Magic defines everything. Status. Power. Worth.
That's what everyone believes deep inside, even if they never truly admit to themselves, but they fall back on it when they fail, so they can blame and perpetuate that status quo.
None believes this more than the royals and none more than Riven, who was raised by his elitist grandfather on these values.
Being born with one of the most destructive powers in the world "Ancestral Flame", along with the royal blood that gave him not only notoriety and massive power comparable to an elf at birth, he flaunted his superiority over everyone, to the detriment of others but his parents and siblings weren't like him they were kind people untouched or rebellious to the acts & ways of other of nobility and they tried to change him but couldn't until one day he was humbled by a commoner boy with unnaturally strong scholarship boy a his school named Ryuji.
After being beaten for the first time in his life, his worldview was rocked, and after many months of trying to get back at Ryuji and the people closest to him, mostly to his own detriment and loss of people and things around him, the death of his family, which he caused, soon shattered him.
Soon named "The Failed Royal" who had an outburst that caused the deaths of his family in his sleep, the people and his world ostracized him, which was dark, filled with memories his family desperately tried to teach him.
Until he met a cruel yet beautiful elf who was as explosive and arrogant as he once was, seeing a sign of his family in his sleep, he devotes his time to helping her change her ways before karma spins its wheels again.
Yet he can't but... Well lets find out