There’s a problem, people lost psi (the super ability to do things). A guy named Taemon, who thought he lost psi like everybody else, realizes he does have it when he is trying to find his mom and dad. When he finds his mom, his dad is not there. He thinks his dad might be in danger based on what his mom says, so he goes where they were told as children not to go to get his dad back. The place is trying to go to is called the Republic, that settlement and David’s city (where he lives) used to be the same thing. But, David, their ancestor, shunned the Republic’s.

In the book Archon, Taemon is a bot and the main character. Taemon's mother is in a coma and Taemon's father is missing. Taemon travels to save his father from the Republik (a city across a mountain away from Deliverance) with Amy. Even though Taemon took away psi (the ability to move objects with your mind) from Deliverance, there is still psi in places of the world and the Republik calls these people that possess it "archons". Taemon trains a group of archons that are good with psi, but if he fails he will be thrown in a dungeon.