In a world torn apart by war, the forces of the Mediterranean Union and the Nordic League clash. Automatons clash gears with the swords of knights, witches battle alchemists. The old faith of the Gods of Life battles the Church of the Quadrilogy. Gianno and Stezphan are two young people on opposite sides of the war, swept up in its currents, they find themselves facing the same destiny and struggle.
Inheriting her secretive grandfather's research on the Art of Alchemy, Taylor Hebert must progress upon the Magnum Opus and achieve the Philosopher's Stone, all the while exploring what it means to be an alchemist and what it means to be a hero.