The Last Ember King

"This East-West fusion fantasy epic centers on bloodlines, curses, and the rigid order of the realm. The Edwyn Dragon-Blooded Dynasty holds dragon blood as the highest privilege, and the Holy Dragon Church has monopolized magic for a thousand years. On the Day of Divine Grace, anyone who fails to awaken elemental talents is branded ""the Emberless"" and stripped of all rights and status. Kaelor Edwyn, the third prince once hailed as a golden child, is judged to have no elemental resonance by the Holy Dragon Crystal at his awakening ceremony, and is publicly exiled to the Northern Marches by his own father. Amid backbreaking toil in the mining town, the laments of elven slaves and the black dragon crystal deep in the collapsed lodes lead him to a thousand-year-old bloodline hoax — one this ""worthless prince"" is destined to tear open with his own hands."