In the verdant empire of Gaialen, a bastard boy named Lucien Valis grows up on the edge of legend and obscurity — the unwanted son of a noble house, cursed with strange dreams and a magic that defies order. To the world, he is nothing more than a forgotten name in a forgotten branch of the imperial tree.
But blood never forgets.
Born of Seraphina of the House of Light and Kael of the Shadowborn, Lucien carries a lineage the gods themselves swore to erase. A child of forbidden union — one whose soul could unmake the balance between light and dark. To prevent it, the gods sealed within him a power far older than any empire: the God of Twilight, long buried by divine war and divine fear.
Now, as kingdoms fracture, old magic stirs, and omens blacken the skies, Lucien begins to hear a voice — not of madness, but of memory. A voice that whispers of forgotten truths, of betrayal, and of a destiny born at the hour between day and night.
He is not just a boy.
He is a vessel.
He is the key.
And when the seal breaks, the gods will tremble.