The world was changing for Zeahra and his fellow sorcerers. The Natural Philosophies and Engineers were creating devices and solutions to equal those of the mystical arts. Progress revealed fault lines in a once stable society. Insurrection and Rebellion had already rocked the state, but settlements restored the peace. Then the humans came. The new stars in the sky turned out to be ships, vast ships carrying unfathomable power. The people crewing them brought alien ideas and miraculous technology to a people already struggling with their own modernity. Would the center hold?
