The Seven Paths [MOVED]
Centuries ago, the heavens tore apart in a cataclysm known as The Breaking of the Firmament, shattering the boundary between thought and power.
Ideologies became reality, and Paths known as ideological magic bound to belief, were born.
The world of Lioren has never healed...
Among the ruined dominions stands the Eshu, a cursed people with blue skin, horns, and glowing red eyes, feared as devils by the outside world.
Once mighty, the Breaking left them with a terrible affliction: instead of wielding normal magic, they absorb life and mana uncontrollably from those around them.
However, Eshus' born of nobility could use the power of paths, unlike the regular ones who could only use magic by absorbing from other magical species.
Hated, isolated, and hunted beyond their collapsing island, the Eshu cling to survival through rigid noble dominance and Path-bound hierarchies.
Into this fragile world is born a child unlike any other.
Sam, once an ordinary man who died a hero’s death in another world, awakens in the body of an Eshu infant. But the heavens mark his birth with an impossible omen: seven-colored lightning, foretelling that he will awaken not one, but seven Paths.
This phenomenon was thought impossible even for the greatest nobles. To the frightened Eshu nobility, he is either their salvation… or their destruction. To Sam, who remembers his old life and keeps it secret, he is just trying to make sense of baby horns, weird customs, and a future he never asked for.
Meanwhile, his childhood friend Wes, who died alongside him, is reborn far from the cursed island in the royal palace of the kingdom of Velenia, where humans and druids live in harmony.
As the son of a mighty human warrior king and an elven queen, Wes inherits both sword and sorcery in abundance. A prodigy unlike any seen in generations, he awakens his Magical Core at the age of three, shaking the world with his potential. Raised on the histories of Lioren, he grows up believing the Eshu to be nothing but devilish monsters destined for purging.
Two friends, reborn on opposite sides of destiny...
One as a feared anomaly in a race doomed to collapse.
One as a celebrated genius destined to lead the charge against that very race.
[ Path Awakened: Stillness ]
