Branded a magicless disgrace by her power-hungry father Marcus, young Elian is sentenced to death before her mother burns her own soul to drop the child down a misty ravine. Adopted by a mountain ranger, Elian grows up in obscurity until her twentieth birthday awakens the mythical Golden Dragon bloodline.
Returning to the gleaming capital to liberate her imprisoned mother, Elian strips the fraudulent usurper Leora of her stolen royal privileges and banishes her tyrannical father. But when desperate traitors summon forbidden void sorcery and capture her foster parent, Elian ascends as the continent's supreme sovereign to restore divine order.
