currency book

There''''s magic in the world; aether permeates everything. It''''s in the air, oceans, and underground, and it gives everyone fantastical powers.A fox-like monster capable of turning its own body boneless and altering the air around, making it thick as jelly? Aye.A four-legged taran barrelling toward you horns first– wait! Are there two tarans? Nuh-uh – the beast''''s simply using its echo ability.In fact, everyone has one – a magical trick up their sleeve. Everyone except humans, that is.Incapable of doing any magic whatsoever, humans learned how to survive in the world infested with monsters. They conquered steam, gunpowder, and, more recently, the very aether itself. Not as magic, no, but as fuel. They figured out how to extract, process, and burn it. So what if monsters go berserk when they sense the fallout? That''''s just the price of convenience.