Meet the enigmatic immortal Axel Rathenius; the mournful Hecate Rain; Nicodemus Rham, keeper of Lucifer's Light on Devil's Rocks; the antiquary Ragan Barling; the necromantically-inclined Madam Vashti Savage; Eirene Magdelana, the morpheomorphist who lives on Snowspur Mountain, communing with the winds; Myrica Mavor, whose Gallery exhibits the sacred and the profane; physician Fion Commonal; funeral director Emmaus Partibus; and all the other artists living on the island of Mnemosyne in the Everlasting Empire, 2000 years after the birth of the Divine Caesar.