Jessie Wilson, left behind on Earth after a research project gone wrong, takes it upon himself to protect those who cannot protect themselves throughout the modern, evil wastelands dotting the globe, starting in Old Chicago.
After finding abandoned Nano-Tech from one of IronClad's many research branches, Jessie, rather un-originally, gives himself the title of Ironclad, or
Jessie 'Ironclad' Wilson.
As the Nano-Tech adapted to the new user, the user adapted to it, forming a bond with the armor that could never be broken.
Through the corrupted, tech riddled streets of a extremely unfamiliar Chicago, secret groups lie in hopes of befriending, fighting, worshipping, surviving the many robotic entities that will always be advancing, evolving, and changing like the war-machines they are.
And so will Jessie.
Lian snuck out of the imperial palace and exposed the village healer to be a fraud and a devil-worshipper. Cursed by the spurned fire god, Huogwai, and disgraced and cast out by the royal family, Lian set out with her manservant Emiru to the kingdom of fire to rid her of the curse of uncontrollable flames for a chance to regain her claim to the throne. But being a fire disciple meant she was a practitioner of the forbidden arts. For those that hunt her kind, the game had just started.