Second world. The river city of Ashfen, where duelling is licensed, taxed, and watched from balconies by people who bet on it.

• Graphic violence, permanent nerve damage, one amputation on the page
• The death of a lover; the death of a student
• Alcohol dependence; self-destructive training
• Desire between adults; sex cuts away at the door
• Institutional cowardice, a mentor's hundred-year lie
• No slurs written out; the city's contempt for unlicensed foreigners shows as tax and paperwork

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.