This world is a hauntingly beautiful take on the key parts of humanity, making horrific but beautiful characters… Setting this story in an alternative 1890s America…

𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 “𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬” :

• 𝐀𝐥𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐳𝐞𝐝) : The ultra wealthy hoard immortality elixirs and poisons, thus the Ashcroft family own the Patent on death— a legal monopoly on resurrection research.

Factories secretly dump alchemical waste creating “ghoul zones”… where poor mutate into half living creatures…

• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧... : Sèances sometimes work, ghosts haunt stock exchanges… Meaning delusion and reality can intertwine in this world…

• 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐲 : High society obsess over mortality… while indulging in opium affairs, and blood sports disguised as charity galas.