Out of the Cinders

Idele was just a traveling merchant, staying for a night in one of the most populated cities in the nation, when her life was flipped upside down. In her heart, she felt something was wrong when she saw the smoke billowing into the air, but she couldn't have imagined what came next.

Mali was just an apprentice herbalist, venturing to the capitol elven city to meet her newly assigned mentor, when everything she'd ever known changed. She knew she felt different, but she didn't expect to become a pawn of the gods.

In a world where magic has been gone for so long that some considered it a myth, the sudden return of it to only a select few unknowing citizens sends the nations into chaos, and it becomes every man for himself.