Momoa created the series with Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett, who, per a press release, also shares native Hawaiian heritage. The Aquaman star also wrote and produced the series, which marks a first for him on television.

It revolves around Jason Momoa's character of a war chief who fights to bring together the various tribes so that they have a better chance of survival, as a unified group, when the Western colonisers arrive on their shores in force.