Born in a world whose problems have long since been solved by magic, Godwin Bergman longs for chaos. Believing there must be some ultimate, exciting truth beyond the mundanity of everyday life, he enlists the help of the deadpan witch Marigold, hoping that magic will guide him to adventure. Howev...

It's the far future! Far, far, future. So far that the galaxy has had multiple apocalypses that sent civilization back to the stone age, only for people to rebuild and expand outward into the stars yet again! It is now the Third Starward Era, and Reina Leyline, a dragoon for hire, has been hired...