Ashter is a fictitious world that was inhabited by those who can wield magic and those who can’t. The premise of the book focuses around the idea that power corrupts. The ones with magic were easily corrupted by it and enslaved the powerless. Eventually the magic wielders were overthrown and defeated by their slaves. The story takes place decades after the uprising, the world is entering an industrial revolution but magical relics left from the past still cause havoc with their corrupting nature.