The Awakening: At Verdant Academy
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Last published Fri, Sep 19, 2025
At Verdant Academy, a prestigious haven for advanced magical study, final-year student Noelle Garrison is drawn into a web of ancient secrets and forbidden knowledge. Two new professors-Gregory Gwydion, master of extinct magical creatures, and Merzhin Dragoon, historian of the Old Religion-bring with them an unsettling presence and whispers of a past long buried.
As Noelle's dreams turn prophetic and her research uncovers fragments of lost history, she begins to suspect that Gwydion and Dragoon are more than they claim. The Old Religion-wild, elemental, and dangerously powerful-is stirring again, and so are the creatures bound to it.
What begins as a lesson in forgotten magic soon becomes a harrowing path toward an awakening that could change the magical world forever.
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