It is the age of steam in the world of Arcanus. War has broken out between the Empire of Tannish and the Kingdom of Altza over what would be a trivial squabble. Battles are fought with not just swords and guns and heavy steam-powered armors, but magic and ancient technology. But not all as it seems with this war, and your mission is no different.
You are in the employ of the Tannishian Imperial Legion. You may be a soldier tasked with this special mission, or an outside agent employed to insure its success. Your mission: to take a strange prisoner with unusual magical powers to the Ancient Ruins near the Altza capital so it can be opened. What is within those ruins, or who this mysterious prisoner is, or why even this war is being fought in the first place? All will be revealed... Eventually.