The Ember That Was Cast Away

They cast him out. Called him weak. Left him to die. In the elite mage kingdom of Aetheros, strength is everything—and Kael Everryn had none. On the day of his Awakening, while others summoned fire, storms, and steel, Kael stood silent. Magicless. Powerless. A disgrace to his bloodline. Branded a "Null" and exiled to the Outlands, he was thrown into a land crawling with beasts, ghosts, and things that hunger for lost souls. But death didn’t take him. Something else did. Deep beneath the ice, Kael discovers Soulfire—a long-buried magic born from rage, pain, and memory. This isn’t the magic of circles and chants. This is emotion forged into power. And he’s done being silent. Now, the boy they threw away walks with fire in his veins and fury in his chest. Aetheros is on the edge of war. And Kael Everryn is coming back—not for mercy. But for reckoning. He was their shame. He’ll become their storm.