The Breaking

The Breaking

This is a story of a sorcerer,a saint, and a city, and it began exactly one hundred and thirty years ago.

By all accounts, Melbourne in the 1890s was a strange place to be—flowers bloomed out of season; avenues of trees sprang to life overnight; there was a heatwave that nearly killed everyone and a gold rush that turned the poorest to millionaires in the twinkling of an eye.

Those who were there said the city exploded into a nexus of magic, drawing to it the strange and wonderful, the miraculous and terrifying.

The strangeness has never stopped—knights protect travelers from fairies; sin eaters walk the halls of cancer wards; spirits of suicide haunt the train lines; leaves gather wishes, and demons, priests, gods, alchemists, and ravens watch mankind.

Rumors abound how it all happened, theories from a ley line explosion to the innocent blood spilled by violent hands.

The only detail that everyone can agree on is that the Sorcerer of Albert Street is to blame for magic breaking.

And that it would take a miracle to fix it.