Synopsis: Veritilly

Two men - Engineers for the State - have just finished designing their nation’s finest airship - The Capricious. In what should have been their crowning moment - the first launching at their nation’s capital - however, the sky is suddenly cast into a haze. In a fiery rain, the city is decimated by an unforeseen power. In an attack by their neighboring country, one seemingly without provoke, it becomes apparent that a new type of warfare has emerged - one ruled by Veritilly gas.

Caldon White, the man responsible for keeping the royal family in check reveals himself as a traitor, whisking one of the men, Perin Doraller, with him in some convoluted act of kind-heartedness: in exchange for the engineer's life, the young man must act as a traitor to his own country, as well. However, things are not as they seem when it comes to how traitorous White really is, and it soon becomes apparent that larger plans are in store.

On the opposing front, Aletrude Borbon is caught in the maelstrom of fire, pulled into the sewers beneath the city square by a young woman who tends to his wounds. When he awakens, he finds himself aboard a battleship unlike any he's seen before - and the woman who saved him is revealed to be no other than Emilia Yondeshire, the daughter of the enemy country's top general.

In a whirl of events, the two men find themselves on opposite sides of a bloody war, through both manipulation and truth. As new facts come into light about the nature of this Veritilly gas, each country's innocence comes into question, as does the stem of the war itself. With neither man certain as to which side is correct, each is twisted toward a role that will eventually decide the fates of countless millions. A story of love, espionage, war, and magic, either side could potentially be the in victor a battle that might not be as one-sided as both claim.

(A semi-steampunk, Victorian-esque adventure with a lot of harrumph... It's less about the war than the people who must find what they believe in in order to take sides... as well as a lot of air travel.)