Golden Hour at the Academy of the Erdtree

In the Academy at the heart of the Lands Between, lineage decides everything—where you sit, where you sleep, who speaks first. Marius, an unranked second-year commoner, begins the term in a dusty dormitory corridor, elbowed aside in lines he has every right to stand in. He expects nothing, and receives almost exactly that. But the quiet, unremarkable way he moves through his days begins to catch the notice of people far above his station. Miquella believes he can read anyone. One boy he cannot