The Times are Changing
In many parts of the world, day to day existence is much unchanged from how folks lived centuries ago. Fey trickery, prowling monsters, and roaming brigands pose as great a threat as ever. Priests and druids offer guidance, and it’s possible to live all one’s entire years without seeing a steam engine.
Yet though this is a land born from magic, a revolution of ironclad industry is reshaping nations. Railroads slice through the countryside, driving horrors from their wilderness lairs to new urban labyrinths. Heroes and scoundrels stroll smoggy streets in top hats and tails, battling with pistols or enchanted arcane fusils. Printing presses publish philosophical revolutions and conspiratorial ramblings, inspiring fresh frights to prowl the shadows between gas-lights under skies darkened by soot and steam.
Every nation is at an inflection point, every ideology vying for influence. Your characters serve in the Royal Homeland Constabulary of the nation of Risur, protecting the country and its citizens from foreign threats lurking within its borders. During missions of investigation, espionage, and assassination, your duty will be to root out hostile spies and pursue international conspiracies. As you learn more of your homeland’s own secrets, however, your loyalties may be tested, may even be turned, and you may find that it is you whose hand controls the gears of the turning age.
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