When you visit our website, if you give your consent, we will use cookies to allow us to collect data for aggregated statistics to improve our service and remember your choice for future visits. Cookie Policy & Privacy Policy
Dear Reader, we use the permissions associated with cookies to keep our website running smoothly and to provide you with personalized content that better meets your needs and ensure the best reading experience. At any time, you can change your permissions for the cookie settings below.
If you would like to learn more about our Cookie, you can click on Privacy Policy.
VIIIGuildmaster Ven Adage of the Clockmakers and Timecounters walked into the echoing stone chamber of the Inner Wheel. Each step on the hard flags jarred through his knees and into his hips. As they always did these days. He was getting old. Still he, of all the guildmasters, had to accept the fact. Had to accept the passage of time. He had lived his life by the ticking of clocks, by the careful, deliberate measurement of each passing second. He could have no complaint time was catching up with him. And he only wanted to live long enough to see their long plans realized. That would suffice. Oh, he would never see the final end of the Clockwork War of course. That was a distant prospect. But he might see the decisive battle won. The turning point reached; the moment when the clock started