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The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. And when the emperor refuses to recognize his daughter, Lin, as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering bone shard magic, but such power carries a great cost, for herself and her people.