The Unshackled Elder Race

He was livestock before he had a name. Born a High Elf in a world that turns his kind into ingredients — skin for robes, blood for potions, flesh for power — Golda spent seven years in a castle stall watching knights train through a three-inch gap in the door. He escaped at seven with nothing but chains on his wrists and eleven years of someone else's combat techniques memorized in his blood. Now he's eighteen. The forest gave him power. The world still wants him dead. But something is growing in the haunted forest — freed slaves, Beastkin warriors, Demi-humans, Elves, humans, and races the world has long discarded. Together they are building Sylthas: a city that shouldn't exist, led by a High Elf who was never supposed to be free, fighting to unshackle everyone the world has forgotten. A faction that nobody asked for. An army that nobody saw coming. This is not a revenge story. It's a rebuilding one. And the world is not ready.