Aethervale

The gods are gone. Their prison is failing. And the only one who can save the world was never meant to survive it.For three thousand years, the Dark has slept behind Seven Seals - and the bloodline of the God-King Aurelios has guarded its secret, scattered and forgotten. Aeron Hawkborn knows none of this. He is a village boy who can speak to hawks, until the night his blood touches the golden Sunfeather Relic and wakes the oldest hunger in creation.Now the Seals are breaking, and only the heir of Aurelios can restore them. Across a dying world - through a sky temple and a forge of fire, a mirror that shows the truth, a fallen kingdom and a drowned sea, all the way to a mountain that drinks the dawn - seven ancient guardians wait in the dark. Each has kept a vigil three thousand years long. Some will stand with Aeron. Some must be earned. One has already been lost.But the prison was built from sacrifice, and every Seal he restores draws Aeron nearer to the same lonely fate the last god-king chose. To save everyone, he will have to uncover the one truth the Mirror never showed him - that the world was never meant to be carried by a single hero.It was meant to be carried together.Seven Seals. Seven guardians. Three friends who refused to let each other stand alone.