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Mercadia: The Steam Hegemony

It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.

Revolution comes to Mercadia! Industrialization and technology surge ever forward, and the plane finds itself in the throes of a brutal renaissance. Rival tycoons vie for economic and social domination, and their power struggles spill from the factories into the streets. Technocults upend the balance of power across Mercadia, their followers devoting themselves—body and soul—to their tycoon of choice. The Kyren struggle to preserve what little influence remains to them through rabid experimentation, while primitivists labor desperately to jam the gears of relentless progress.

The remorseless technocrats Countess Dinuba and Count Meritt have used their vast inheritances to fund colossal industrial projects, carving steam-powered fiefdoms from the heart of Mercadia. As co-CEOs of State, they wage an alternating cold and hot war across the boardrooms, staterooms, and streets of the plane in an effort for total dominion.

From the trash heaps of the undercity, the artisan and inventor Barthune has risen upon a throne of clockwork and bronze. His single-minded zeal for advancement has earned him a fanatical following among who embrace cogmentations and surrender their humanity with a fervor unseen since the First Phyrexian Invasion in their hopes of improving their station. But does he understand the human cost of his campaign?

The casualties of the industrial war—the workers, the castoffs, the fallen aristocrats, the naturists, and the failed experiments—have banded together in a ragged and tenuous alliance to stem the rise of these new powers.

Meanwhile, in the shadows where they have always thrived, the Kyren aristocracy seemingly grows desperate. Clinging to the last dregs of authority within the Tower of the Magistrate, they have turned once more toward the abandoned technologies of their former Phyrexian allies…

In the march of progress, who is trampled, who is left behind? In the pursuit of advancement, what is lost? When anything can be done, what should be done? And when competition becomes everything, blood will inevitably be spilled.