An Education in Magic and Magetools
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Once a power limited only to the elite, the advent of Magetools brought the use of magic to the masses. To educate the best and brightest in the operation of these fantastic tools, the Marifond Federal Academy of Magic was founded. There, students are split into three colleges - Cadets of the Federal Army, Seminarians of the Church of Gaeon, and Apprentice Couriers of the Courier Alliance. Our four protagonists are members of this last group, four of the few who have enrolled to become Couriers. Their education will push them to their limits, molding them into ideal Magetool users - smart, strong, and capable. But no schooling is without its difficulties, especially when dealing with monsters, magic, and Magetool engineering. A struggle awaits, but Cliff, Loria, Nym, and Thalos will do all in their power to persevere all the way until graduation.
Updates when I update, hopefully once a week.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- wwstalcup
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- Rating
- 4.8/ 5.0
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- 139
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- 50,439
Chapters(45 total)
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Community Reviews(6)
- Endless PavingRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0This story doesn’t hit you immediately with a grand plot, but it hots well. The worldbuilding is a work of excellence that weaves throughout the plot and characters. There’s war, disaster, politics, but most of all there’s school drama with a well written ensemble cast of characters.
We have four main characters, each with their own stories, and drawing attention to each of their storylines doesn’t detract from any main running storyline following one of them. It doesn’t feel like separate stories where you have to stop reading about one interesting story just to be distracted with one of the other characters for a while on some obligation not to abandon their story even when its not the most interesting one at the moment. The narrative knows how to wait and delay progressing one plotline in favour of focusing on one that more immediately interesting. The reticent guy plotline for example seems to mostly just be hinted at throughout the other plotlines and so doesn’t take up distracting narrative space out of turn. And I still don’t know for certain what its really about after 40 chapters.
The writing style requires some investment to get into the story, as everything happens at a deliberate pace rather than having rushed story arcs with fast pacing, but it’s well worth it for the quality of storytelling you get in the end.
Expect fantasy magic school with combat and tactics type hijinks. Monsters, adventure, blood, tragedy, drama, all the things! - HoneyBeaverRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Extremely well written with developed characters who (for better or worse) are believable as real people even for those who are relatively minor. Excited to keep reading. The setting is also intriguing with lots of room for story growth. It is multiple POV but at least to me it feels like we spend the majority of the time with Cliff. Not a criticism because I'm a fan of him but something to keep in mind if you are focused on the multiple POV
- Lecture FillerRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Really good "Magic school" story.
Good style, pretty good soft magic system with interesting ideas for the world.
(I hope there will be more "worldbuilding" type of parts too, because i am really interested in the small details of the monsters, the cities and the magic)
Likable characters, each with well written personalities with evenly distributed POVs (Cliff is the best tho)
Especially impressed with the teacher s character, all the notable ones are well written and suprisingly human. - ManuscRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0So, I just binged through this and I am thoroughly impressed and entertained.
Will (the author) has made a world in the throes of a magical tool revolution that evokes wonder and analysis, and he occupies it with strong, conflicting characters.
The world building is immersive and incredibly thought out. A living world of history, politics, magic system, religion and more filtered through natural snippets of conversation and lecture. Exposition is given in deliberately small bites, never overstated, leaving a good deal of mystery and time for the wider view to be revealed.
Main and sides characters have strong internal voices and personalities. Conflict is natural and grounded, which progresses character and plot development at a pace well-crafted. Never did I feel the author compromising the characters motivations in service of the plot.
Thanks for sharing this story with us, Will. I am keen to be along for the ride. - ardgalenRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I think that this is a good start so I'm giving 5stars mainly to encourage others to read this work.
The author has built a complex magic system based on natural "gifts" and on magic tools: they can mix up in endless possibilities. Cliff's gift is very interesting.
The plot for now is very basic but the elements are there for something more. Most POV characters have clear motives and the typical teenage cockiness. The POV switch works fine in my opinion. - dans123Royal Road★★★★★ 5.0I'm 2 chapters in (plus the prologue) but hooked so far. (Found the author from his Soul of the Wind book on Amazon.) The characters and world are well defined, comfortable but not too cliche, without too much exposition dump. I expect it's building to an epic quest, but I'm enjoying the pace of learning about the characters and the world so far. Classic epic fantasy with a touch of steampunk. Really enjoying it -- keep it up!