Adalasia

The sky is an ocean. The stars are battlegrounds. And the gods have gone silent.

Nikolai has spent his life watching skyships carve bright wakes between worlds, certain he was meant to sail among them. But he was born a Vandal, an orphan branded by war, without coin, crest, or name.

For six years, The Academy was his way out. He trained beside heirs and prodigies for the day the Cauldron would reveal the power in his blood, praying that Nikolai the Vandal might die at its altar and someone worth remembering might rise in his place.

Instead, it finds nothing.

No affinity. No answer. Only a contradiction The Academy cannot explain: Nikolai has risen among cadets born with powers he does not possess.

Then the war reaches their gates. The Academy's finest are thrown into an impossible mission: board a skyship, cross the black between worlds, and recover relics older than any crown, said to possess the power to end the thousand-year war.

But the farther they sail, the less the war resembles the history they were taught. The Magistrates watch their every move. The Coalition has lied about what waits at journey's end. And the silence of the gods may be the oldest lie of all.

To survive, Nikolai must discover why the Cauldron found nothing in him, and whether the Coalition that denied him a name ever deserved his loyalty.

Adalasia is an epic science fantasy of skyships, divine bloodlines, and cadets forged into weapons by a civilization that teaches its children what to die for.