Aeon of Ashes and Ambition
Arlan Veythorn awakens as a child in a world not his own, his mind fractured by memories of machinery and smoke. Reborn into a disgraced noble family, he inherits a crumbling estate, a father drowning in shame, and a name that invites scorn. In Aethyria, power is dictated by Aetheric Resonance—a hereditary magic that his family has lost.
But Arlan remembers things he shouldn’t: gears and equations, whispers of a past life. When he crafts a Frostward Lantern. To survive, he must navigate a world where even seeming allies have hidden agendas.
Yet the deeper he delves into Aethyria’s secrets, the more he questions his own rebirth.
Aeon of Ashes and Ambition is a sprawling, slow-burn epic where every choice has consequences, and nothing—not magic, not memory, not even death—is what it seems.
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For readers who crave
- A protagonist clawing from rags to power in a cutthroat, magic-steeped world.
- Mysteries where the world itself is the antagonist.
- Progression through ingenuity, alliances, and morally gray gambles.
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No chosen ones. No prophecies. Just a man, a spark of defiance, and the ashes of ambition.
