Jormanric wants to kill the Maestra and keep her soul entrapped in one of his skull rings so he can use it when his life is threatened. Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is frustrated by the limitations imposed on her by this society and fights to learn all she can from her tutor, Jared, before she is forced into an arranged marriage with the prince of her country.įinn and his oathbrother, Keiro, must appear before Jormanric, the leader of the Comitatus. Houses, clothes, transportation and medicine have been forced back to that more primitive century - although the people know it’s all make believe. Because the creators of Incarceron believed that technology led to the problems of society, they demanded that people live within the societal constraints of the 18th century. Those outside of Incarceron have been kept within their own prison over the years, a prison of protocol.

Finn manages to find the Maestra in the chaos and takes her as a hostage back to his home.

They steal food and throw it down chutes toward their own section of the prison.

The members of his group, The Comitatus, attack the Civicry. Finn, hoping she might have some clues to where he came from, warns her of the coming raid, but it is too late. She mentions it looks like the markings within a crystal she’s seen. When the Maestra, a young woman, offers to free Finn from his chains, she notices the mark on his arm of an eagle with a crown around its neck. Incarceron has become a living entity keeping watch over a society where the violent hold power and the citizens cling to legends of a world of stars and fresh air.įinn, a teenager who remembers little before coming to consciousness within the walls of the prison, allows himself to be tied to the rails of a train in order to entrap and rob members of the Civicry, a rival society inside Incarceron. The hope was that those who had more restrained and scientific minds would positively influence the inmates until life inside the prison evolved into utopia. Centuries ago, men created “Incarceron,” a separate world in which criminals were imprisoned with enlightened men.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher