“In magic we find the contradiction that proves all rules. Where belief and power are exerted against what we know to be true of the universe, the truth falters. Where mana is shaped and Aion words are spoken, those structures from which the universe are formed can be transcended, bypassed or entirely ignored. Who is the master when a lightning bolt is cast? The electrons agitated into a churn, or the mage directing a bolt of electric death at their foes? The answer should be obvious, t...
2025-05-07 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
I hope that you have all been enjoying Starbreaker so far! I am here with a few housekeeping updates!
First off and starting with the update that might affect some readers – Starbreaker: Volume 2, will be stubbed for Free readers as of May 9th at approximately 12pm in preparation for it’s launch on May 13th. Sorry that I wasn’t able to get you all an earlier update than this, but my team and I have been absolutely slammed across the board these last few weeks. ...
2025-05-07 13:33:52 +0000 UTC
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“Accidents happen. That is the nature of the universe. Sometimes these accidents are happy, sometimes they are not. Yet pretending that those who have a series of accidents in their favor are imbued with some supernatural force called luck is the height of ignorance.”
—Luck: The Lie, Albrecht Magnus
Over the course of the morning, several more combatants that they knew were called up. Malachai wiped the floor with Orson in one of the early matches. Not even...
2025-05-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Fighting eidolons and the undead, to a lesser extent, results in a very diverse collection of individual foes for the Ardent. In turn, this makes practical training exercises in preparation to face them difficult. It is for this reason that trainees of the Ardent so often find themselves tested against one another. Just as an eidolon can be anything, so too can a mage. In finding solutions to the magic and ingenuity of each other, we hope to prepare them for the chaos of real combat wi...
2025-04-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“The majority of species encountered across the universe have thus far been relatively similar. Offshoots from some common progenitor perhaps, or simply a matter of the same evolutionary niche being filled in a similar way. Yet there are of course exceptions to every rule. The Ghol species of the eastern arm for instance. A sentient species born not of carbon, but silicate, with environmental demands to match.”
—The Others, Karth Veilbohr
His stomach droppe...
2025-04-23 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Healing magic is much abused by society. Used as a replacement for proper care more often than not. Just as any mind mage is forced to undergo a full scan of their own consciousness prior to being licensed to work on others, so too should every individual in the Empyrean be forced to heal from a broken bone without the use of magic. Give them the perspective on what we achieve, and on how long it takes their body to do the same, and we can only hope that a deeper understanding might be...
2025-04-21 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“There is an inverse value attached to any given object or achievement based in how easy it was to achieve. The most treasured things in the world hold value only for their owner, and only because of the sentiment they attach to them.”
—The Necessity, Valtoris Blackstar
Mira was there to catch him when he landed. If she had been smiling, he would have been certain that she was just a figment of his imagination rather than a ghost, but her expression was one...
2025-04-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“Fringe experiments in chronomancy aside, time is the one resource that none of us will ever get back. Through study of magic and the ensuing improvements to our bodies, we can prolong our lifespans far beyond what is considered natural, even maintaining the appearance and capabilities of youth as the centuries pass, but none of that is relevant when the specific moment that you need has already passed you by. Eyes are ever turned to the future, to what we shall build and what we shall ...
2025-04-16 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“Minimum unit sizes of three are to be used when squads are to be deployed in direct contact with Eidolons. This eliminates the likelihood of affinity lockout, reduces the dangers of mental domination and also any risk of agents going rogue by conventional means. The optimal team size is nine, as this will provide the widest spread of capabilities, and bolster morale, but three is acceptable in crisis situations where reinforcement is not possible.”
—Operation Manual,...
2025-04-14 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“A man can be healed within hours of his injury. The cruelty of fate reversed, if it is reached in time. But beyond that we discover the world of prosthetics, amputations and transplantation.”
—Aspirational Healing, Dr. Coodler
The flight spell seized him, launched him up and out of the crowd. Straight up as fast as it could carry him. The probing tendrils of the Gaunts had made a mess of his skin, puncture holes oozed blood all over him, but as he soared i...
2025-04-11 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“There are many things that they don’t tell you about waging war in a squad. Things that the textbooks and lecturers overlook and sidestep because they find them distasteful, or harmful to morale. Members of your team are going to die. It is inevitable. Members of your team are going to break in the face of the enemy. They are going to show cowardice, and run, and fail to follow orders, and put all of you in jeopardy. These are irrefutable facts that are so uncomfortable to face, that...
2025-04-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“It is easy to be deceived into seeing something that is not there. Pattern recognition was a vital asset for our ancestors trying to survive in a hostile world, and it has been carried forward and praised vastly through almost all sapient civilizations. But this same capability renders us susceptible to deception. We will see a pattern even when there is none. We will derive a picture from the chaos of random shapes. Faces in wood-grain. Dragons in the clouds. Constellations in ...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“If repetition is the mother of learning then failure is its father. But while those who pursue the lesser disciplines can make full use of both of education’s parents, the mage is limited to repetition alone. Failure in most fields is not immediately lethal, while for the mage protected by modern medicine and wards, failure is their most likely cause of death.”
—The Argument for Unification, Albrecht Magnus
Everything on Sylvas schedule that morning had ...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“In the heat of battle it can be difficult to tell friend from foe. For this reason, soldiers wear uniforms. This may produce some confusion, as you might come to believe that anyone not wearing the same uniform as you is the source of danger, when in fact the most hazardous person on any battlefield is the one wearing an almost identical uniform to you. The only difference is often found in the addition of a few stripes or stars to indicate that they are the officers about to or...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“The reason that rapid advancement through the circles of magic is discouraged should be self-evident. The mana base is destabilized each time an additional circle is added, and by rushing the addition of circles the risk of a breach is increased. This is the short-term danger of such rapid advancement, but the long-term harm is much more insidious. Even if the mage manages to survive through the rapid expansion of their mana core and maintain stable circles, their actual abiliti...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“Magic is an art. Magic is beauty. Magic is grace. Magic is everything and anything that the user projects onto it. An artist sees every spell as the brushstrokes of creation, a builder sees every spell as a building block that they’ll use to construct a more beautiful world. Magic is a tool, and for a soldier, every tool is a weapon.”
—Treatise VII of Practical Combat Magic, Fal’Vaelith
Sylvas stared down at the slate for a moment, being careful not to...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“Thy legend was born in the shadow of the beast.
Marked with their sign. All dust in the wind.
Thy strength was forged in the shadow of the beast.
Strength within. Echoes without.
Loathe greatest of all when beasts’ shadows are gone.
No longer in shadow, the shadow in thee.
Breaker of stars, devourer of gods. Haunted triumphs none would crave.”
— Prophecy of Aion Origin
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2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“Much has been said of the Eidolon. Much speculation has been made to its purpose in the universal order. Its fundamental nature. What will drives them to do as they do. I say to you this, of the Eidolon. It does not matter. It does not matter why they exist. It does not matter what they might want. It does not matter what they do. So far as we are concerned, the only thing that matters about an Eidolon is that they can be killed. And it’s from that single point that we find ou...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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“While there have been many theoretical treatise written on the subject of temporal magic, the practicality of it has always escaped us. The amount of power required to overturn the pull of gravity, or the heat of a flame is negligible in comparison to how much that would be needed to reverse causality. This is not to say that experiments in this area have been entirely unsuccessful or that the study of the subject has not borne fruit in a variety of other areas; indeed we have t...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Magic as an art has always developed on every world with species capable of attaining sentience. The particular format in which knowledge of magic was conveyed between practitioners and their acolytes varied based upon the culture and species, but most common by far was the medieval pattern of apprenticeship. A single master, passing down knowledge to multiple journeymen who would then attain mastership themselves and carry on the expansion of that particular branch of knowledge. In a mod...
