The Voice of a Mute

Dowyr Mawkin doesn't have much going for him. A mute orphan from birth, not quite pleasant to look at, and to top it all off, he's stuck in the most religious capital in the world, whose gods he has no belief or interest in. All he wants is to escape to the south where the warmth and the 'heathens' are, but things take a turn when he gains an Emogic, a magic power triggered by intense emotion. He is quickly sent to the Academy of Emogic to learn to harness his new abilities, and there he me...