I relaxed slightly. Perhaps it was paranoia, but a part of me had feared that a spirit of a cemetery buried deep within the earth would ask for something like human sacrifices or something of the s...
2025-09-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You reneged on our deal,” Meadow said calmly, taking a long sip from her gourd. “Why?”
It had taken a while for her to be able to have this conversation. The power level of the...
2025-09-22 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMetal. Metal. Metal! My personal favorite of all essence types, as any loyal viewer knows. Heart’s truth, it’s the type I aspected to. Its pneuma tends to be incredibly solid and defensive, eve...
2025-09-20 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe balance of essence within the spirit is important, which is why it’s easier to just aspect your essence to one element. Balancing two is harder, but doable, which is why there are plenty of P...
2025-09-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAir essence. A flexible type, similar to water in that way. Most air primals got a highly versatile set of status conditions, buffs, and debuffs. It’s also known for its speed boosting abilities ...
2025-09-18 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostActing on instinct, I flickered out of the way, only for the shade to turn and tilt its head. It was only then that I realized that it hadn’t been a shadow attack, but rather a shade. I gently re...
2025-09-17 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI Foxstepped out of the way as a spike of bone slammed into the space where my head had been a mere moment before. I spun and leapt to the side, even as I started to cycle Mantle Dragonfyre, and th...
2025-09-16 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostDown and down I went. When I passed the thirteenth sealed story, I was accosted by a shade attempting to suck me dry of death mana, like some sort of strange mana vampire. It was powerful, too, wel...
2025-09-15 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSome believe that the first tournament was the start of the downfall of the Tamer’s Consortium. Though its stated purpose was to gather funding and identify talented up and coming tamers that cou...
2025-09-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostEarth essence, sturdy as a rock. It might not have the highest magical energy density, nor the best type matchups, but it’s a solid choice regardless. I promise that’s the last intentional eart...
2025-09-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe question ‘are essence hearts sapient, or just sentient with weird abilities to connect to primals and people’, is a difficult one that’s been debated among philosophers – both armchair ...
2025-09-11 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA part of me was tempted to blast my mana senses down as deep as I could, and then just immediately teleport down. After all, the deeper I went, the more concentrated the death magic would become, ...
2025-09-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Isle of Fitiavana was entirely unlike any other nation I’d been to before. To be fair, that was true for all of the countries I’d visited, but I found that Fitiavana was more extreme than m...
2025-09-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Is there any way I could split them? Maybe I cou–”
“No,” Meadow said firmly. “The point of the gate carving is to unify your mana-garden and channel your power as one into ...
2025-09-08 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAlright y’all, it’s time for water essence. There are probably more water Primals than any other type of Primal on the planet, given the number of oceanic essence hearts out there, but it’s o...
2025-09-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGhosts are what happens when a magian attempts to steal the ousia of other living creatures in a foolhardy attempt to extend their own life. It works, at first, but with each successive cast, the b...
2025-09-05 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! I am happy to announce the next book in the Mana Mirror series, The Third Gate. To celebrate, I have put up the first two books for free on Amazon!
If you can, please ...
2025-09-04 17:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostI normally try to split the difference, but with no way to do that, I'm just gonna roll off.
2025-09-04 17:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostFire essence! One of the more unusual types for primals to possess, but one of the most common types that magians aspect their essence. I think we all have a decent idea of what fire actually is. O...
2025-09-04 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me nearly another two weeks before I had reached the level of speed and skill within the Elysian Mastery Tournament Orb that I was ready to step through and challenge the Arcanist level sce...
2025-09-03 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI stepped through a cloud of ash, Dusk casting a spell that held off the waves of deadly smoke and smog, then into view of the final fourth gate challenge. I’d seen him before, a tall man wearing...
2025-09-02 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the days on the boat ticked by, I focused in on my training, both in general magic, and in combat specifically.
When it came to my general magical skills, the biggest thing I did was...
2025-09-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostUhhh… Captain? This is [audio indecipherable]. I’m pretty sure that I just saw something moving out there, and now my body feels really stra
Uhhh… Captain? This is [audio indecipherable...
2025-08-30 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNull element essence is often seen as what happens to raw essence when it settles down, and becomes less chaotic. Indeed, those of you in the audience who have raw essence are capable of learning t...
2025-08-29 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhy, exactly, does training yourself beyond your limits create a massive rush of essence when you stop to rest? Why does defeating a magian
Why, exactly, does training yourself beyond your li...
2025-08-28 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cì Kè stalked forward, moving through the shadows, their domain weapon held in one hand, their suicide talisman wrapped around their other, and their Flowers’ Shadows Layer Over Each Other ...
2025-08-27 12:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostOrykson returned at eight the following morning, holding an old-fashioned lantern, the sort that burned oil, rather than using ambient energy or having an enchanted mana core. The lamp’s glass wa...
2025-08-27 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA few days after we returned to the boat, after it had set sail down the coast, charting a course to loop around the unclaimed lands near Kijani, cut through Tyrannosaurus Archipelligo, and then ba...
2025-08-26 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI picked up the mushroom and stuffed it into my mouth, munching down on the oddly squishy natural treasure. It reminded me a bit too much of a meaty aspic that had fallen into the dirt for me to re...
2025-08-25 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe design of most augtech, outside of implants, is far bulkier than the Pre-Arrival technology it replaced. Some postulate that the inclusion of anima cores is why, and while that was initially tr...
2025-08-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post