Set on two stamps of land they call the Copper Isles we meet our orphans at Mawton House. Life is good; peace and fun are all they have to worry about. But then a man they've never met, broken by grief, decides they aren't worth the space they take up. And so The Culling Project was born. He would rid the islands of the unclean and unworthy, leaving the peace and safety behind for those who deserve it more. That includes those he believes will one day fall under such a category. Little souls who haven't even realized the world has such bad in it yet. Now Mawton House is gone. Twelve years after the devastation left behind after a failed Culling Project, the man decides to try again. He's had time to think, time to let his feelings grow and mutate to create something far worse. But now our orphans are all grown up. They couldn't save those they'd already lost and they knew stopping him wouldn't bring them back, but if they sat back and let it happen, their survival would've been for nothing.