The Ethereal Web

Thomas Kessler is seventeen, adopted, and haunted by dreams of a world he's never seen — azure flames, a constellation that speaks, and a monochrome figure offering a medallion in the mist.

When an ancient shard in a Warsaw museum bonds with him, granting living tattoo markings and azure fire, Thomas is pulled through a portal into Astrylis — a world of seven continents where magic flows through the Ethereal Web, a cosmic force that connects all things.

Discovered by Nimh'Riel, an elven ranger of the Royal Guard, Thomas is brought to Elyndor — the elven capital governed by the Council of 13 Elders. There he meets Grimbol, a haunted dwarven scholar; Anne, a sea-diplomat's daughter; Merra, an exile wielding frost and shadow; and Tork, a goblin engineer searching for his missing wife.

As Thomas learns to control powers he doesn't understand, he discovers that his arrival was not an accident — and that the darkness stirring in the forbidden desert of Dhul'Azhar has been waiting for someone exactly like him.