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Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent

Author:
D.N. NewynAlternative names:
Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally IncompetentGenre:
ComedySource:
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OngoingBasic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent
>em>[This series is set in the same Academy as this one: How To Train Your Dungeoneers. It is recommended that you read both to understand the full world building. It’s not necessary to read both to understand individual stories, however.]>/em>
>span style="font-weight: 400">He can’t conjure grief, can barely levitate a pebble, and once submitted a stanza instead of a spell schematic. Meet Fabrisse Kestovar: aspiring >span style="text-decoration: line-through">thaumaturge>/span> rock collector, confirmed pastry enthusiast, professional bird whisperer, and perhaps the least emotionally competent student in the Order’s seven-hundred-year history.>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Which makes it all the more confusing when an ancient magical relic suddenly wakes up after forty-seven years of silence, launches itself across a holy sanctum, and crashes into his face.>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Now bonded to a forgotten epochal calibration system buried beneath layers of ritual and myth, Fabrisse gains access to the PRAXIS NODE, a long-dormant, possibly AI-driven interface that delivers cryptic quests, sarcastic prompts, and calibration objectives measured in light-years. He has a Legacy Token, no combat thresholds, and a growing collection of useless rocks the system insists are ‘historically significant.’>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">He’s also the only one who can see any of it.>/span>
>b>Features:>/b>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Weak to less weak to (maybe) strong MC>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">A magic system based on emotional resonance>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">A cosmic tutorial disguised as a sacred rite>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">System messages with a personality disorder>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Balance between crunchy numbers and intuitive magic learning>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Slow-burn progression, and slow-burn romance>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Spell mnemonics that rhyme on purpose>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">A chosen one who really, >/span>>i>>span style="font-weight: 400">really>/span>>/i>>span style="font-weight: 400"> shouldn’t be>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">And the ugliest magic rocks you’ve ever seen>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Find me on my Discord server (a shared server with other fics I write)!>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">Also posted on ScribbleHub and Fenrirealm. If you find this work anywhere else, it has been uploaded without permission.>/span>
>span style="font-weight: 400">>strong>[400,000 WORDS ALREADY WRITTEN AND POSTED ON PATREON]>/strong>>/span>
Chapter List
- Chapter 0: I will become a thaumaturge
- Chapter 1: Bunsen was a good dog
- Chapter 2: That is a stone
- Chapter 3: I can go into theoretical strata research if I know enough about rocks
- Chapter 4: The Eidralith has, for forty-seven years, done absolutely nothing
- Chapter 5: Did anyone else see the box fly at my face?
- Chapter 6: Calibrating meat vessel
- Chapter 7: This interface is referred to as the System, not “glyph”
- Chapter 8: 54% Determination + 29% Stupenstone Core + 14% Pacing Synchronization = Burden of Stones
- Chapter 9: Why are you casting spells with your armpits?
- Chapter 10: Synod forgive me, I’ve lit my sister on fire
- Chapter 11: Quadraligned Fabrisse Kestovar, Binder of Realms, Slayer of Paperwork
- Chapter 12: Primary Aether Path: Celestial Hoarding
- Chapter 13: Hi, Fabriiii~
- Chapter 14: Why don’t you have a single skill that deals damage?
- Chapter 15: I found your freckles!
- Chapter 16: Why’s the mnemonic so cringy?
- Chapter 17: He still looks like a wet goblin
- Chapter 18: Oh, I am the stuff
- Chapter 19: I will show you
- Chapter 20: What it really does
- Chapter 21: Emotional Memory Recovered: Determined Shame
- Chapter 22: Are you just spinning it in a circle?
- Chapter 23: He launched the Stone with resonance, intent, concordance!
- Chapter 24: Cope, seethe, mald
- Chapter 25: The wards on this window are outdated and very climbable
- Chapter 26: Do I look like a bird to you?
- Chapter 27: Distraction is a failure of internal discipline
- Chapter 28: It started when I smashed my face into a stack of pebbles
- Chapter 29: You were so still, the Archive categorized you as a shelf
- Chapter 30: I need to borrow Kestovar
- Chapter 31: I didn’t expect him to be . . . short
- Headmaster Draeth’s Announcement #1
- Chapter 32: “Quack,” the bird said
- Chapter 33: I’ll need to smack Cuman in the head soon
- Chapter 34: Show me you’re serious
- Chapter 35: Drink 2 liters of water a day
- Chapter 36: Gimme my WATER!
- Min Hajin‘s Research Notes #1
- Chapter 37: That looks like a doodle
- Chapter 38: I can’t compete with real effort
- Chapter 39: Stone Thaumaturgy is stupid
- Chapter 40: Kestovar. You’re with me.
- Chapter 41: Is it narcissism if I am actually just better than everyone?
- Chapter 42: Severa Montreal aura farming
- Chapter 43: Stand against the wind
- Chapter 44: What if High Instructants become collectibles?
- Archmagus Rolen‘s Revision #1
- Chapter 45: It was, unfortunately, a chicken
- Chapter 46: It was imperative that Cuman got stoned
