Kael Ardyn was born into one of the mage kingdom's most powerful noble houses. On the day of his Awakening, when every noble child manifests their elemental affinity, he stood before the council—and summoned nothing.
Declared magicless and disowned, Kael is cast into the Outlands, a wild and lawless region where the weak do not survive. But the kingdom was wrong.
Beneath the roots of the world, something ancient stirs. Life itself whispers to him, awakening a power long forgotten—Verdance, the forbidden magic of life and growth.
Alone, hunted, and thought dead, Kael begins a journey not of survival... but of becoming. The mage society that cast him aside will soon learn:
You can bury a seed, but you cannot stop it from growing.