SashaMcallister
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All Nova (19) wants is a perfect life, or at least a quiet life away from the violent, deranged and narcissistic masses that make up the industrial steam-age city of Eden. The only thing in the way is a hefty lack of funds, so she sets out with her lovely, bubbly, wisecracking friend and fellow huntress Lux (19) to sell a trio of exotic beasts on the black market.
After delivering the contraband to Vexia, a beautiful, mysterious and unhinged woman who views people as playthings, Nova and Lux stumble through an anomaly taking them back 500 years to the Age of the Clerics. Terrified their interactions with the past will erase everything they love via the butterfly effect, the girls believe they have no choice but to restore history to its original course—a horrific task that requires hunting down and killing a man whose life they had just saved, and rescuing Kza, history’s cruelest, yet surprisingly charming, mass murderer and genius.
The corrupt, manipulative clerics cast Nova and Lux into a pit for their crimes. Wounded, destitute and feeling guilty for allowing a massacre to transpire, Nova promises herself that should she survive, she would purge Eden of its evils instead of merely isolating herself from them, with the ultimate goal of building a perfect world.
The girls escape through another time-rift into the post-apocalyptic future. They learn that the Second Sun, the celestial object worshiped for centuries as God Himself, destroyed the world, reducing it to a toxic wasteland. Survivors belong to one of two groups: one: a fanatical cult led by Malachi, a cold, otherworldly man bent on driving mankind to extinction to undo his ancient mistake of letting humans with freewill multiply, and two: the refugees struggling to survive the onslaught. Keeping her promise to herself, when Nova discovers the refugee leader is as deranged as the cultists, she kills him and leads the refugees in her own campaign against Malachi. The ensuing battles prove catastrophic with nearly all of humanity killed off, shattering the girls’ dream of building a perfect world from the ashes.
Surrounded by the smoldering ruins of their failure, Nova and Lux learn from Malachi that the Second Sun was not God, but a weapon of Kza’s from the Age of the Clerics. The girls reason that if they go back in time and kill him, they can prevent the horrific events of the future from ever happening, reigniting hope. Not long after, Nova comes face to face with Kza and shoots him, but to her bewilderment, the critically wounded Kza smiles and forgives her, then escapes.
With unwavering determination, Nova and Lux take a more direct approach to save mankind by seeking to destroy the Second Sun itself. However, Nova reaches a turning point when the very people she’s trying to protect betray and savagely murder the ever-lovable and innocent Lux. The only person worth saving is dead. Were it possible, Nova would trade all the world’s lives for Lux’s. In a crusade of lethal justice, she teams up with Kza and Malachi on their quest to burn the world, using them as pawns, and fights her way to the Second Sun. The price of perfection is burning the imperfect.
After a brutal trail of death and destruction, all the puzzle pieces come together and Nova has a soul-churning realization: The future cannot be changed. Everything she did to alter history was what caused the original events to transpire, and it was she who destroyed the world via the Second Sun.
In the end, Nova learns the secrets behind the time-rifts and retrieves a duplicate version of Lux, delightful as ever, from before she died. To the girls’ surprise, Kza proves to be an honorable man whose notorious reputation stemmed only from the clerics’ slander. With mankind destroyed and the Second Sun in their control, the three set out to build a perfect world.
After delivering the contraband to Vexia, a beautiful, mysterious and unhinged woman who views people as playthings, Nova and Lux stumble through an anomaly taking them back 500 years to the Age of the Clerics. Terrified their interactions with the past will erase everything they love via the butterfly effect, the girls believe they have no choice but to restore history to its original course—a horrific task that requires hunting down and killing a man whose life they had just saved, and rescuing Kza, history’s cruelest, yet surprisingly charming, mass murderer and genius.
The corrupt, manipulative clerics cast Nova and Lux into a pit for their crimes. Wounded, destitute and feeling guilty for allowing a massacre to transpire, Nova promises herself that should she survive, she would purge Eden of its evils instead of merely isolating herself from them, with the ultimate goal of building a perfect world.
The girls escape through another time-rift into the post-apocalyptic future. They learn that the Second Sun, the celestial object worshiped for centuries as God Himself, destroyed the world, reducing it to a toxic wasteland. Survivors belong to one of two groups: one: a fanatical cult led by Malachi, a cold, otherworldly man bent on driving mankind to extinction to undo his ancient mistake of letting humans with freewill multiply, and two: the refugees struggling to survive the onslaught. Keeping her promise to herself, when Nova discovers the refugee leader is as deranged as the cultists, she kills him and leads the refugees in her own campaign against Malachi. The ensuing battles prove catastrophic with nearly all of humanity killed off, shattering the girls’ dream of building a perfect world from the ashes.
Surrounded by the smoldering ruins of their failure, Nova and Lux learn from Malachi that the Second Sun was not God, but a weapon of Kza’s from the Age of the Clerics. The girls reason that if they go back in time and kill him, they can prevent the horrific events of the future from ever happening, reigniting hope. Not long after, Nova comes face to face with Kza and shoots him, but to her bewilderment, the critically wounded Kza smiles and forgives her, then escapes.
With unwavering determination, Nova and Lux take a more direct approach to save mankind by seeking to destroy the Second Sun itself. However, Nova reaches a turning point when the very people she’s trying to protect betray and savagely murder the ever-lovable and innocent Lux. The only person worth saving is dead. Were it possible, Nova would trade all the world’s lives for Lux’s. In a crusade of lethal justice, she teams up with Kza and Malachi on their quest to burn the world, using them as pawns, and fights her way to the Second Sun. The price of perfection is burning the imperfect.
After a brutal trail of death and destruction, all the puzzle pieces come together and Nova has a soul-churning realization: The future cannot be changed. Everything she did to alter history was what caused the original events to transpire, and it was she who destroyed the world via the Second Sun.
In the end, Nova learns the secrets behind the time-rifts and retrieves a duplicate version of Lux, delightful as ever, from before she died. To the girls’ surprise, Kza proves to be an honorable man whose notorious reputation stemmed only from the clerics’ slander. With mankind destroyed and the Second Sun in their control, the three set out to build a perfect world.