Stormfire

The Court of Winds is ruled by murderers, though the world does not know it.

Jaime Pappas only knows his realm as the one that punishes cripples with iron. On the chilly alps of a remote land, he wears his mark, dreaming to escape his servitude and debilitating asthma.When a royal magistrate executes his brother for a false crime, Jaime is thrust headlong into a destiny he never imagined. For the ruling mage discovers he is an Air Sage, an extinct being greater than even the dragons of old.One crippled boy must enter a deadly race to rise above them all...Though bringing to justice an oligarchy of traitors, and exposing the true demons, will mean watching an empire burn.Enter the sweeping Third Age, where the old factions of demons, gods, and mages will challenge the Sacred Empire of Sages, a world order that has reigned supreme for three thousand years - and where the broken and weak have the power to change the future.