The Emerald Mark pulses on my right foot-a glowing reminder that I was never meant to live an ordinary life. Fifty years ago, my grandmother Eleanor Vanca stepped foot on Xylos, a colossal, forbidden planet no human was meant to touch. She came back changed-brimming with raw power, haunted by secrets, and carrying a destiny that now runs through my blood. Now, that destiny is mine. In Aethelgard, a hidden world laced into Earth's very core, we live cloaked in magic and mystery-safe from human eyes, but never from danger. Here, every shadow hums with ancient energy, and every whisper carries the weight of prophecy. As the magic beneath my skin surges stronger, the world around me begins to unravel. A dark monument rises, a choice awaits, and the fate of all magic teeters on the edge of war. I am Cora Thorne, the one marked by legacy, bound to a prophecy I never asked for. And if I fail... We lose everything.