As one might assume, this story does not take place in the world we all know, and a few of the wiser of us love. Instead it takes place in an imaginary land, within a country very much similar to our own Victorian Brittain. Now contrary to every conceivable construct of physics this is a land in which magical energy suffuses every aspect of daily life, charms serve to enhance the function of make-up, the trains that form the arteries of inter-city travel and commerce function on arcanely enhanced steam engines, Zepplins take to the sky carrying massive loads, held aloft despite every word of conventional reasoning that says they should fall like rocks. In armies healers tend to wounds that would mean certain death in this world and sorcerors cause bullets to pierce further and blades to bite deeper. It is a world of wonders. But no matter how far you run, politics are still politics, and people are always plotting and schemeing to get what they want, backs are stabbed, armoires are filled with skeletons, and there are few people interested in untangling the web of deceit, and it's a dangerous business at that. But still, there are those few. And the countless individuals intent to see that they don't succeed.

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