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Lumberjack at mage academy

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Rowan was born in the quiet countryside, where life was measured not in mana or noble lineage, but in calloused hands and the weight of an axe. His father was a lumberjack. Magic had never belonged to people like them. Yet Rowan’s elder brother dreamed of becoming a mage. The family knew the truth — mage academies favored noble bloodlines and magical heritage. For a commoner with no mage background, the gates were almost never opened. Still, Rowan and his father worked themselves to exhaustion, chopping wood day after day, selling timber coin by coin, until they finally earned enough to send the elder son to a mage academy far beyond their world. At first, letters came often. Stories of lessons, of mana, of a future that felt impossibly distant. Then… fewer letters. Shorter words. Long silences. Until one day, at a roadside tea stall, Rowan saw a newspaper. His brother’s face stared back at him. Branded a wanted heretic. Accused of assassinating a member of the Mage Council. The world they trusted collapsed in a single headline. The academy denied him. The nobles condemned him. The council declared him an enemy of magic itself. Rowan didn’t believe it. With nothing but an axe, a stubborn will, and a truth buried beneath lies, Rowan makes a decision that defies his place in the world: He will enter the mage academy himself. Not as a prodigy. Not as a noble. But as a lumberjack who learned magic the hard way — through labor, pain, and persistence. As Rowan steps into a world ruled by elite bloodlines, ancient houses, and hoarded knowledge, he discovers that magic is not just power — it is politics, control, and sacrifice. And if the academy taught his brother how to become a heretic… Then Rowan will learn exactly why.
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