The Tides of Aeternum
In a school where magic is divided by discipline, one girl dares to cross the lines fate drew for her.
Born of sea and land, Maris Thalor has never truly belonged to either. Pressured to follow in her healer mother's footsteps and enroll in the esteemed College of Vitalis and Warding Magic, Maris makes a different choice - one that stuns her family and reshapes her destiny. She joins the College of Warshaping and Aerial Command, where dragon riders and battlecasters forge weapons from fire and will.
But as she learns to master her waterbound powers in the skies above the ancient spires of Academia Arcanum Aeternum, Maris begins to sense a darker current beneath the school's hallowed traditions. Students are disappearing. Forbidden spells echo through the halls. And the school's revered director hides a secret that could unravel the fabric of magic itself.
Together with a diverse group of students - a necromancer bound to shadows, a potion prodigy with soft-spoken genius, an adventurous elemental, a law-bound scholar of divine magic, a brilliant illusionist, and a gentle healer named Kaori - Maris must uncover a sinister plot that threatens to sacrifice the students to demonic forces in the name of power.
To save the academy, Maris must embrace every part of who she is - not what others want her to be. Because in this world, choice is the greatest magic of all.