The God Machine

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Gift giving crystals that power golden prosthesis and implants, long forgotten gods that speak through them, and porcelain children born from clockwork.

In the 19th century, the city of London floats hundreds of feet above the ground, tethered to the floor below by thin ribbons of steel and iron; The untouchable gilded home of the royal family, their army, and their God machine.

The city only referred to as The Lower lays beneath, firmly seated on the earth, caked in its dirt and the festering stench of revolt. This is home to the masses, including Fiore Ferro, the sickly son of a blacksmith who is the bearer of more secrets than he realised.

Having lived the majority of his 20 years of life hidden away from the outside world, Fiore measures every day by how much freedom he finds within it - a glimpse of the sky, a chatter of voices or a gentle brush of wind on his cheek. When the secret his father had been working so hard to keep in the dark creeps in to the light, Fiore is thrown in to a hurricane of rebellion and betrayal, eventually he's left wondering if he wasn't better off living life in measured doses.