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Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent

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D.N. NewynAlternative names:
Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally IncompetentGenre:
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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 122: You’re the first boy I’ve met who could make limestone sound fascinating
- Chapter 123: Allegedly, you slept with my daughter
- Chapter 124: Stone, Silent
- Chapter 125: How about we happen to be on a date tonight at nine?
- Chapter 126: You can’t hoard my friends too
- Chapter 127: And maybe that weird boy needed a friend
- Chapter 128: You look so pretty
- Chapter 129: Mother! Sis brought home another rock nerd again!
- How To Train Your Dungeoneers
- Chapter 130: They have a JAR of Stupenstone?
- Chapter 131: Are you of age for work?
- Chapter 132: I am now an adequate spellcaster
- Chapter 133: I don’t want to lie to myself tonight
- Chapter 134: This will probably be weird, Fabrisse
- Chapter 135: His hair’s silkier than mine
- Chapter 136: Basic Thaumaturgy for the Emotionally Incompetent
- Bonus Content 1: The Meeting by the North Pond
- Book 2 Pre-Announcement
- Book 2, Chapter 1: By fire, be purged!
- Book 2, Chapter 2: I can’t afford fun right now
- Book 2, Chapter 3: But you didn’t do anything
- Book 2, Chapter 4: You’re not scared of a couple of shiny bracelets, are you?
- Book 2, Chapter 5: What’s the worst that could happen? Her striking up a conversation?
- Book 2, Chapter 6: Consider this my gesture of goodwill
- Book 2, Chapter 7: If you have found me harsh before, it might have been because you were below-par
- Book 2, Chapter 8: Weekends for her would probably just be another weekday
- Book 2, Chapter 9: Celestial Repository Invocation, Rank I
- Book 2, Chapter 9.1: Function first, silence second, appearances never
- Book 2, Chapter 9.2: Have you met my companion?
- Book 2, Chapter 9.3: That’s what he said
- Book 2, Chapter 9.4: Sedimental Recall Failed
- Chapter 9.5: Now that’s definitely not what happened
- Chapter 9.6: They were talking about you
- Chapter 9.7: Chivalry incarnate
- Chapter 9.8: Let’s touch grass together!
- Chapter 9.9: Oh, I am very much in trouble
- Chapter 9.10: Fate? Brought me here to look at pottery bowls?
- Book 2, Chapter 9.11: Maybe she just liked being extra
- Book 2, Chapter 9.12: Kestovar’s uniquely immune to emotional overload
- Book 2, Chapter 9.13: I’ve got rocks in the Aetherrealm
- Book 2, Chapter 9.14: Critical Kettle Damage
- Book 2, Chapter 9.15: Please spare me the attitude
- Chapter 9.16: ‘A directive’, he said
- Book 2, Chapter 9.17: Can moths get concussed?
- Book 2, Chapter 9.18: Do you have a humiliation kink?
- Book 2, Chapter 9.19: Die, Insect! (1)
- Book 2, Chapter 9.20: I’ll also die, but I get to keep my finger
- Book 2, Chapter 9.21: They don’t teach you field triage through fighting goblins
- Book 2, Chapter 9.22: I don’t want to be correct
- Book 2, Chapter 9.23: Stop the wind, Kestovar
