Lostopia

In the soot-choked, clockwork metropolis of Lostopia, the gears of industrial progress grind against a secret, celestial heritage. Generations ago, refugees from the twin stars of Aethelgard and Marselgard crashed into this world, their divine bloodlines diluting into the human population. Now, that dormant power is waking up in the form of "Glitches"—youths whose bodies and minds defy the laws of physics. Oakley, a Shifter who cannot control his cellular integrity; Oscar, a blacksmith who whispers to iron; Ollie, a librarian who sees the mathematical probabilities of every possible future; and Elara, a daughter of the high winds who navigates the atmospheric currents of the sky. But they are being hunted. High Inquisitor Valerius Vane and his brother Kaelen view these children as a biological fuel source to be harvested for the Iron Spire. Meanwhile, the Marselgardian Siphons—shadowy, non-Euclidean entities—have arrived to drink the resonance of the Aethelgardian bloodlines to reignite their own dead sun. As the four "Glitches" find each other, their individual powers begin to harmonize into a Golden-Black Chord, a frequency capable of rewriting the destiny of Lostopia. This is a story of evolution versus industry, a cosmic war fought in the narrow alleyways and grand libraries of a dying steampunk world, where the only hope for survival lies in embracing the very "freakishness" the world seeks to extinguish.

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