By 2600 the world has come to ruin. Flooded seas cover most land, forcing humans into massive airship colonies called Arks, though it’s only for those that had the means to afford the arks or important status. As if that isn’t bad enough, the constant pollution of earth has led the ozone layer to be replaced by a massive sea of smog and toxicity called the Veil covers the entire planet, blocking all light and plunging those below into a constant darkness. When Ren falls from his university ark in the stratosphere and through the Veil he expects to find a world of savage monsters and fiends. Instead, he discovers thriving communities between the sunless seas of the Veil. Making a bond with an injured bird, he journeys into uncertainty at a nearby port town before falling further into a world of pirates and criminals called the Parade .Ren will meet holy men, assassins, very angry cooks, and a captain with a mysterious past while trying to learn what life above the Veil never taught him, in the process finding a world of humanity under the cut throat survival and greed of the corporatized world above. Falling in with the crew of the airship Pigeon, Ren becomes embroiled in a scheme to free one of their crew-mates from a corporate labor ark while learning that the companies running things above the Veil might not be the paragons of morality they claim