The Severed Flame

Daeira is a woman with many faces.
A daughter of elven nobility, a diplomat, a spy, a mage.

She treats conversations as dissections, intimacy as a weapon, emotions as opportunities and morality as a flexible concept.

When she ventures into the Dragon Empire to steal an uncovered relic, she arrives expecting politics, suspicion, and the cold hostility of a species that has every reason to detest her kind.

What she does not expect is General Kaelith Azharyon- the emperor's feared commander, a man carved from terrifying discipline, secrets, and barely restrained violence. A man who commits atrocities without remorse, rules through terror and genuinely believes mercy causes weakness.

He hates what she represents. She hates what he represents. He distrusts her. She distrusts him. He wants nothing to do with her. She wants nothing to do with him.

But ancient relics rarely take such things into consideration.

And when dreams start bleeding into waking life, scholars start dying and forgotten memories start resurfacing in fragments, the elven mage and the dragonborn general find they have to work together to uncover the mystery surrounding the ancient item.

But the deeper they dig, the more questions arise. Why does the relic feel familiar? Why do dreams feel like memories? And why do his dragon and her daimon insist the other feels like home?

In a world where souls can be split, memories stolen, and love turned into a weapon, nothing is at is seems.