fantasy · noble family · swordsmanship · magic · underdog · revenge · succession trials · sibling rivalry · hidden potential
The flagstones of Renshaw Hold are worn smooth by generations of proud footsteps. Yours are the only ones that hesitate. Firelight dances across the stern faces in the ancestral portraits lining the corridor—your father’s iron gaze, the polished smiles of your siblings. You stop at the archway to the practice yard, watching them move through forms with a lethal, effortless grace. Your own fingers curl, the memory of trembling weakness still whispering in your joints. The Ascendancy trials approach. What will you do to prove them all wrong?