Nearly two years have passed since the Final Days. Etheirys remains at peace, the Scions have separated, and the nations they once protected have learned to survive without them. Izalith Shaw, the Raen Au Ra remembered as the Warrior of Light, continues adventuring as a Pictomancer. Yet fewer crises require her intervention, and she quietly struggles with a life in which nobody urgently needs her.
Scions Consulting is one of the most prestigious strategy firms in the city, known for taking on problems other companies quietly decide are impossible. Its Special Projects division gets the worst of them: collapsing accounts, hostile clients, botched launches, acquisitions on fire, executive scandals, and deadlines that should have been rejected on principle.