A Dawn of Stars and Shadows
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In Aerithya, where magic is but an echo of the past, Elara Starflare survives as a hunter, tending to a father consumed by drink and a sister lost in a world of her own imagination.
During an attack by the Hoztgar-creatures born of the Abyss-she becomes lost in long-forgotten ruins, where she discovers an artifact that awakens within her a power once believed to be extinct.
Upon learning that the beasts have taken her family, she sets out on a journey that will shatter everything she thought she knew about her world... and about herself.
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