My newest project is FINALLY coming together, it’s a fantasy-mystery about a practitioner of stigmatized healing magic who gets framed for murder and the noble who stands up to champion her defense
The healing magic is stigmatized because it is basically magical surgery, it’s long and slow and gory— they call it flesh smithing.
Also when I say ‘champion’, I mean in the ‘someone who fights in your place in a duel’ sense!
There’s a trial by combat you can call on, but you aren’t allowed to use your own magic— you have to channel it through somebody else, who is ritualistically binding themselves to you for life in order to allow this. It can’t be a family member or anyone with your magic type, but is always someone who has enough faith in your innocence to risk their life on it. Basically, you need a VERY committed character reference.
The protagonist has Noah, a mage she went to school with. They were not friends, but she helped him once, and he’s carried that act of kindness with him for a LONG time. Everyone is shocked when he volunteers.
Sampo thoughts sampopilled sampobrained brain full of sampo sampo koski sampo koski RAHGRGHHH sampo KOSKIIIII that WHORE that VIXEN my WIFE the love of my LIFE SAMPO KOSKIIII
The most gorgeous man in the world the most infuriating punchable face on the planet the most loveable man to ever exist OHHHH how i hate sampo koski but OHHHH HOW I LOVE HIMMMMM RHAGGHH
wow…ahead of its time (and ahead of its host)
Kermit knew you could pick your own gender, and is now finding out that there are more options in that category than previously suspected
