The underground metropolis of Underwood, with its colonies, will swallow and regurgitate anyone. A completely closed world with no sky overhead. No one knows where the exit is: tunnels and caves around are teeming with monsters. This has been going on for a long time.
Magic, clan society, and a kingdom of power under a formal Republic. All of it is where Nik goes—but he has his own problems and the main question is brewing: “How do you survive when you carry a tragic past on your shoulders?”