Gears of Revolution

500 AOV

Steam and soot darken the skies above the city of Flint, and winds sweeping across its majestic harbour blow the choking products of industrial forges into the fey rainforests that dot its knife-toothed mountains. Since the earliest ages when the people of Risur founded this city, they feared the capricious beings that hid in those fog-shrouded peaks, but now as the march of progress and the demands of national defence turn Flint into a garden for artifice and technology, the old faiths and rituals that kept the lurkers of the woods at bay are being abandoned.   The Unseen Court, the Great Hunt, and the many spirits of the land long ago conquered by Risur’s kings no longer receive tribute, but they cannot enter these new cities of steam and steel to demand their tithe. The impoverished workers who huddle in factory slums fear monsters of a different breed, shadowy children of this new urban labyrinth. Even their modern religions have no defences against these fiends.   Times are turning. The Skyseers – Risur’s folk prophets since their homelands birth – witness omens in the starry wheels of heaven, and they warn a new age is nigh. But what they cannot forsee, hidden beyond the steam and soot of the night sky, is the face of this coming era, the spirit of the next age.