An indifferent god sits high above the clouds, gazing coldly down at the mortal world. Tailless crawlers whisper to each other in the gap between winter and spring, while a top-hatted octopus demon plays its flute in the icy sea. The steam engine has only just kindled the light of civilization. Swordsmanship clashes with sorcery, alchemical guns and cannons join sailing ships in sounding the call of death, and secret societies and churches of true gods pursue and evade one another. A great age is beginning: the age of ocean voyages, exploration, and geographic discovery! There are sweeping epics and sinister, devious schemes. Civilization conquers savagery? No, there is only savagery and greater savagery!
Aiven awakens in a small coastal city. Rising as the descendant of a fallen noble house, he steps ever deeper into the heart of the maelstrom, until he claims the miraculous crown at the pinnacle of the supernatural.