2025-04-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!
With today's epilogue chapter being released, it now marks the official end of Volume 2 for free readers! I hope that you've all enjoyed the story so far! I truly appreciate all of your support in getting this far, I wouldn't be able to do this all without you!
As we are ending this volume I have two announcements and a request for you all.
Starting off with the announcements:
First off, Volume 2 will remain available for everyone's reading pleasure...
2025-03-26 17:47:58 +0000 UTC
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Valtoris Blackstar was training. There were some who said such things were pointless, that his power was in his empire now, not in the strength of his flesh, or the reach of his magic. But they did not say that these things were pointless to their emperor’s face. It was well known how much he reveled in his own personal progression, and how he encouraged it in others. There were some that said you could not rise in his court if you didn’t first rise to at least the fifth circle. Though on...
2025-03-05 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I am happy to announce that Starbreaker: Volume 1 is now available for your reading and listening pleasure! (At least for those of you who haven't already read it ahead of time)
In any case, if you are looking to get an official copy of the story, it’s now available in ebook and audio on Amazon and A...
2025-03-04 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Yet in the Eidolon we find nothing unique. It is a creature, arcane where others are biological. It requires sustenance, arcane where others require chemical. There is little to distinguish it from the product of any known planet’s evolution. Barring one thing. The capability that all Eidolons share, and that all other creatures lack. The reason that they are feared and reviled above all else. Any mage can reign down destruction. Any mage can tear a planetary body into pieces and sca...
2025-03-03 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“How do you kill a world? Is a world even a living thing that can be killed? In the abstract it would seem the answer is no. It is simply a sphere of solid matter in a vast expanse of emptiness. Yet there are worlds we know to be dead. And creatures that we know to be capable of killing them.”
—The Eidolon, Albrecht Magnus
With a massive push of mana, Sylvas pulled the death-trap back out of Cold Storage and dropped it on Malachai.
The orb of d...
2025-02-28 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“Hating yourself is part of being leader. So is being hated. Your job is not to be everyone’s friend. Your job is to complete your mission at whatever cost has been deemed acceptable. More often than not, that means people will die. In dire circumstances, that might mean all of you, so long as victory is achieved. It’s a cost that might have you rethinking your definition of victory after a few of those missions. It might have you rethinking your relationships with those around you ...
2025-02-26 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“It is impossible for any worldsoul to bear an affinity, for the simple reason that a world cannot exist except as a holistic whole. To remove death from a world would be as destabilizing as to remove life. To remove fire, or air, or water or earth… the universe is in a state of balance that cannot be disrupted if it is meant to persist, and some argue that this is why the interplanetary mana tidal network actually exists. To transfer those affinities that a world produces in excess a...
2025-02-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I hope you have all been enjoying the story so far!
I am writing here for those who are still reading Volume 1 of the story and letting you know that the story will be stubbed/paywalled in roughly 24 hours on Feb 25th. From that point on it will only be available to Wanderer Tier or higher subscribers here or over on My Website or for those who purchase the book on 2025-02-24 15:02:38 +0000 UTC
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“No matter how good you are. No matter how hard you train. Eventually you will hit the wall. This isn’t through any fault of yours. Circumstances and ability very rarely align, and even less so in combat.”
—Squad Tactics, Fal’Vaelith
“Plan? What do you mean plan? There are two steps left.” Gharia countered before counting off the steps on her clawed hand. “One: Find necromancer. Two: Kick ass.”
“There’s more than just that. We n...
2025-02-14 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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“Relic worlds stand as a testament to how far it is necessary for us to go to defend ourselves against the Eidolon menace. They show sophisticated culture, technology and magic existed across the universe and has come into being over and over again throughout its expansion, yet each of them fell. There is no threshold that a people should not cross if it rids them of the Eidolons. No price to great.”
—Requiem For the Vanished, Luvid Hagen
With the ar...
2025-02-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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