PRANA:Wern

At twelve, Wren's magic failed to appear.so he was not just weak but dead weight to the family.

The clan didn't throw him out tho. They just stopped saying his name in future plans. Mid-conversation when he walked in, the subject changed. One overheard comment stuck: having Wren in the upcoming selection trial was good news for the other nine participants, because with him there, all nine mana users moved up one slot in the survival rankings. His death spoken about like weather. Unfortunate, predictable, not worth dwelling on.

He was fourteen when he found the dungeon. He was alone. He nearly died. He came out with a power nobody in his family can classify, detect, or teach him to control. The Prana

System doesn't generate magic. It takes other people's. Reads ambient mana the way a scalpel reads a body, severs people from their own power at the exact moment they reach for it. In a family of medics who moonlight as assassins, Wren has become the one thing their entire operation is built to never encounter: someone who reads as nothing.

His goal is the head seat. His uncle holds it. His cousin was born next in line. Wren's name was never on the list.