OUT NOW: Spellmonger 17: Practical Adept
Grab Your Copy Now It’s harvest season, and I’m harvesting a book after a long, productive season: Practical Adept . It’s officially out now! I’m very excited about Practical Adept for a few reasons, so indulge me while I tout the book. It is intended as a bit of a psychological study of Minalan, who has endured war, death, and madness only to find that his most disturbing challenges arise from his own formative experiences. It’s an examination of PTSD in its various manifestations, at one level. On another level it is an exercise in world-building that I was excited to finally undertake. Farise has been an important element of Minalan’s personal history since the beginning of his journey as the Spellmonger, and my vision of the place has stayed more-or-less consistent, but that left me plenty of room to indulge myself in a few ways when it came to bringing us to Farise for the first time. First, I wanted to set a fantasy in a semi-tropical environment instead of a cheap copy
