She awakens to find herself sealed within a stone sarcophagus, delirious she fights to break out, desperately starved of air she starts to fall unconscious only to be released from the tomb into the bright lights and loud music of a circus stage.

She staggers from the arena and through a dark city completely disoriented, she is set upon by a rowdy bunch of thugs but makes quick work of them with her bonewood staff.

Karigan no longer recognizes the city - an industrial revolution is underway, with gas lighting, steam engines, factories belching smoke, cotton mills run on slave labor and curious animatronic law enforcers.

He is captured and taken to be presented to the Emperor as Eletians were believed to be extinct having been hunted and killed during the fall of Sacoridia nearly 200 years ago.

They also explain that Arhys, a young girl the professor employs as a maid is the last living descendant of King Zachary and that she is unaware of her royal bloodline.

In the depths of the palace, Cade is shown a woman, known as The Witch, she has been mutilated and tortured for centuries by the emperor's preferred inner circle, he is warned that should he not cooperate this will be Karigan's fate.

All hell breaks loose as the witch, once free, is returned to full power as Yolande the sea goddess, who floods the country in revenge for her imprisonment.