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A once-in-a-generation prodigy in both alchemy and the far more obscure field of the arcane arts, Rana was the pride of her well-to-do family, when she gained acceptance into Blythir College, excelling in both practical design and theory, she was on the verge of realizing her magnum opus, a unique style of blending gunplay and combat magic with remarkable potential when her entire world fell out from under her.
Immediate expulsion, based on trumped-up charges of theft of both intellectual and physical property, ruined her life, her reputation, and her work all in an instant. With no recourse to defend herself against the well-crafted charges, she fled, a wanted criminal, determined to find out, not only who was behind this, but also to clear her name. In the absence of academics, her keen mind focused on the task of ferreting out her hidden enemies, following a trail of money and influence to a disreputable financier by the name of Ambrost Mugland, an outright bastard who had somehow come across her research and for whatever reason, deemed it in his best interest to sabotage.
His mistake. Rich and powerful as he might be, the bastard didn’t realize that he now had an enemy that was infinitely smarter than her was, and fueled by anger and desperation to destroy the man who’d ruined her future.