A magical university in a steampunk town in peril
Transportation powered by steam-powered woodpeckers. An elusive assassin who specializes in his colleagues in the industry. A magical neighborhood of gears, steel flowers and suspicious steam blasts. A narrow neighbourhood full of student societies, ugly gargoyles and hideouts of escaped chimeras. And of course the cook, who used to be a poisoner. All this and much more is the unique colour of Tir Erath, a city famous for its University.
Rianet, nicknamed Carmina, is enjoying her studies here to the full. She belongs to the hunters and her bestiary is full of morkodlakes, uniceras with golden horn and red-eyed dragons with scales on their shoulders. Her friend Elenis hasn't been so lucky with the Department of Discovery and has been flirting with search crystals - artifacts that have been on the list of banned items for many years.
As the deadline for their undergraduate projects approaches and Elenis and Carmina zigzag between school punishments, shadows from the distant past loom over the University, threatening to engulf it forever.