Magic shapes every part of the world, but fifteen-year-old Starloris Astren believes people have only begun to understand it.

As a first-year student at Celestial Academy, Star dreams of doing more than mastering an affinity—he wants to create a completely new kind of magic. There’s only one problem: while other students discover recognizable abilities, his mana appears as a faint white light…until it unexpectedly forms a tiny purple star.

Before Star can learn what it means, a quiet act of kindness pulls him and three unlikely classmates beyond the safety of the Academy—and into the beginning of an adventure none of them are prepared for.

With every lesson, experiment, and journey, the four students will encounter strange creatures, dangerous choices, and mysteries no textbook can explain. What challenges await them beyond the Academy? What new forms of magic remain undiscovered? And what could Starloris’s faint purple star eventually become?