in a futuristic solar system where Mars, Luna, and other moons and planets have been terraformed.

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