Conduit of Aethelburg

Details

In the sprawling, soot-stained metropolis of Aethelburg, capital of the Aethelian Dominion, Kaelen is but a whisper in the clamor—a humble message runner navigating the labyrinthine alleys and grimy thoroughfares. To the Imperial Archons and the mechanists who champion steel and steam, magic is a forgotten myth, a relic of a primitive past. Yet, within Kaelen flows a secret more profound and dangerous than any arcane grimoire: he is a conduit, an unwitting vessel for the world’s slumbering primal energies, a wellspring of raw power believed long extinct. When shadows stretch longer in Aethelburg's underbelly, and whispers of forgotten rituals begin to resurface, Kaelen finds his carefully constructed anonymity crumbling. Uncontrolled bursts of arcane force erupt in moments of stress, threatening to expose him to a world that would condemn him as an anomaly, or worse, weaponize his gifts. As a malevolent force from the empire's forgotten history stirs, seeking to reclaim the very energies Kaelen unknowingly wields, he must navigate a city that fears what it cannot explain, unravel the mysteries of his own lineage, and master the dangerous power coursing through him before both he and Aethelburg are consumed by the awakening darkness.