It's the summer festival in the elvish kingdom of Cypress. A month of drama, debauchery, and divine devotion - and half-elf Irving's arrested on the first day.They intend to escape their sentence before it starts, hoping their legendary prophet of a father never finds out. At least until a risky opportunity to change their fate comes along: help a priestess (of a goddess Irving once shunned) smuggle sacred Cypress devices into the human realm, and earn their ticket out.Irving's accidentally made themselves a pawn in a divine plot - an ancient, possibly-world-ending one. But even in Cypress, where the elves have long protected their realm from the human pantheon, Irving's far from the only one pulled into their plans:Rhoheme, a cursed inventor whose survival depends on outwitting the gods in their own realm;Eirjatal, a firestarter sorcerer haunted by his bloody history with the very god he's determined to protect Cypress from - alone;And Vyriseh, a queen with musical magic hoping to play the game better than them all.