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All in all, the choice was easier to make than I’d thought at first. The Thundercloud Faerie Steps was probably the most niche case. While boosting the range of my teleport spells would be nice, I had too many mana types for it to be an appealing choice.
That left Truths of the Mirror, and Depths of Starry Night. Both of them offer...
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to let you all know that my laptop has stopped charging. I've brought it in to a few places, but it looks like they may need to order in a new charging jack, which is... Oh, so fun!
I've backed up all my Mana Mirror stuff, but due to the way voting works, there may be a slight delay in chapters.
Sorry for the inconvience!
The following day was Knoday, which was the weekend, and thus one of my days off – even though I usually spent the time doing missions. As soon as I was up, I reached into my mana to sketch the Analyze Death spell, but caught myself, surprised I’d already formed the habit.
Alvaro had mentioned that mastery was just shaping your mana to be able to form the spell instantly, but that there were two parts to ingraining a spell.
The first was gobs of mana. My mana-garden was pret...
Content Warning for discussion of and mild consumption alcohol. Nobody goes on a bender or anything, don't worry!
He clicked his fingers, and a pair of glasses appeared on the table. They were short, only a few inches tall, with an oddly bulbous shape. Each one had two large, clear ice cubes inside of them.
Orykson rose and stepped over to a globe, then lifted the top hemisphere to reveal that the upper hemisphere was empty, the globe acting as a small container. ...
2023-04-19 10:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a short story set seven months before the events of Mana Mirror begin
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Kene spat toothpaste into the sink, rinsed out their mouth with the slightly alchemical tasting motel water, and then lifted their head back up. As they turned to grab a towel to dry their face, their eye caught on something dark in the mirror.
He whirled around to see a witch standing in the corner of his bathroom.
He ran a hand through h...
2023-04-15 00:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis story is set two years and four months before the events of Mana Mirror begin
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Alvaro stared at the black door in anticipation. He was sixteen years old today. Most people couldn’t get their mana tested until they were eighteen, but having a Goetíea Librarian as a mother did offer a few benefits.
Even if she was always away on Public Library business, and…
Alvaro squashed that thought before it could get to...
2023-04-15 00:14:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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He's currently in need of some commissions, so if you need some art done, send it their way!
I should commission art of other people... Like Kene. Or Alvaro. Or Meadow.
Authors Note: This chapter is coming out a day early because work tomorrow is going to be... Hectic. I COULD schedule it now, but I decided... Why not just go ahead and release it?
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The two-faced ring was the easiest to eliminate. Life and death mana each already held a decent amount of combat potential, after all. If I wanted to focus more on combat, then I’d need to get more spells like Pinpoint Boneshard and Fungal Lock, but I was already working on...
2023-04-11 19:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is in reference to the short story you can read here.
Feel free to discuss or ask questions in here or my discord!
As for why Ed didn't touch desolation... He doesn't like to hurt people. Most of his spells are defensive or binding spells, not destructive attack spells.
Preface: This story is an April Fool’s Day joke, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Everything that appears here is of questionable canonicity at best. If it WAS to be canon, it would be set roughly five hundred years before Mana Mirror’s events.
System Initializing…
1%... 15%...
I snapped awake with a start and took in a deep, shuddering breath.
Where… was I? I glanced around. This definitely wasn’t my apartm...
2023-04-01 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI've made this one multiple choice, since it's so important, and so varried!
2023-03-24 16:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is a bit of a shorter chapter, because it comes with a major decision at the end, and I can't just push past that.
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Five nodes separated from the elemental and swirled out into portals, each one containing a different item.
The first portal held a small ring, made of gold, with a red stone set in it. The stone had been carved into a two different halves of a face, one half of which was laughing, while the other...
The following morning, I rose early and prepared to use the elixir.
In my life, I’d only used a handful of elixirs, potions, or pills. The ones that I’d gotten for free in my classes growing up had all been intended to stimulate the growth and development of ungated mana.
I’d also used the lethetic tea, and Kene’s mana enhancer had boosted the power of that, so I was confident I could handle the effects of this mana, but I was still nervous.
I got some water, sinc...
I bit my lip and then let out a low sigh, then started the walk back home.
As much as the two thousand silver did call to me, Orykson had been willing to drop five times that amount on my suits. There were decent odds that whatever he gave me would be valuable. Maybe even more valuable than the two thousand silver would be.
I comforted myself with the fact that, even if the gift was trash – which I didn’t think it would be, but that wasn’t the point – I’d still be perm...
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2023-03-24 14:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've just finished up the next three weeks worth of chapters, and I'm feeling a bit delightfully devilish - You can blame John Bierce and Kat Butch for encouraging me. So I've decided...
Would you all rather have all three chapters now, and not receive any new chapters until April 12th?
