Hello, everyone! Its been a couple of months since the end of IoE, and as promised I'm posting an update now that my new project has enough content posted to serve as an introduction. If you've enjoyed my stories previously and would like to read more, please take a look at...

Not everyone gets a soul. The rise of industry and mechanization has sent the world's population booming upward, striving relentlessly for the fixed handful of souls that level armies and steer the fate of nations. The remnants of a crumbled empire fight in a grinding, bloody war against their ancient enemy.

Not everyone gets a soul, but Michael must - for he is the scion of a lord, and the soulless cannot hold such a title. For five years he has tried to tempt one of the souls freed by its vessel's death. Five years of pain and failure, earning only his father's contempt. At last, one more opportunity to earn his soul has come.

But not everyone gets a soul quite like his.

Read the first chapter here!