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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 47: Then they retreat dramatically into the sunset
- Chapter 48: She eats pie too?
- Chapter 48.1: Can’t you buy another pear?
- Chapter 48.2: I don’t fall. I merely descend with urgency.
- Chapter 48.3: By the ballsacks of the Synod, Kestovar!
- Chapter 48.4: You are to be my friend for the night
- Chapter 48.5: Did you hand-pick your friends, or does this one just happen to look like your crush?
- Chapter 48.6: Who cares about someone else’s friendship?
- Chapter 48.7: Why did you tackle the cat?
- Chapter 48.8: Meow meow
- Chapter 48.9: Finding the cat gives me meaningful progression
- Chapter 48.10: Severa would rather meow at a cat than apologize to him
- Chapter 49: I don’t want to hear your excuses unless it’s ‘chip chip’
- Chapter 50: The whole world has a personal vendetta against me!
- Chapter 51: Rock-solid performance
- Chapter 52: Shortcuts are for show-offs and corpses
- Chapter 53: Assistant Hajin told me to, uh, meditate
- Chapter 54: Can I harmonize with you, Liene?
- Chapter 55: Fabri threw rocks at bullies without telling me
- Chapter 55.2: The great bearer of the Eidralith in the noble pursuit of picking rocks (NEW CONTENT)
- Chapter 55.3: Please don’t talk unless it’s something important, like rocks
- Chapter 55.4: Earth Thaumaturgy really is redundant
- Chapter 55.5: Good morning, good day, goodbye
- Chapter 55.6: Do you eat food?
- Chapter 55.7: That’s what happens when you don’t eat
- Chapter 56: Why are my sidequests all nonsense?
- Chapter 57: I need to touch his nose so bad
- Chapter 58: If the artifact told you to touch my nose, I can only assume it’s scentient
- Chapter 59: Every Professor’s favorite student pairing
- Chapter 60: Fabrisse Kestovar and the Infinity Gauntlet
- Headmaster Draeth’s Announcement #2
- Headmaster Draeth’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT Announcement #1
- Chapter 61: Who’s my girlfriend? (1)
- Chapter 61: Who’s my girlfriend? (2)
- Chapter 62: We ride at dusk!
- Chapter 63: Now go put the remaining five thousand Skitterwhits into your jar
- Chapter 64: Why did you murder my child?
- Chapter 65: If you want to . . .
- Chapter 66: You’re not mad, you’re just misunderstood
- Chapter 67: Don’t think, just cast
- Chapter 68: I see we’re having . . . an educational moment
- Headmaster Draeth’s Announcement #3
- Chapter 69: Nice
- Chapter 70: Imagine what you could do with actual talent
- Chapter 71: It’s my ritual hat
- Chapter 72: One must not skimp on the reverence
- Chapter 73: You must have one happy moment in your life, right?
- Chapter 74: How do I know you’re not just harvesting my trauma for sport?
- Chapter 75: Of course. Bask.
- Chapter 76: It’s the petal hugger!
