LASTBORN: Book 1

In most regions, a mage with three elemental affinities would be hailed as a prodigy. In Ellaria, five is simply the norm.

Every child awakens. Every young mage discovers their elements and their place in society.

Everyone-except Aiden.

At twenty-five, Aiden remains the only unawakened individual in a town filled with natural-born geniuses. Branded as an anomaly and pitied as a failure, he has spent his entire life living as a silent outsider in a world built around powers he does not possess. To him, magic is something that exists everywhere-except within himself.

Desperate for answers and tired of being the only exception in a town filled with geniuses, Aiden enters the Ellarian Game-the only game Ellaria has to offer. It is meant to be his final gamble, a chance to force an awakening and finally become what he was always expected to be.

Instead, the trials reveal something far more unsettling. Fragments of forgotten knowledge begin to point toward a truth that no one has ever spoken of openly.

Now, Aiden is forced to confront a possibility he has never considered: that he was never meant to awaken in the same way as everyone else.

Because the answer to why he has no elements may lie not in what he lacks... but in what he truly is.

And whatever that truth may be, it has been waiting for him in the Ellarian Game all along.