For centuries, the world has lived in a beautiful lie. They call it the Great Denial—a time of pretending that the ancient star-iron and the corruption it breeds have vanished into myth.

But in a small town of empty markets and smoldering forges, the silence is finally breaking. Kaelan, a wanderer carrying a blade that screams in the presence of rot, arrives to find a village paralyzed by fear and a local authority hiding a dark secret.