Meet Sayra

Sayra was supposed to be a shield. Nothing more.

Raised in Faenda before her homeland fell to conquest, she grew up believing her only purpose was to guard a man’s life with her own, one more Valkyrie in a system built to keep magic-wielding men alive at any cost. She trained for it, armed herself for it, and expected to spend her life invisible inside it.

Then her graduation trial went wrong, and something impossible happened instead.

Sayra wields majik. A woman wielding magic is not supposed to exist, and in the world she was raised in, that single fact could get her killed the moment it’s discovered. What she does with a gift she was never supposed to have, who she trusts with the secret, and who she becomes because of it, is the whole shape of her story.

Defiant, dry, and quick with a blade before she’s quick with an apology, Sayra doesn’t ask to be chosen for anything. She just refuses to be discarded.