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What is your favorite magic school? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fantasy@lemmy.ml

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Can be anything from Hogwarts (the most obvious one) to Scholomance, Brakebills, anything else you can think of. Would you attend it yourself?

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I enjoyed the magic system in Patrick Rothfuss' books. It felt relatively believable/grounded, and I liked the concept of learning the "true name" of things.

[–] papajohn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His ideas on magic were awesome. I liked the binding system as well. I recently read R. F. Kuang’s book Babel. She has a different take on “binding” using similarities of meanings and multiple meanings of words from different languages. It was a very neat book, though it was reminiscent of the magic in the realm of Temerant. I recommend it.

[–] Atramentous@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Babel didn’t grip me as a book, but the magic system using word pairs was so novel and cool.