Stardust Magic

You are stardust. So is everything else.

The only thing that separates you from the dust on the road is what you decide to do with your time. In the Veiled Vale, some people decided to become magic — and left ten tiers of it buried in the ground for whoever is stubborn enough to dig it up.

You start as a treasure hunter with one spark to your name. Feel for buried caches with the Seeker's Pulse, dig them up, and haul the motes back to the Bazaar. Money buys the future: four hand-made outfits that visibly change who you are, spell training that sharpens what you already know, and charms that make every hunt richer than the last.

Ten spells, one per level. Starmote. Emberveil. Gale Step. Warding Halo. Gravewell. Lumen Chain. Mirror Twin. Nova Bloom. Aeon Still. And finally Stardust Ascension, where you come apart into light and nothing can touch you.

Magic connects. Set two linked spells side by side in your Constellation and they fuse into something neither one could do alone — a burning comet dash, a collapsing star, a circuit closed between you and your own double. Six fusions to find.

You are not the only one out here. Hollow Seekers hunt the same ground you do, Voidbound Magi will shoot you off a cache from twelve metres out, and the Ashen Warden is sitting on the richest vault in the Vale waiting for someone to be worth his time. Die and you scatter — leaving a third of your motes on the ground where you fell, glowing, for you or somebody else to come and take.