Gravity is slowly vanishing across the continent. Objects drift toward the sky, one by one. Only the "Alchemist Train" remains unaffected, running on "stabilizer" fuel distilled from human emotion. It crosses floating continents in search of the source of gravity itself.
Nadia
Proud, restless, torn between reclaiming her birthright and destroying the thing inside her
An exiled princess with an anti-gravity core of unknown origin embedded in her body.
Oliver
Stoic, pragmatic, deeply uncomfortable with the fact that his engine runs on feelings
The train's engineer and the only person who can read the "emotional fuel gauge."
The Horologist
Enigmatic, gentle, speaks in riddles and seems to know the train's schedule before it does
A nameless mysterious passenger who only appears when the train crosses broken bridges.
The Masked Conductor
Formal, relentless, and possessive; speaks in the language of schedules, bargains, and obligations.
A mysterious figure who oversees the train carrying burdens abandoned by those who surrendered their weight. Its true identity and connection to the woman at the furnace remain unknown.
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Edrin Pell
Worn, lucid, quietly defiant; distrustful of promises that resemble orders, but determined to restore choice to the unheard.
Edrin once agreed to hold the continent’s fear only until its people could decide what to do with it. The heart-mechanism made her temporary consent permanent and used her as the continent’s mouth.
Tomas Venn
Quiet, practical, and determined to reclaim his own changed decision without surrendering his lamp to anyone else.
Tomas once surrendered a miner’s lamp to the heart’s bargain, then changed his mind before the mechanism preserved him and treated the original surrender as permanent.
Pella Arnes
Plainspoken, grieving, practical, unwilling to let grief define her present choices
Pella surrendered her millstone to the heart after her husband died because she wanted the mill’s work to stop; the heart preserved that decision as permanent.
Harn Vey
Honest, frightened of repeating other people’s choices, resistant to being hurried
Harn agreed to the heart’s bargain because everyone around him did, but the preserved mechanism never gave him room to determine whether that agreement was truly his.
Tava Ors
Decisive under immediate danger, protective, and honest about the limits of her authority
Tava kept watch from Veyr Reach’s belfry after the settlement’s original bell disappeared. She became the person who raised warnings when the fragment’s gravity began failing.
Vaska Renn
Steady, protective, severe under pressure, and unwilling to confuse rescue with ownership
Vaska maintained the warning lanterns of the Stair of Or after gravity began failing, teaching its residents to name separate supports while the source approached.
Sera Kett
Tired, guarded, and blunt, Sera speaks in practical sentences shaped by long responsibility. She distrusts grand promises and challenges assumptions directly, but her voice steadies when she is naming a choice she has made herself.
Sera kept the tower’s warning active after the roads opened and the fragment began to break apart. The source turned her voluntary duty into an assignment, treating her as the carrier of the tower’s signal.
Dema
Practical and direct, she speaks in short, concrete sentences and is careful to distinguish what she knows from what other people must decide for themselves.
Dema maintains a hand-cranked red warning lamp among the houses on the second fragment, using it to report that the lower stair has broken.
Tirra
Practical and guarded, Tirra speaks in plain, work-worn sentences and gives only the certainty she has; under pressure she holds to concrete requests rather than pretending to know what comes next.
Tirra was found in the sorting chamber with a brass tag and a signal lever, assigned by the source as a sorting attendant without remembered consent.