This is a story of two houses: one that held him but never claimed him, and one that claimed him but never held him. We’ll lean into the **Vyrasten** setting, where the divide between the common "dust" and the noble "mana" is a chasm no one is supposed to cross.
Here is the complete narrative of **Ronan**, also known as **Caelum of House Vyrasten**.
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The Weight of a Borrowed Name
Part I: The Gate of Mercy
The winter of 152 was a season of starving iron. In the slums of the Filintra