Humanity once flourished, its golden age spanning the Earth in gleaming towers and boundless promise. Then came the War of Unmaking, and with it, the end of everything. A cataclysm known as the Severing shattered the world in a heartbeat, erasing most of civilization and plunging humankind into a new dark age. Now, what remains clings to life in Aurelia, the last great city. A decaying, ringed fortress where crumbling spires claw at a polluted sky, light sputters like dying embers, and survival is the only law. Order is an illusion, and beyond the city walls, the wasteland spreads, hostile, barren, and filled with horrors that defy reason. For Andy Rowan, survival is all he’s ever known. Orphaned and overlooked, he moves through Aurelia’s shadows, navigating criminal factions, cybernetic warlords, and those willing to kill for control of what’s left. But when he uncovers a secret buried beneath the city, tied to the Severing, the wasteland, and the fate of humanity, Andy is pulled into a conflict far greater than himself. With war looming and Aurelia crumbling, he must confront a terrifying truth: the world isn’t just broken, it’s still breaking. And unless he acts, there may be nothing left to save.