The Starlight Engine
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Last published Sun, Jun 18, 2017
Thousands of years ago humanity rained down from the Shell like falling stars. Spread across the vast, hollow world of Inverse. It took many years for them to gather, and when they did war was the result. They fought for the orbiting islands, and control of the floating seas. They fought for every grain of food, and every sorcery. The last was what brought them together, and the first Mages appeared.
They built a city that would travel the twisting rivers and floating seas. A city that would be called, Arc. Now, nearly a thousand years after it's creation, the city of Arc carries an flourishing society upwards and downwards on the waters that feed Inverse. Nathan is the son of a Producer, the farming part of the utopia of Arc. A day like any other will reveal to him that not everything is as wonderful as it seems. A truth that will take him into the heart of the City of Light, and to another truth that will shatter it forever.
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