Chronicles of the Aether Weavers

Kaelen, an orphan haunted by the loss of his family to a rampaging beast, lives a meager existence in the desolate Ashfall Wastes. His one solace is a hidden grimoire, granting him the forbidden power of Aether Weaving - the ability to manipulate the raw magical currents of the world. But this gift comes with a curse: a parasitic link to the very creatures he seeks to destroy, slowly corrupting his soul. When a new, more monstrous threat emerges, threatening to consume the last vestiges of humanity, Kaelen must choose: succumb to the growing darkness within or wield his power, risking his sanity, to protect a world that has only ever offered him pain. The fate of the realms rests on a boy teetering on the brink of monstrosity.