In 2022, angels (Engel) descended upon Earth.
They were not benevolent creatures.
Toppling buildings, leveling cities, exterminating humanity. This was the angels' behavioral repertoire (Ethogram), their characteristic pattern of action. Man or child, elderly or woman, anyone they encountered was killed by the angels' flapping wings.
Human technology was forced back to the early nineteenth-century age of steam.
In the winter of 2024, the angels suddenly vanished, leaving behind a colossal structure suspended in the sky: the “Throne of Heaven” (Der Thron des Himmels). It is said that aging angels dwell within the throne.
What exactly are the angels? Why did they come to Earth? And what is their goal?
Four hundred years later, a boy pilots a bird-shaped steam plane (D.V.V) and sets out on a journey to uncover the truth...
*Steampunk / retrofuturism
*The prologue is in first person, while the main story is in third person. Read on without worry.
