Before the Great War, battles were fought and won with magic. Ina world where magic courses through the veins of every singlehuman being, a single mage could take on an army of thousands,and a single family could conquer an empire. But even magic couldnot hold back the tides of science and industry, and modern warfarewas born. Since then, the imperial powers of Russia and Great Britainhave begun amassing weapons of both magic and science in anarms race against each other. A tenuous peace has remained thanksto the efforts of Bastion, a global diplomatic organization of magesdedicated to maintaining order across the world.It is eighteen-year-old Kibo Kozlov’s dream to join Bastion, just likehis father before him. But some dreams aren’t meant to be, asKibo had never been able to control the weave of magic. He had nearlygiven up hope, that is until he stumbled upon a bizarre artifact that mightchange the course of history—both his and the world's.