In an industrialising country where magic and science contributed lies Greywren, the town where a young street thief lives: Noctua, or the night owl. who's about to develop something that has never been seen in recorded history.

In a harsh word, roughly like our own in technology, but in culture and structures more like the medieval, where magic is attuned to specific animals, and those mages, have soulfused minds, where the human soul fused with the represented animal. Chase is one such mage, Who, for reasons known only to him, wanders far from the Nest, the mountain where the shadow ravens live. and know is chasing a prophecy that has existed since the Rift event thousands of years ago.

Sable Vaidsen has nothing left, No family, no place of residence, no permanent income. Yet, hope endures because of something he can do. Alchemy, the ability to draw from the Etheria, Using the Etheria stone, power beyond that of mortal man awaits him...