Elara grows up in exile after her aristocratic father dumps her in a darkened transit tunnel for allegedly failing a magical evaluation. Unbeknownst to her kin, her immense spiritual energy actually destroyed the diagnostic gauge. Sheltered by a mysterious theater patron, she spends eighteen years refining her lethal gifts in the shadows.
Returning under dark glasses, Elara infiltrates the Ashcroft estate to back her overlooked younger sibling against corrupt siblings and a treacherous foster sister. When biomechanical monsters threaten the metropolis, she unmasks her empire and shields the city against a sinister syndicate bent on universal destruction.
