Your Rewards Have Arrived, Miss Witch

(Victoria Under the Execution Threshold)

Think you got lucky with your birth?

Just look at Ronan Winter: heir to a barony, coal mine owner, rumored lover of a princess,

Beckland's honorary mayor, who holds sway over both the underworld and the respectable world, philanthropist for the Church of the Mother of Abundance, landlord of an estate in the Dream Marsh, candidate of the Lord of the Invisible, owner of the Flying Helena, exotic pet breeder, recipient of the queen's commendation, lamplighter in the depths of the Gray Fog, master of the Dream Marsh…

Sounds pretty good, right?

But this is what Beckland, where Ronan lives, is like:

Supernatural creatures hibernate in the mine tunnels. One turn in their sleep can crush a whole group of miners.

In union elections, a gang's gun is more reliable than a ballot.

The powerful, armed with supernatural abilities, control other people's fates as they please.

What Ronan inherited was a ticket to becoming a god.

Welcome to the first stop: Beckland.