Ibeos

Two millennia after a war so devastating it sealed the world behind magical barriers, the nations of Ibeos finally wake up. Cities reopen, old powers stretch, and Cadon becomes the heart of the celebration-a festival of light and color meant to mark the return of peace. But underneath the music, there are cracks. Relics of impossible power begin to resurface. Rumors of another war slip through the crowd. And the people pulling the strings aren't the ones standing on the stage.

In the middle of this uneasy rebirth, a group of very different people are forced together by fate, politics, and bad timing: a fiery swordsman-mage who still thinks heroism is about strength, a mute shinobi carrying a hydra yokai and heavy secrets, a disciplined fire elemental whose control hides a deep, unhealed guilt, an enby golem who was built to serve but wonders if they could be more than their design, and a demon-kin detective whose chaos and charm make him look unreliable right up until the moment it matters. None of them were supposed to be the one. Now all of them have to be.

What begins as a simple involvement in Greca's festival politics becomes something far bigger when they uncover the truth: someone is moving to shatter the fragile peace before it can settle. At the center of it stands François, the halfling gravity mage ruling Southia, a man with the power to pull armies, cities-even nations-into his orbit. His vision of "order" would crush Ibeos before it can heal, and the only thing standing in his way is a found family that barely trusts itself yet.