Monthly Archives: June 2024

DragonCon Online Interview

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Benedict

Inheritance of Magic 3 is coming along, and up to 70,000 words.  Still aiming to be done by the end of the summer. In the meantime, I did an online interview with Carol Malcom, from DragonCon’s Urban Fantasy track.  You … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #21:  Sigl Creation (Tracing)

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Benedict

Tracing means creating a sigl with the aid of a limiter.  It was a niche and rarely-used technique through most of human history, but advances made in the 19th and 20th centuries caused its popularity to soar.  Nowadays, the vast … Continue reading →

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Risen in Germany, and DragonCon Interview

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Benedict

Several bits of news for this week! First, as you may have already guessed from the image, the twelfth and final Alex Verus book is at last being released in its German translation this coming week (Monday 17th June for … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #20: Sigl Creation (Manifesting)

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Benedict

Sigls are created through the third of the drucraft disciplines – shaping.  Shaping is the art of manipulating free essentia (typically, though not always, in a Well) and causing it to crystallise into a piece of solid essentia, otherwise known … Continue reading →

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