London

It is the year 1879. It has been over three hundred years since the age of magic ended with the thirty-year war. It is a time of unprecedented achievement. Men fly through the skies in balloons and travel overland by train twenty times faster than a horse! For the people of Europe, there would appear to be no limit to their achievements, but at what cost?

Welcome to the Alternative Earth, a world of crushing industry and soulless exploitation, a land of stark contrasts and an era of vast change. With change comes revolution and upset. Such an age usually produces great heroes and villains, some to fight against the new order, others to fight for it.

Fantastic magic and syeam powered technology aside, the world of Alternative Earth shares much with our own world of the 19th century, the divide between the decadence of the rich and the exploitation of the poor being a good example. The real life 19th century was a melting pot of change. It was a time when the old regime and centuries of tradition were gradually giving way a new modern world, and so it is in Alternative Earth. But sometimes the two differ. For example, in this world magic and mediums are very real – the real world is, of course, less… interesting.