STORY

Fifty years after the Acrid Anomaly ravaged the world, a chance encounter between a fugitive prince seeking to clear his name and a young saint in search of answers to her fractured past may hold the key to ending the Anomaly‘s inexorable tide once and for all.

Characters

Lorène

Rafael

Eléna

Orland

Félix

Volker

THE WORLD

Anomalium is set in a belle èpoque inspired world left reeling in the wake of the Acrid Anomaly, a mysterious cataclysmic event that wiped out half the population before suddenly falling dormant.

When signs of the Acrid's reemergence appear forty years later, the countries of Angevaine and Navasturia are left with little choice but to allocate all remaining resources towards a desperate last-ditch effort: Project Hypérion.

Spearheaded by three visionary founders—Fréderic Augustin, his sister Annette, and her husband Dante—Hypérion was a ten-year long marvel of architecture and engineering made possible by the latchkey discovery of æther and the advent of æther-engines to harness it.

When signs of the Acrid's reemergence appear forty years later, the countries of Angevaine and Navasturia are left with little choice but to allocate all remaining resources towards a desperate last-ditch effort: Project Hypérion.

Spearheaded by three visionary founders—Fréderic Augustin, his sister Annette, and her husband Dante—Hypérion was a marvel of architecture and engineering only made possible by the latchkey discovery of rarified-air known as æther and the advent of æther-engines to harness it.

As Hypérion neared its completion, survivors from both countries flocked to the shield-city and the prospect of refuge within its crystalline dome. Until the day Fréderic suddenly seized control, proclaimed Hypérion a sovereign kingdom, and closed its gates to the world.

Now fate has forced Lorène and Rafael into the cross-fire of political factions and unseen forces vying for control, with little choice but to learn to work together if they hope to survive and bring an end to the Acrid… if only it were so easy.

As Hypérion neared its completion, survivors from both countries flocked to the shield-city and the prospect of refuge within its crystalline dome. Until the day Fréderic suddenly seized control, proclaimed Hypérion a sovereign kingdom, and closed its gates to the world.

Now fate has forced Lorène and Rafael into the cross-fire of political factions and unseen forces vying for control, with little choice but to learn to work together if they hope to survive and bring an end to the Acrid… if only it were so easy.