Dragons Soul 1000 Chains

For three hundred years, the most powerful being ever to exist has been imprisoned in the dark space between worlds — bound by one thousand chains, each forged from a different law of binding, each attached not only to its body but to its soul. The creature is Sorvael, the Ur-Flame: the first fire given will, the force that burned chaos into shape and from whose work the Nine Realms were carved. The Founders who bound it believed they were protecting the world from something too powerful to be free. They were wrong. Without Sorvael moving between the Realms, the foundations those Realms were built on are slowly failing. The nine thrones are crumbling. The borders between worlds are thinning. And something ancient, patient, and deeply invested in keeping Sorvael bound has noticed that a young scholar named Ella Voss has found the door. Ella is not a warrior. She is a scholar — brilliant, precise, constitutionally incapable of leaving evidence untranslated. She does not choose this quest in the way heroes choose quests in the old stories. She follows her evidence. And her evidence leads her to the Iron Confluence, to the between-space, to the first of a thousand chains, and to the beginning of a journey that will take her through all Nine Realms, test every quality she possesses, and ultimately ask her to carry a dragon's soul inside her own body until Sorvael can be fully freed. This is the story of a scholar who becomes a flame-bearer. A dragon who learns what trust costs. And a world that must decide whether it can survive being saved.

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