Tag: Magic
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The Hive Reads… Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Welcome to the sixth instalment of our ‘Hive Reads’ feature! (You can read the others here.) After settling on Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho ... -
Rescue Remedy by T.O. Munro (Part Four)
Part One Part Two Part Three Rycard’s retainer was fortunately still too enchanted by Elise’s spell to object when she told him she needed to pass ... -
Rescue Remedy by T.O. Munro (Part Three)
Part one Part two Elise’s frustration grew with the lateness of the hour, while the jumped-up steward just would not understand. The thinning patience of the ... -
Rescue Remedy by T.O. Munro (Part Two)
Maia’s address took Elise to a well-to-do, if not quite affluent, street where town houses on either side clambered three storeys high, each floor overreaching its ... -
Rescue Remedy by T.O. Munro (Part One)
Elise tore the leaves from the unkempt hedge, scoring and crushing them in a fury too fierce for patience. Sharp-nailed fingers scratched the waxy surfaces until ... -
Martial Arts and Magic, Part 4: Qigong and Inner Power
Part 4, all right! If you haven’t read the previous installments, here are the links: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I’m going to start ... -
Martial Arts and Magic, Part 3: Internal VS. External Styles
All right, here we go again–talking about martial arts, movement, and magic systems! If you haven’t read the previous articles in this series, Part 1 is ... -
Martial Arts as Magic, Part 2: Baguazhang and the Basics
Welcome to Part 2 of my mini-series on creating magic systems based on movement and martial arts! If you didn’t read Part 1, start here, you ... -
Martial Arts as Magic, Part 1: Yoga and Arhat Fist
Fantasy runs on tropes. In fact, the clichés are so deeply embedded in the genre that you can make a splash by carefully noting them (“okay, ... -
Evil and the Tao of Earthsea
Note: Ursula LeGuin died this year. She was my favorite fantasy writer, if only because she wrote Wizard of Earthsea. I think I’ve written more articles ...
