Brief Summary:

The story of sixteen year old orphan Mervinii Polliix begins in the Basq Empire, in the Citadel City of Acadia located on the Acadian Mountain range of Andross [Installation Rozaline].

Merv is one of many orphans owned by alchemist Alaric Milgrim who seeks to create powerful mages by the usage of necromancy. Alaric Milgrim fuses a crystalline heart of a dead mage to the body of Merv, which shatters Merv's soul, giving him 21 days to live.

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Merv must find a way to escape his master and survive.

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[The Citadel of Acadia]