A Canticle of Steam

In the brass-laced city of Varn's Keep, where ancient laws grind beneath the mortars of alchemy, a string of self-inflicted deaths points to something far more sinister than madness. When Detective Elvic Brahms is assigned a routine interrogation, he suspects political meddling in his department. But as more information surfaces, Brahms is pulled into a dying city’s deepest rot: forbidden cults, silent gods, and rituals long erased from official history.

As state pressure mounts and whispers of occult resurgence bubble beneath bureaucratic calm, Brahms must navigate a labyrinth of failing memory, corrupted rituals, and alchemical decay.

In a world where machines remember more than people do, and gods have long since stopped answering, some prayers still reach something.

And something is starting to answer back.