One obvious benefit to reading this book is that there’s a ton of inspiration to be obtained from the feel of these schools of magic. For example, the laws that govern Thaumaturgy are the Principle of Sympathy, that like produces like, and the Principle of Contagion, that something removed from something else will always symbolically be a part of that something else. As well, each of the schools follows several Laws, supposedly unbreakable rules similar to the real-world laws of physics and such. Each of these schools is totally separate and distinct from the rest, with trappings, techniques, and feels that are each unique and fitting for their particular goals. in way that leans heavily on real world physics, Alchemy, which creates magical ungents and potions by drawing out the magical nature of ingredients, True Magic, which produces items of incredible magical power through lengthy and elaborate rituals, Sorcery, which allows sorcerers to control and manipulate other people, and Wizardry, the long dead school that focuses on summoning demons from other realms and dominating them into submission. They are Thaumaturgy, which manipulates energy to repair items, start fires, lift large objects, etc. The reason why, despite all of those things, I still highly recommend this book is that it’s magic system is simply phenomenal.Īs you might figure, the plot primarily revolves around the 5 schools of magic and the main character Alodar’s attempts to learn them. The story is predictable, the main character is your standard “fantasy Everyman who gets everything he strives for”, and the way the book handles its female characters is more than a little sexist. It came from the era of fantasy where paperback books whose covers showed strapping young men in leather vests defending scantily clad princesses from demons or archaic-looking sorcerers and very much fits this tone. The Master of Five Magics is not the most well known book out there. One person said “Avatar: the Last Airbender” and all of the rest said “The Master of Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy”. I once saw a panel on YouTube about magic systems in fantasy books, in which six prominent fantasy authors were in attendance, and the panelists were asked which magic system they wish they had invented first. To start things off, I want to talk about a book that is, simply put, a must read for any aspiring magicbuilder. I’m going to be focusing on books that I’ve read for the time being and will be focusing mostly on the magic systems, though I will be discussing the plot and quality of the work as a whole in a broader sense. This purpose of this post, which I hope will become a series of posts, is to review works of fantasy with interesting magic systems and discuss how those ideas can be used or adapted by aspiring magic builders.
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