It is the dawn of 1899, and traditions that have served the Awakened for a hundred generations are slowly being eroded by waves of progress. For now, it is a philosophical debate between what has been and what could be, but lines are being drawn and rhetoric and blades are being honed to a razor's edge. Amidst the din of this increasingly uncivil debate, ancient horrors predate upon Awakened and Sleeper alike all while a Sixth Tower rises unseen in the Abyss.