The Aurelian Reach spans five hundred miles of once-unified territory now divided into fractured provinces. Seven years after the Aurora Fracture unmade the capital and its God-Emperor, the land struggles against magical instability and political decay. High magic saturates the environment, causing reality to fray at the edges while the stars themselves seem to change their positions nightly. Warlords, merchant councils, and freed laborers now vie for control over the skeletal remains of a fallen golden age.