The second part of the steampunk saga : Tales of a Mechanical World
In a nineteenth-century world powered by steam power, amid towering flying ships and majestic cities with a thousand chimneys, not all is as it seems. Behind the shiny veneer of splendor and progress lurks a far darker reality... Emerik, a young aspiring Engineer on his way to the far eastern city of Bridee to join the Mechanical Guild, is only the first of an eclectic group of characters who will also be joined by Baldasor, a corrupt politician who flees for his life, and Athyna, an opportunistic thief who unknowingly ends up at the center of a plot. Committed to following their personal desires and ambitions, all of them will be pushed out of their routines to confront a world that will gradually become more and more dangerous, hostile, and violent. Amid conflicting goals, ancient empires, lighthearted pirates, mighty exoskeletons, corruption, deception, love, and revenge, each will have to choose sides in the great confrontation that is about to begin and that threatens to change everything.