In the land of Irillia, where steam power is in its infancy, a young man named Owin just wanted to relax for a few days before beginning his adult life. Instead, an unforeseen event transpires, and he becomes shunned by family and friends and must leave everything behind. Owin finds himself living at the bottom of a canyon amidst a colony of Azoreans, men and women stricken with a disfiguring disease and gifted with incredible abilities. He must accept his new life and band together with the colony to help them stand against the Unbroken Church, who are bent on ridding Irillia of all Azorean scum. Forever.