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Dun Aviut

Long before kingdoms rose and history found its voice, Aresedal endured a cataclysm so devastating that all records of it were scorched from the world. The War of the Black Tide swept in from the far eastern sea—an invasion of shadow, storm-born beasts, or something far stranger. No two stories agree on what marched from the waves… only that it nearly ended all life. Salvation came in the form of a nameless figure remembered only as the First Protector, who waded into the roaring tides and lifted a wall of radiant power across the horizon. The empire calls it the Vaelorian Barrier—the greatest miracle ever gifted to mankind. A thousand years later, the world has forgotten the war. The Barrier stands distant and unseen. And on the lonely eastern coast, the Tower of Enclosure endures storms, centuries, and silence. Arden Vaelorian, heir to a lineage bound to the tower’s deepest secrets, grew up in the shadow of mysteries no one would explain: the sealed chambers beneath the earth, the pale elders fading into ritual and fear, and the quiet tragedies that claimed his family one by one. Trained in ancient arts older than empires, he alone knows how to read the signs others ignore. And the signs have returned. The coast trembles. The air grows heavy. Something shifts in the deep. While the empire laughs off old legends, Arden hears what his ancestors feared most— A whisper rising from the east. A whisper of stirring power.. A whisper of awakening...
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