Vespertine Blue

The king is dead, the country is on the brink of a class war, and the one responsible wants nothing to do with it. Longstanding vituperative relations between the magically talented and untalented come to a head when magicians stage a pseudo-coup. Vespertine, a reclusive magician distinguished for her development of alchemy, heads the new oligarchical regime going by the name of The Concilium. She plans to reconcile the broiling enmity for both magicians and non-magicians with the prospect of eq