The year is 2048.
The Tiered Nations are a consumer society reduced to their stomachs.
Here, a denizen's prestige is measured by their greed and consequently, their expanding waistline.
Hadryn and his best friend Thaddius belong to the military branch, and they arrive at the morgue to investigate an unusual death: a limb-hewn corpse which appears to have been mauled when animals are no longer of this world.
Meat products, as with all foods, are grown in laboratories and manufactured as cubed food.
Before Hadryn and Thaddius can further their examination of the body, two letters arrive for Hadryn.
One is from a woman, Oshin Rysing, who is Hadryn's long-time epistolary paramour, living outside the Tiered Nations in a rebel colony which resists the gluttonous ways of the city, and the second letter is from his father to notify Hadryn that Hadryn will be wedded to an unknown man, as is customary for young women of marrying age.
Hadryn attends his engagement banquet with the intention of confronting his father, but strange occurrences of people who seem to be infected with a terrible disease leading to self-cannibalism arise, and a creature out of nightmares emerges.
Hadryn ventures out of the Tiered Nations for answers and to seek out Oshin.
There, he meets Ardyce, a dragon, who tells him of gods, legends, and an age-old battle between her people and the mysterious race known as Wyrms.
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