THE SUNDERED MARCHES are not safe or simple; they're alive.
Revolution is in the air. Not an uprising of liberty alone, but also of industry, finance, agriculture, and society, each change forking into three others like an unending chain of lightning.
The empire demands saltpeter and gold, but takes blood and steel too. The rebellion asks pint-sized pipsqueaks to strap rockets to their back and fly; many never come back. The moon bleeds, the pen is mightier than the pistol, and wandering witches live on leather and lightning.
The soil of Alovis, from the lowest point of Lanva Crater to the peaks of the Meteoras and the Vencht Mountains, is riven with good and evil. What few roots find purchase in the prairie soil drink deep of both; life chases power like a lonely weed turns to sunlight, even if only to see another day's dawn.
What people and empires do for that light, the lies they tell themselves over it, and how the very best and worst of those lies spring up from truths – that is what the Sundered Marches, and every single nation of Alovis, is about. It's the story of every skyship, it shadows bandits, buckaroos, and banshees, and it sings with each note in a cosmofonist's score.
There's a war on, but there's a world still living around it, too. Hold on to your knickers, friends; it's going to be one wild ride.
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The below articles are translated from Volkenvencht, originally appearing in the Persh 1, 1831 edition of Die Seherin – about three years into the twenty-two-year reign of the Red Death. Regrettably, tables, charts and other figures have not been reproduced due to extensive damage in extant archival copies.
GENTLE READER,
As we contemplate a fourth year of the Red Death, its spread throughout the Vencht Mountains continues unimpeded by the Imperial Hexenbauern. Although it has yet to reach as far west as Schongen Hill, many prominent wythes have withdrawn from the city in expectation of the worst. The widely-anticipated want of labor may prove of equal concern to reduced demand or capital in the course of years. Securities for rolling stock enterprises, even those most parochial and of little note in the Imperial City, have sharply depreciated in value and are expected to continue to do so.