Viktor Brasswell learned early that the Empire values men only while they’re useful. Once a brilliant naval engineer, he watched his family die in a boiler explosion the Empire tried to hide. Discarded and betrayed, he survived by rebuilding himself—flesh replaced with brass, and pain sharpened into purpose.

The undercity of Gearford became his proving ground. He mastered fear, smuggling, and automatons, turning broken men into tools and crushing anyone who crossed him. Every betrayal and loss stripped away his humanity, forging “Grim” into a name whispered with dread.

Now he rules the Brass Lantern Syndicate with cold precision. The city is one vast machine, and he decides which cogs get crushed. Quiet, calculated, and merciless, he listens to the screams of the broken—and to him, that sound means the engine is working.

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