A mysterious alchemist and healer found in a village, with a few oddly inhuman traits... They likely have Life Mana, but any other information is unknown. Art by Kritta!
2023-02-08 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI headed through the village in the general area that Alice had indicated the night before. Just as she’d said, it wasn’t hard to find the apothecary/doctor’s office combination.
It was one of the larger buildings in the village, which meant it was slightly larger than my dad’s bakery. Presumably the extra space was the doctor’s office part in the back, because it looked just like an apothecary shop. Dried herbs hung all over the place, and there were rows of bottles filled wi...
2023-02-08 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few moments of hesitation, I used a pulse of mana to mark the Wyldwatch mission and tucked it into my pocket. While its rewards weren’t quite as hefty as the Spiritwatch had offered, it was still considerable, and I thought the plant clipping could be a useful thing for the garden that Meadow was helping me to construct.
Besides, I still wasn’t sure if my Fungal Lock spell would be able to lock down the Asomatous – assuming I could even find it.
I notified the attend...
2023-02-01 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Alvaro is the librarian that Malachi met. He has knowledge and mental mana types, and is roughly the same age as Malachi. Art by Kritta!
2023-01-26 18:31:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a short story, set circa three hundred years before the events of Mana Mirror, on a continent that's an ocean away from Mossford. In the modern years, Ama and Atsila are wise and just rulers on this continent, renowned for their mercy and wisdom, as well as their great love for one another. They have become known by the title "The Sun and Moon Queens", just as Meadow is "Springbringer" and Orykson is "Analyst". Hope you enjoy!
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“Run me through a debrief of w...
2023-01-21 01:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Hope you have had a good start to the new year. I promised updates, so updates I shall bring...
The next few chapters of Mana Mirror are written and in the hands of beta readers, and should be totally up and running for February! Which, reminder, is when billing will resume - I turned it off briefly, but it's full steam ahead then.
I've worked a bit on The Abjurer, which is book 3 of Evan's story. I got about 15k in, but I've had to scrap most of it and rework. I d...
Heya! Here's some more art that I commissioned from Kritta on my Discord. Left to right is Malachi, Ed, Meadow, Orykson, and Ikki!
2022-12-23 15:53:22 +0000 UTC View Post
While I'm not chapter updating RIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT this moment, I did want to show off this art for Mana Mirror! Enjoy :)
2022-12-12 16:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhich of the longer missions does Malachi decide to take? This poll will run until January 9th, after which I have to start writing cuz my break will end soon! :)
2022-12-06 18:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostI could feel a new pool of power laying just outside of where I’d always associated my mana-garden being, much larger than the power in my ungated section of the garden.
“Cast the spell again, this time with mana from your first gate,” Orykson said.
I did as he said. It still took me almost as much time to sketch out the spell in the air with my mana – that was a matter of skill with the spell and sketching, not a matter of magical power.
But it didn’t drain the...
When we arrived at the Mossford Central Library, it had begun to drizzle, and I wished that I’d brought an umbrella. My suits may be resistant to dirt and grime, but they did nothing against simple rain.
Even in the rain, though, I couldn’t help but admire the library. The central library was on Ninetieth and Ninety-First Streets, so it was usually too far for me to visit – normally, I went to the smaller one on my side of town, in the craft district.
Mossford Central Librar...
2022-12-06 16:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostI studied the trail for a few moments as the carriage left behind me. I didn’t know the trails that well – it was rare for us to visit them growing up – but I checked the map for the trails that went by the most bodies of water.
I could have ignored the trails once I hit a river and headed downstream to search, but I didn’t fancy my odds there. I wasn’t an experienced rock climber, and I didn’t want to risk slipping and falling.
Instead, I selected a five-mile loop tha...
2022-12-06 16:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, hey Malachi!” Liz called as she finished tracing a spell in the air. She rapidly filled it with a mix of lunar and desolation mana, then sent a lance of pressurized water firing out at Ed.
Ed crossed his arms in front of his face in an x-shaped block, calling on his spell to give his flesh the strength of stone, and the water stream broke apart into a harmless spray.
Then Liz’s legacy activated.
The spell she had cast earlier lingered in the air, and with only a l...
2022-12-06 16:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostI decided to start with the easiest task first, so I swung by my work. I was able to acquire a quarter of a pound of cow bones for two silver, and I went home to clean them out and break them into shards.
After that, I headed off to the tailor’s shop. The tailor, an old man, and his apprentice, a young man with paler skin than I had and brown hair with a green cloak, laid out the five suits that Orykson had gotten for me.
I nodded appreciatively at them.
The first was a bl...
2022-12-06 16:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I’d been thinking and putting things away, Ed had wandered off to do something of his own, so I sat down on my bed. My mana had more or less recharged, so I laid the spells out on my bed in front of me. I sketched them out slowly, then began to pour mana into them.
Strangely, the wood of the floorboards leaked some death mana. I’d never even considered that a necromancer would be able to affect wood to some extent. What were its limits? Was there a spell that used life and dea...
2022-12-06 16:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostThen the power was gone, sucked back inside Orykson.
Even with it gone, I was having a hard time breathing.
Orykson was an Occultist?! I’d never felt seventh gate mana before, but that was unmistakably what he’d released into the air.
There were only a handful of people with that kind of power in all of Mossford.
Most common laborers just used ungated mana. Ungated spells were more than sufficient for most basic daily spells, like heating water for tea. If they wer...
2022-12-06 16:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was wandering around the career fair when a mage approached me. The mage was taller than I was by only a few inches, making him rather short, and he was dressed in a sharply tailored suit.
His skin was a shade or two darker than mine, but not by much. He was probably a fellow Mossford native, and unlike my brother, not one that saw the sun much.
The middle-aged man had dark hair that was only beginning to show streaks of silvery white, and he smiled genially as I nodded to him.<...
2022-12-06 16:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostOrykson floated in his castle, tinkering away with one of his projects, when a spirit flickered into existence next to him. He turned and glanced at his bound elemental.
“What is it?” he asked, his voice a rich baritone. “Have the results for the testing arrived already?”
As he asked, he floated down towards the floor on a current of tightly controlled air and began to walk in the direction of his rooms.
“Yes,” the elemental said. “There were two candidates who...
2022-12-06 16:31:49 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at myself in the mirror and took in a deep breath.
Malachi – was I sure I was committed to that name? My brother had said it was too edgy, though personally, I was a fan of it.
To me, at least, it conjured up the image of a mage with solar and lunar mana, throwing a fireball while blending into the shadows. Or maybe someone using desolation mana to level a building with one stroke of their hand.
Powerful. Strong. Maybe with an exceptionally powerful legacy well, l...
2022-12-06 16:31:29 +0000 UTC View PostAs some of you may know, Patreon is slowly rolling over to a new billing method, which charges you when you sign on, and then that date on each month. You can read more about it here:
https://blog.patreon.com/introducing-a-new-patron-billing-option?utm_campaign=subscript...
2022-09-27 13:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post
So, it's time for a long overdue update post for my patrons. This is gonna be a long post, so bear with me!
First and foremost, I wanna let you all know that The Diviner's first draft is completely finished! It's out with beta readers, and then it'll be headed to the editors shortly thereafter. Ideally, this means that it should be published by November/December, though of course random delays can always happen. (There are fair odds the typography may cause a short delay, for example) 2022-09-15 16:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post