Two of the most powerful states on the continent fight for the planet’s most valuable resource—and it isn’t noble metals or precious stones; it’s the source of energy. Steam carriages, mills, warships, and even time—everything can be controlled by an essence of the human soul.
Only the Craftsmen can remelt the soul into energy, so the fate of the entire Empire depends on them.
Young Radjinvald is busy fighting for freedom from his father, a despot, and searching for a bloodthirsty maniac— and he doesn’t yet know what important role he will have to play in the game of the powerful of this world…