The Weight of Names by Andrian Vale
Freedom has a name. Power has a price. Kael must learn the weight of both.
Three weeks after walking away from the academy, Kael is finally unclaimed—and unprotected. Beyond the city’s polished systems, rumors gather, old debts awaken, and a summons pulls him toward trials built to measure far more than strength.
Kael Voss has escaped the academy, but freedom offers no protection from the name it gave him. Beyond Ironreach, every faction recognizes a different version of the Shadow: weapon, traitor, prize, or warning. A summons draws him toward sovereign trials where identity is measured as ruthlessly as strength and where every contestant carries the doctrine of a competing system.
The Weight of Names expands the trilogy into a wider landscape of rival disciplines, unstable alliances, and histories that refuse to stay buried. Kael must learn that choosing his own path does not erase what he has done—it makes him responsible for what comes next. The result is a tense second volume about earned trust, escalating power, and the dangerous difference between being unclaimed and being free.
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