Science is the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world. In the Year 531, in the Deep Blue, magic is a clearly delineated and defined science, the science of a universal physical framework that has been encoded into the laws of the world as surely as if it were a simulation. Five hundred years ago, the ruling Government of Halton made a deal (Work Order) with God to introduce a Unified Nexus Theory as a unifying framework to solidify the laws of science, and provide them with a means to actualise by universal means near any effect upon the world. It was defined as magic, for separation purposes, for a great plan they have conceived to truly master the system they have created. In the years hence, 'mages' have been born, with the unique dual traits of being able to perceive and conceptualise the Word of the Gods. Through such, magic has been developed, heavily regulated by Halton's system, via rewriting in the Word the Gods the Lagrangian (Lagrangian density) for the Unified Nexus Theory and powering the subsequent mandala in order to locally renegotiate the laws of physics to actualise 'magical' effect upon the world.  Recently, a Fourth Work Order has been negotiated by Halton with God regarding Iphigenia. She has been brought into the world, her fate already planned and calculated.  In her old life, she was sacrificed, thrown off a cliff for unpalatibility. She hasn't yet much memory of her past, but slowly, that past as a gunsmith slowly surfaces. But that past is still gone. It may have shaped her, but obviously, the present world is more important. Reborn into a new world of mages, leviathans, and blue, she will carve out for herself something of a life that she never lived. Halton has a plan to make their control over reality complete, a plan that will take twenty years to actualise. In the meantime, Iphigenia attempts to discover herself, her future, her past, with the intermittent interference of Beryl, a machine Power.   Note: The cover is Vincent Van Gogh's Pair of Shoes (June, 1895, Auvers-sur-Oise) - it is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN What to Expect: An extremely detailed physics-based magic system, as well as a fictional (theoretical?) unified nexus theory that simplifies physics into a (obviously) unified framework school life lots of magic no harem, unless you mean like a platonic friend group weekly uploads (at least one a week)