Plagued by misfortune all of his life, Chance, an alchemist living in the dregs of a luckless city, struggles just to maintain his laboratory. Alchemy is a dying craft, replaced by the obsession of the forward-thinking meritocracy for their clockwork mechanisms. But when his mentor unlocks the mysteries of the Aether, the very essence of the soul, Chance's days in obscurity are over. The world becomes a bit more volatile as eyes turn toward him, and one particular gentleman mechanist seeks to merge their discovery with his own. It is a struggle to safeguard secrets and earn the recognition they deserve, but at what cost? Full of discovery, desperation, and disaster, Aether Spark is a compelling first installment that shows just how far-reaching and destructive man's ambitions can be.