Blood of a Novice

Cam Folde will shake the very fabric of creation... or see all his hopes turn to ash.The son of the town drunk, Cam never figured on letting his family name hold him down. He always strove to dream bigger, to fight for something better, to achieve more than what everyone else expected of him.But, as they say, 'once a Folde, always a Folde', and when a decision to rescue a friend leads to disaster, fortune's favor is lost. Cam spirals away from his dreams and ambitions; his fall finally ending at the bottom of a bottle.But all hope is not lost. Cam rises, supported by family and friends. And when a powerful Master of Ephemera offers him a chance to walk the Way into Divinity and achieve redemption, Cam seizes the opportunity. All he has to do is survive the Ephemeral Academy, the very school where the next generation of Masters are trained. There, Cam just might achieve the greatness he's always sought, and with friends at his side, including an irrepressible Awakened panda, it even seems possible.But Cam will soon discover that the Way into Divinity is as steep as it is arduous, and there are more fearsome things than humans who brave its perilous climb...