The Etherium Throne

The sky is falling. For Valerius Thorne, it's just another payday.
For a thousand years, humanity has clung to the floating remains of a broken world, terrified of the Maelstrom that waits below. Valerius Thorne doesn't care about legends or the "Titan" that supposedly sleeps in the core; he cares about star-iron and survival. As a scavenger in the smoke-choked Low-Swells, he's seen the best of the high-born fall to the mud, and he's always there to pick the bones.
But when Valerius pulls a d...