Timothy Westbury was supposed to be travelling west to an early retirement, leaving behind a lifetime of blood feuds and bad mistakes. Instead, he makes a rash promise to a desperate girl with a pretty face and a false name.
To help her, he will need to enlist the help of revolutionary Dwarves, Orcish dentists, and mercenary airships. What follows will decide the future an Empire, and risk plunging the world into a war the like of which it has never known…