Others time-travel and are gifted rivers and mountains; he time-travels and is gifted debt. A modern corporate slave time-traveled to ancient times, became marginalized, and became the lord of a desolate border. Self-reliant, he united a group of marginalized people regarded by the world as "eccentrics," "good-for-nothings," and "freaks," used their respective despised skills to reclaim land and farm, and defend their homeland, and from the desperate situation of three copper coins and no grain to fill their stomachs, established a homeland where everyone has food to eat, a house to live in, and dignity.