The Embers of a New Age
Fernando de la Vega grew up believing he was a transmigrator — a soul from another world, carrying knowledge that didn't belong here. He was wrong.
The world he lives in is Earth. Not the past, not a parallel — the future, rebuilt from ash after a civilization burned itself to nothing. The "magic" that runs through his veins isn't supernatural. It's adaptation. Generations of human bodies learning to hear a frequency left behind by catastrophe.
His mother knew all of this. She was the last scientist of the old world, and before she was killed, she spent twenty years building one thing: him.
Not as a weapon. As an answer to a question no institution, no empire, no faction had ever managed to solve — how do you pass knowledge forward without it becoming the next thing that destroys everything?
Fernando doesn't get to choose whether to carry this. He gets to choose what to do with it.
Set in a world of Iberian kingdoms, political intrigue, and the long shadow of a war no one remembers, Age of Ember is a story about inheritance, judgment, and the people who hold civilization together while pretending they aren't.
Jeffrey_lau · Fantasy