Craig_Beckham

Jake is the firstborn in his family, and he is about to undertake the challenge of a lifetime. Along with fifty other 'first-born' students, he must take Feldspar Academy's mysterious exit exam. 

He will have to design a new world; full of wonder and promise, where the only limit will be his imagination. 

The pressure is crippling; he alone holds power over where his family and friends will live out the rest of their lives. If he fails, then everyone who he has ever loved will be doomed to try and survive his creation, whether it is finished or not.

Please be advised that this is a fast-paced novel, with a plot that spans many realms.

Brockwing Vale

I screamed the second that spell was cast; feeling the powerful energy as it ripped through my veins, mutating every cell in an instant. The defenders below were caught off guard when the mages shifted their attention, having already forgotten about me.

Flying just out of reach, I stayed long enough to watch as the entire left flank ceased to exist. Almost one hundred innocent men, women, and children were either dead or else changed beyond recognition. Anyone who knew what had happened to me, or the others, were now gone.

I was arguably a lesser form of life now; still, living as a Blackbird might be fun, at least that's what I kept telling myself as I perched on the edge of the highest tree branch I could find. No longer was I Jake, a student with the fate of every world sitting on my shoulders, I was free to do-'

A Short Life