This is the story of a familiar but alien world, where sheer mountains and violent seas have separated mankind. A world where wars are fought by machines and engineers, and not by soldiers. A world where genetically-altered plants creep across the continent. A world where astrophysicists have opened a hole to the other side. A world where necromancers raise the dead with the power of medicine. This is the story of a world, in which errant ember that ran, and ran, until it sparked the fuse that would set the world on fire.