The Last Kingdom began as a classroom experiment in criminal procedure and evolved into a dark legal-political fable. Written by a criminology and law professor with a research background in organized crime and terrorism studies, the story explores authoritarian collapse, resistance, and survival through the lens of myth and memory. Developed with the help of AI as a creative tool and ElevenLabs, and drawing inspiration from Bill Willingham’s “Fables” comic and Telltale game’s “A Wolf Among Us,” this original work blends legal insight with storytelling to examine power, complicity, and the people caught in the gears of broken systems.