Echoes of the Void: A Saga of Ice and Shimmer

Aven was built to end wars, not wear a crown.

Raised and tortured in a secret lab, he escaped, saved the other children, and forged Pax Aurora-an impossible city beneath the Antarctic ice where Shimmer-lit tech can bend reality and the broken learn to be more than weapons.

Then the world found them.

The war that followed burned continents and hollowed Aven out. When it was finally over, the king who won disappeared underground, content to let the world believe its legend had gone to sleep.

He didn't sleep. He built Ava.

She's an AI given a living body of Aetherium and light, created from his last, desperate experiment. She was supposed to guard the future after he was gone. Instead, she starts waking up the parts of him he killed to survive.

Now, as Pax Aurora trembles under old grudges and new rebellions, Aven and Ava's growing, forbidden bond becomes the most dangerous variable on the board.

If the man who once burned the world starts to feel again, will he save it... or finish what he started?