Dead awakes on an autopsy table, unable to piece together the puzzle of his past life and subsequent death. Traveling with a ghost as his sole companion across a bleak cityscape beset on all sides by jagged mountains and crowded with the machines of progress, Dead must seek out the answers he craves while suppressing an insatiable urge to murder those around him. Meanwhile Ivan Steward must struggle to hold his own position as regent while protecting his children from the nobility and his own exiled siblings. Drawn into the service of the city's powerful elite, Locke - an unlucky thief in love with a prostitute, tries to shake his addictions and retire before age and luck turn on him, only to discover that darker beings exist under the shadow of an industrialised world. Follow these stories and more across a city where science and mystery meet in a pre-apocalyptic world.