We follow the birds, we gaze at the stars and we measure the heavens to divine the paths of our fleeting lives.

In an endless sea of sand differs the Mud Whale, a floating Island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.

Chakuro is the archivist for the Mud Whale, southerner chronicling the lives and deaths of his people. As one of the short-lived Thymia weilders, he knows how time is limited and is determined to leave s better record than his predecessors...