Queen Mary has been talking to her husband every night since he died a year ago. Ewww. Lord Martin thinks a year is enough. He has invited two neighboring Kings to join him in paying suit to Mary. She must choose one of them. Argent has an army at the border. Rostov has a flying ship hovering over the city. Martin is married to Mary’s older sister. Characters include a cat, a dancing bear, and a witch.
It is March 1870 in the Steam and Sorcery world of Castle Falkenstein. The glitterati of New Europa are in Paris for the opening of the French Season, and you have been invited to the Grand Vernal Ball. Nobles and gentry, both human and Faerie, will mingle with sorcerers, scientists, artists and demimondaines. Valuable contacts will be made tonight, and perhaps an Assignation or two. But some have a darker agenda. Steam Age costumes welcome.