From the Depths: Blue - The Last Days of Archopalasia

The blue tide is about reason, wisdom, and enlightenment. To learn and to understand. This novella is the last of the five for me. And one of the better ones.

We follow Sage Reen on a desperate quest to find a mythical place that supposedly had the power to heal all ills, to find a cure for his wife. What follows is a highlighting of what it means to be driven by knowledge, reason, and logic. It encompasses several philosophical ideas that makes you think about what does one life matter.

There's quite a bit of showcasing of just what it means to be living in the Ninth World. With cyphers, the Iron Wind, mutations, and almost-magical technologies all brought to the forefront. The plot's great, and the ending, while a cliffhanger of sorts does do a good job of giving a closure to the story.