(No romance + working-class heroine + ensemble cast + nation-building + swords and magic)
This is the story of an ordinary girl, until dragonfire burned her village to the ground and she bent down to pick up a charred piece of wood that was still breathing.
Seventeen-year-old Lila was nothing more than a farm girl from the frontier, and she never imagined history would drag her into its current of fate with such cruelty. When the breath of an ancient red dragon reduced Oakwood Village to ashes, she was the only one of the seventeen survivors who was different: a faint light awoke within the charred stone in her palm, and the land’s pulse echoed heavily in her ears. Beneath the ruins, an ancient pact, utterly forgotten, began to throb with every beat of her heart.
The scorched earth beneath her feet was no ordinary land. It was the lost City of Resonance, the silent tomb of Atalantis. Elves had once built cities here with song, dwarves had shaped them with hammers, merfolk whispers had made fountains float, and dragons had perched atop the towers... until the “Great Forgetting” swept everything away, erasing every song, oath, and name.
The past has been forgotten, the present is still unfolding, but where is the future?
