Falkir yearns for his father's affections, and his God's. He hopes to finally win his father's approval with the unveiling of his masterpiece and by his success in the coming-of-age rite. Falkir's father hopes to realise his own ambitions when one of the Six Kingdoms falls, and the Moot of Kings is called.
Wensted, Falkir's childhood friend, returns from the heretical wizarding order of Navn after eight long years and steals the Holy Tetrahedra before any of these aims can be realised. Falkir finds himself implicated in the plot and is forced to go on the run with Wensted and the outcasted Noctua. With origins that reach into Falkir and Wensted's childhood, the quest insatiably draws Falkir in while unravelling what he holds as true about his father and his Gods. With the Keeper of the Tetrahedra and the temples own secret police in pursuit, Falkir must stay alive long enough to clear his name and return the holy relic to his father.
Welcome to the world of The Clockwork Meridian - the reciprocal drive that gives lifeforce to plant and animal, and ensures time itself goes on cycling. Music is magic, and in the Six Kingdoms that hold a Holy Tetrahedra, they play six unique genres of music and pridefully hold their own Symphonies to be superior. Common folk may hear the music played before them, but only the sensitive can truly hear the interconnected arrangement known as the Grand Symphony, only the sensitive can touch the lines of Meridian and allow the magic to flow through them.
