In a world rebuilding after global mechanized war, chaos and cultural tensions rule.

City-states like Blightcross prosper under dictatorships built upon oil production. Refugees flock towards the city-state to find function in the substantial oil refineries. The black blood of Blightcross is certainly changing vihs-draaf, the magic of the Ehzeri people, but magic hasn’t completely disappeared…yet.

For fugitive soldier and thief Capra Jorassian, Blightcross can be an opportunity to earn enough cash on her behalf freedom..Read More approximately Blightcross Stealing an enchanted painting in the dictator’s collection is nothing at all new. But the basic heist gets complicated quickly when Capra’s youth friend shows up, bent on getting her back again for courtroom martial. Then her eccentric company, the creator of the painting, is certainly kidnapped, tossing Capra into a struggle for the success of Blightcross, with only her enemies as allies.

Till Sevari, the mad dictator of Blightcross, wants the secrets from the painting, and he’ll do anything to get them. But when the dangerous forces within the painting spiral out of his control, Capra is the only one who can defeat them – by selecting a power just as dangerous, hidden beneath the lies of her own culture…