Within the Pale Provinces, entrepreneurs industrialise cursed and haunted spaces. Expelling coal demons from mines, clearing out a railway overgrown with fae vines, retrieving a piece of machinery stolen by mischievous goblins.

Entrepreneurs can be either citizens of the Pale Provinces (with access to its commodities and technologies) or sorcerers (able to perform rituals, shapeshift and cast other spells). In the world of progress, magic users are outcasts. They usually take on the form of forest beasts and resort to travelling the farmlands. This does not mean however that magic is safe from exploitation by capitalist forces.

Some sorcerers use their powers to sabotage railroads and factories, in hopes of turning the Empire to anarchy, some create terrifying magitech contraptions to compete for their place in the industrial race.

In the Pale Provinces, magic is performed through complex rituals that require knowledge (reading about a ritual in a book or learning it through another sorcerer), ingredients (rare items that must be gathered beforehand) and time (usually one long night). The more powerful a ritual, the more knowledge, ingredients and time it will require. Magic items such as staffs, masks, or cauldrons can improve the odds of a successful ritual.

Technology is roughly equivalent to turn of the century period in European powers such as France or the UK. In the Pale Provinces, the farther away you are from other technology, the more likely your device is to malfunction. So in big cities and towns, there is no issue with firing weapons or riding trains. However out in the country, everything jams, clogs and falls apart.