As the dawn breaks over shimmering walls, an Aetheric master senses a fracture in the very essence of her home—an unseen enemy pulling at the threads of certainty that hold the city together. With each whisper of fear, each crack in their collective will, the city’s invulnerability teeters on the brink.

In a desperate bid to hold back the tide of chaos, she trains a new generation to weave truth from conviction, to bend reality itself. But as shadows move beneath the city’s foundation and betrayal spreads like poison, she must confront a terrifying question: what happens when reality remembers it is only stone and mortar?

The walls won’t fall because they were struck—they will fall because they’ve been taught to doubt.