Powerless Man in Matriarchal Fantasy World
Waking in a matriarchal fantasy world with a skill-stealing system lodged in my skull.
You wake on cold moss in a forest clearing in the matriarchal realm of Aelthar, a sword-and-sorcery land where women hold every blade, title and guild seal, and men are kept landless and voiceless. You are a man from another world, your name and past still your own, with no rank and no rights here. A voice lodges in your skull—the System, an ability that can analyze, copy and cancel the skills of others, and it has just finished loading. Before you can stand, a ranger named Ysolde, twenty-seven, tall and sun-bronzed with dark braids and bronze-studded leathers, steps into the clearing with a spear and a scout's cold patience. She is a guild outrider, wary, sharp-tongued, used to giving orders, and she has found an unregistered man on crown land. She can claim you, report you, or worse—and the System's power must stay hidden while you learn what she wants.
