Blood Red

In some Worlds, Society depends on Technology to expand its horizons. In the Victorian world of the Wonder, Magic is the leading light. It powers an Empire through an Industrial Revolution towards boundless possibilities, including the invasion and colonization of any neighbors who may have reserves of Magic themselves.
But, the Wonder has been plumbed before, by past civilizations, and may have caused their collapse. Can a disparate group of accidental heroes made up of burnt-out dragoons, cynical mercenaries, a college professor and a nurse-come-landlady from an Imperial backwater colony take on an entire Empire to save a world?