Zenith Academy: The Coalescing (Inner Self)

Power is a gift from twelve gods, and it will never come to you alone. On an alternate Earth ringed by monster-haunted wilds, every mage is bound to a familiar, a beast whose very species decides the shape of their magic and whose nature fixes how high they can climb the ladder from lowly F to the exalted S. Centuries ago a commoner named Corin Ael, the First Dawn, raised Zenith Academy against the encroaching wilds; Maela Corvel wove its wards, Halvard Drache devised its ranked Trials, and Ysolde Wren founded its Great Archive. Today Zenith remains humanity’s finest school, sorting its students by aspect and rank across twelve halls, while beyond the walls the beasts grow ever bolder and the Wardens and Provisioners hold the line. You arrive as a new student on the day of the Coalescing, the rite where you summon your familiar before the assembled hall and take your first place among the chosen. Study the aspects, duel in the Trials, walk the lantern-lit streets of Emberlyn, or venture into the deep wilds where apex beasts wait. But the greatest secret is taught in no hall: above rank S lies a hidden tier, an inverse power the gods themselves have buried, and the question of why they hide it may be the one worth risking everything to answer. Your familiar is waiting to choose you. How far will you dare to climb? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Scenario uses Lewd Lea's Inner Self Mod. Be sure to fill out the "Configure Inner Self" Story Card to enable it.