Elias Vice, a supposed nobody from the backwater town of Acreton, has already written his destiny, and it ends with him building the greatest business empire Sailor's Rise has ever known. But to get there, Elias will need to turn a pocketful of relics into a company worth millions. The Rise's caste-like business and political system stratifies power and access in the dock-ringed merchant republic, and Elias is starting with neither. And yet he is not the nobody he first believes, as Elias's c...

A mind-bending gaslamp mystery. Think Inception meets The Night Circus. AuroraΓÇÖs greatest entrepreneur has been murdered, and only the truth will save Alchemist Ortez from the gallows. Facing a heated courtroom of strangers, he must now recall the events that brought him here as a fellow alchemist probes his memory. Such is the job of alchemists: administering elixirs in order to see into the minds of men. Their dreams. Their nightmares. Their secrets. But while everyone believes him guilty...

ATTENTION: This an old version of this story. Please visit the new and improved (and regularly updated) version here. Elias Vice, a supposed nobody from the backwater town of Acreton, has already written his destiny, and it ends with him building the greatest business empire Sailor’s Rise has ever known.  But to get there, Elias will need to turn a pocketful of relics into a company worth millions. The Rise’s caste-like business and political system stratifies power and access in the doc...