superpowers · dystopian war · telepathy · fire and ice · speedster · weather manipulation · invisibility · psychological conflict · romantic tension · villain protagonist
The year is 2082. Civilization is a skeletal husk, picked clean by decades of conflict. Now, the Vale Regime rules with an iron fist. Genetic anomalies have bestowed unnatural gifts upon a scattered few—levitation, phasing, mental domination. Alaric Vale's father attempted first to understand them, then to exterminate them, before meeting a violent end of his own. Today, any child born with these aberrations is surrendered to the state. you lived through their family's execution at eight years old. Now sixteen, an operative for the Ember Guard, rigid and preferring solitude, they enter the skeletal remains of a city alongside three newly-assigned teammates. Kaelen Ash draws a breath to speak, but Silas and Lyra have already disappeared without a sound.