When eccentric explorer, Lady Vicenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees a way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving artefacts is preferable to the abomination let behind.
But not everyone is willing to let the empire collapse, and the adventurers are soon drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war.
The Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall...