The year is 509. The known world is fractured between clans, each carrying their own traditions, and the Oceanward Council, a naval power that enforces its law across the seas. Power flows through the world in different forms of magic—fire, wood, sand, water, magma, and many more. Curses, magical remnants of the Old World, grant immortality at the cost of one’s humanity. Aksil is a boy of the Imperatus clan, a people of warriors trained in discipline and weaponry. Unlike his kin, he was born with a bond to magic—something rare as much as it is respected. When a sudden disaster shatters the life he knew, Aksil is cast into a wider struggle: between nations fighting for survival, generals, mages, soldiers shaping the seas, and cursed immortals whose influence stretches back centuries. Rescued by Nilo, a disgraced former captain of his country's military, Aksil lives and trains under his wing as he searches for his place and true meaning in this divided world. Aksil’s gift of magic may become a beacon... or a burden. His journey is one of survival, identity, revenge, and the choices that will decide whether he is shaped by the world’s evil, or becomes the one to break it.