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In Eldermist, a city of swirling fog and flickering gaslight, where arcane runes and clanking steam engines hum with equal menace, Detective Evelyn Blackwood takes on a case that could crack its very foundations. Alaric Thornwood—renowned alchemist, maker of wonders, and keeper of dangerous secrets—lies dead in his workshop, slumped over shattered glass and scattered parchments.