Knights of Salucia

During a burgeoning age of steam, steel, and new physics-based magic the paths of an invading empire, a brother destined to be a knight, a prince who harvests souls, a detective hot on a serial killer's trail, a princess who hears the song of God, a girl raised to be a weapon struggling to control her awesome power, a young dock-rat with a strange new ability, and a dirt-poor musician with an autistic friend all collide as they find themselves embroiled in a clockwork of destinies ticking towards events which will change the world forever.

Wayran knows his strange dreams are visions into the future and that Mannford's machines are not yet done with humanity. The keys to understanding all their fates lie within the madman's journal he found in the Wastes. However, none of that will matter if he and his brother Matoh cannot clear their names after the mysterious catastrophe during the academy's initiation ceremony.

The High King Ronaston is dead, but his daughter, Echinni, survived the cull and performed a miracle, bringing someone back from the dead. She finds herself as the new High Queen of the Nine Nations, yet her reign may be short as the Kutsal Empire has taken the Narrows, a key stronghold in Salucia, and an even greater power, Kali, the god-machine, has awoken and destroyed Labran. It is up to the new champions of the Nine Nations to find a way to save them all. Yet each of our heroes has problems of their own.