Or would you rather wait and have them come out as normal?
This poll will close at Noon, Eastern Time tomorrow!
Orykson was sitting in his personal library, sipping from a glass of whiskey on the rocks and tinkering with a spell design when a skeleton burst in.
This wasn’t particularly unusual, in and of itself. Almost all of his staff were either spirits of a sort, or skeletons – zombies were horribly messy, tended to leak, and lacked refinement. Flesh golems were better, if they were crafted well, but that was simply avoiding necromancy for no reason, so he’d never employed more than a fe...
2023-03-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis is NOT going to decide which set of magic Malachi is going to pick, I'm just curious.
At this point in the story, which of the magic gates calls to you most? If you want to comment why, please do!
I've left off Knowledge/Abnegation, since that's... Almost EXACTLY Evan's powerset, lol. That may be a bit 'meta', but I don't want to write two protagonists with the same general magical abilities, just in a different system. The point of Man...
2023-03-17 17:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostEd lifted the stone training spear over one head and threw it at the dummy. As he did, his fingers traced a quick pattern in the air, and the stone of the spear shifted shape, transforming into set of three rings that bound the arms and torso of the dummy.
“Not fast enough,” he muttered under his breath, glancing at his fingers. The spell that he was using was more complex than a lot of combat spells, since it needed to be able to adapt the size to the target on the fly, and he hadn...
2023-03-16 22:09:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! This month has been a bit more productive. I'm currently at 25k words on The Abjurer - Not where I wanted to be, but better than the last month or two for sure. The plot's starting to really take shape firmly now, and I think, barring any major life events, I should be able to keep steadily chipping at it!
2023-03-15 11:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you know about Paperbeetles?” Alvaro asked as we arrived on the first gate floor of the library.
“They’re beetles that eat paper?” I guessed.
“Right,” he said. “Like a Choruk, it uses death mana to break things down in its stomach and convert the death energies in what they ate into more mana for itself. Unlike Choruk, they come in swarms of twenty-two, and also are able to turn invisible. Not so well a detection spell can’t find them, but…”
The next several days flew by, with me working at the butcher’s shop, practicing sketching the Analyze Life spell whenever I could, converting all my death mana into life. When Temsday finally rolled around, it was time for me to pick up my new broom. I met the broom mechanic at her store, and she smiled broadly at me.
“Malachi, right?”
“Yep,” I said, smiling back at her. She waved her hand, and with a surge of mana, the broom I’d selected flew off the wall and over ...
CW: Mentions of previous self harm.
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I scratched at my chin for a few moments before I decided that it had to be the blood carnations.
While the green star sapling would be useful indefinitely, banking on the idea that I’d be reaching all the way to fifth gate was a bit foolish, regardless of what Orykson promised. If I somehow did get that far, then I’d probably be able to acquire a sapling to use.
The purpletongue thistle would ...
2023-03-01 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, everything ached when I woke up. For a moment, I wondered if I’d been early, but when I realized it was a spiritual ache, not a physical one, it clicked.
The enhancer that I’d bought from Kene. I’d gotten used to the strange ache that the Lithetic Tea left in my Mana Garden. But if that ache was a middle of the road pasta place that you wouldn’t take a date, but you would take your family, then this new ache was a ham sandwich that you hurriedly slapped togethe...
2023-02-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Sorry for the random poll. I know it's a bit away, but I wanted to know who you all would be interested in following for the next interlude chapter (Like the talk between Meadow and Orykson, or Ikki and Orykson). If you're interested in the "someone else" bit, feel free to put who interests you in the comments! It doesn't need to be a major power, it could totally be someone like Kene, Alvaro, Ed, etc
2023-02-21 15:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I hope you all had a good Valentines Day, if you celebrate! Here's a fun fact for Mana Mirror: If you transitioned our Gregorian Calendar to the Ddeaer Calendar, February 16th (Aka the 16th of Final-Ice) is a big celebration of the arts called 'Poet's Day'. It isn't just about poetry, however, all the arts are celebrated
I'm about 10k into my rework of The Abjurer (Evan's story), and while I am happier with what's going on now, I've had a bit of a wall in terms of just......
I was a bit nervous to let Kene take the Acidbubble-Toad into their lab without me, but at this point, I figured it was a sunk cost – if they really wanted to steal the toad, they wouldn’t have needed to heal me.
Which was still strange to me. I glanced down at my hand. The regeneration spell had done its work well, but there were faint white lines surrounded by bright pink, freshly healed skin running along my palm in circular shapes where the bubbles had impacted.
I spent a ...
2023-02-15 12:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhich of the options that Kene has recommended would he pick from the Wyldwatch?
This poll closes in 5 days, on February 13th.