For a thousand years since the destruction of civilizations aptly named the Burning the Order of the Broken Ring has sought out and destroyed heretical technology. From their foundation at the Spires deep in the Imperial Capital of New York they dispacth reavers to seek out heresy and retrieve it, sometimes ending the lives of people who possess it. Now with the Empire of Amerada on the brink of war with the Collective and an unseen mysterious force undermining the Order's directive a young magistrate discovers a secret. Now the subject of that secret a young reaver named Victor Ravchinko along with Teesa Anhasa the magistrate must discover why the Order needs his bloodline so badly. While Victor searches for answers Jacob searches for purpose. Jacob a tribesman of the Peoples of the Many Tribes of the Burn must travel the glass sands the vast wastland the blashpemers call the Burn in search of Mother's Will. Two young men are about to find out how much power they have over the coming next apocolypse. More importantly what do they intend to do with that power?