Plot
Girl Genius presents an alternate history "where the Industrial Revolution has escalated into an all-out war" due to the battles between "Sparks" – highly charismatic mad scientists with supernormal abilities in one or more sciences.
The main character, Agatha Heterodyne, at first seems to be nothing more than a struggling student at Transylvania Polygnostic University, but when Baron Klaus Wulfenbach and his son come to investigate irregularities at the university, a seemingly unrelated sequence of events leads to Agatha awakening to her family's genetic inheritance and their secrets. The people she meets as she flees the Baron will either help her or try to use her, but in the Wastelands of devastated Europe, trust can be hard to win.
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