A meticulous scholar obsessed with achieving perfection through dark magic has left a trail of disappeared victims across Victorian London. As he prepares his final, most powerful ritual, a rational detective follows an impossible pattern of evidence that challenges everything he believes about reality. When their paths collide, logic confronts the supernatural in a desperate race to stop a man who has discovered that reality itself can be reshaped—at a terrible cost. A psychological dark fantasy where obsession, horror, and investigation intertwine in the shadowy streets of a city hiding ancient secrets.

Lydian, a skilled archivist surviving under a monetised welfare system, struggles to maintain her independence while paying a steep social and magical price. When a city-wide Arcane collapse exposes the failure of the Doctrine of Autonomy, she and a grassroots practitioner, Nara, ignite a Sympathy-based mutual-aid movement that rewrites the city’s rules and replaces shame with shared care.