Introduction: A world that grows smaller with every passing year. Growing tensions and conflict of every flavor. Advancements that change the world with every new invention. The greater powers of Regnum are leaving behind an age of culture for an age of industry. Great beasts fall and Sovereigns rise, disrupting the established order and beginning wars anew. Those who fell behind in technology and power are displaced or enslaved.Only one continent is left truly unexplored by the great nations of the time. The colonies on Vanax hold promise for those looking to start a new life, and spell conflict for the native people inhabiting it. The colonist are a hardy and independent people, having come to claim a stake in this unclaimed area, far from the haughty nobles and bureaucrats who dominate their homelands.Nobles like Harper.Harper did not want to come to Vanax, but she didn't have much choice in the matter. She was cast out, left with little but her hard earned skills and her rapier. Her lack of talent in her desired Domains would make it much more difficult to reclaim her place and achieve her lofty ambitions. Despite this, she would make her own way, and her eventual rise to power would be all the sweeter for it.(Temporary Cover)...