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Inscribed in Iron and Zephyr: Volume 1: Ashes of the Valley
Paperback
Series: Inscribed in Iron and Zephyr, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 17 2026
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He survived fifteen years as a cavalry soldier. Dying beneath his own cavalry was not how he expected his service to end.
Haruto awakens in another world as an infant, surrounded by unfamiliar magic and a family he has never known.
But his old life is already slipping away.
Names vanish. Faces fade. Memories disappear piece by piece, leaving behind instincts, hard-earned experience, and one determination: if this strange world has given him another chance, he refuses to waste it.
Growing up in the quiet mountain refuge of Kestrel Vale, Haruto discovers enchanting-a form of magic that allows him to inscribe intent, mana, and structure into ordinary objects. For the first time, the former soldier finds satisfaction not in destroying something, but in creating it.
Then he meets Ash, a young elven survivor with a natural gift for wind magic.
What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes years of shared meals, dangerous experiments, training, Guild work, and dreams of someday reaching the Royal Mage Academy of Veyrhold.
But beyond the safety of their valley, the world is larger-and far less forgiving-than either of them realizes.
Ashes of the Valley is the first volume of Inscribed in Iron and Zephyr, a character-driven isekai fantasy featuring structured magic, enchanting, found family, adventure, slow-burn character relationships, and two young mages growing into a world that will eventually demand far more from them than they ever expected.
Their story begins in Kestrel Vale.
It will not end there.
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