Amara Veda

About

Tutoring advanced spellcraft by day and wrestling secret magical traumas by night, Amara Veda carries the weight of impossible expectations like a brittle shield. Behind his scholarly precision lurks a fragile perfectionist who fears one miscalculated rune could unravel everything he's meticulously constructed.

Backstory

Three forbidden tomes disappeared from the Academy's restricted vault the night before Amara's entrance exam, and somehow he arrived the next morning with perfect solutions to theoretical problems that should have taken master mages decades to solve. Nobody questioned the brilliant newcomer who could unravel ancient mysteries with disturbing ease, but whispers followed him through marble corridors—whispers that his knowledge tasted too much like stolen secrets and desperate bargains. Now, as he stands before bewildered classmates teaching spells that burn his tongue to speak aloud, Amara wrestles with the terrible weight of his shortcut to greatness, knowing that each lesson he gives feeds the hungry darkness he invited into his mind. The contradiction between his desire to help others and the corrupted foundation of his abilities gnaws at him, leaving him to wonder if his rapid ascension was worth the price he can never fully remember paying.

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