The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path

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Magic, the power to bend the laws of reality. All because of a mystical substance known as mana.

Mages follow the Paths to achieve power, for there is no more addictive chase. Each Path winds and twists, forcing mages through the flames of adversity and challenge. Though the operative word is "path", the reality is far less straightforward. Instead of a road, Paths are like the branches of world trees, erupting into the heavens, intertwining, and ending in sharp snaps. Only the strongest reach the sky. There are several Paths, and many Ways to walk them—variations of the same Path, and like the stars, they are endless.

Magic is the sacred flame that scours the fat, rendering the truest self. Superfluous flesh melting away to show the skeleton of one's being. A chance for ascension—apotheosis. Though not every mage works to godhood, if they survive long enough, It is inescapable.

Witness the lives of those that tread the knife's edge of self-destruction. Each one intertwined in their search for answers, revenge, and, most of all: power.

An orphan loses everything once more. The lone-survivor of a band of mercenaries, looking for adventure, has his friend taken from his clutches. The heir to a powerful bloodline uncovers the secrets to redeem his family. And many more. These individuals have all lost something. In search of filling the void left behind, they have taken up the mantle of a mage.

Per aspera ad astra.

(Through adversity to the stars.)

New chapters once every week when I feel like it. There's like a thousand pages, how can—you already read it? Goddamn. Oh, and there is a two month hiatus between volumes as I intend to edit and rewrite a lot.

What to Expect:

This story is progression fantasy, so expect a healthy dose of training, but don't expect the characters to always progress fast. Each has their own speed. It's also heavy on slice of life, and it isn't entirely plot-driven. Expect characters to live their lives, and not always be on some quest to save the world. This is also heavy on prose.

There's a lot of magic theory and discussion about it in the story. So, if you don't like impromptu lessons on sorcerous theory by traveling monster slayers, this might not be for you. But if you do like it, rejoice! For there is a lot of it.

There will be combat scenes that are brutal and horrifying. Not to be gratuitous, but quite the opposite. War and fights leave people disfigured. This is no different. Even with magic, some scars never truly fade. They are instead etched unto the soul. Beside that, there will be traumatic events that are best left unread. I do not detail certain acts I find heinous enough (like the graphic description of rape), instead leaving some parts unwritten.

This is not for the faint of heart.

Chapters with certain dark situations will have trigger warnings when I deem appropriate. If you have that specific trigger, please do not read that chapter. I do not want you to suffer and relive your trauma. And neither do I want to limit the story, as I base a lot of it in the world we live in. Evil goes, at times, unpunished. You have been warned.

And that's it, hope you enjoy.

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The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 48 Chapter 48 - The Fates III: Where Dead Ships Dwell RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 47 Chapter 47 - Sakiyn-Dahm: The Ash of Night & Flesh RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 46 Chapter 46 - The Poison of Kings: Al-Zarnickh of the Eld RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 45 Chapter 45 - A Firmament of Unfathomable Depth RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 44 Chapter 44 - The Leaden Day: A Price Paid in Full RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 43 Chapter 43 - The Ark of Man & Seeds of the Chimaera RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 42 Chapter 42 - The Fates II: The Trial of the Beasts RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 41 Chapter 41 - Alba & Aedan, The Greyen Sword of Inexorable Retribution RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 40 Chapter 40 - The Fates I: The Trial of the Grasses RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 39 Chapter 39 - Into the Maelstrom Once More RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 38 Chapter 38 - The Pyromantea Technica RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 37 Chapter 37 - Aspects of the Eldritch: Nix, Lux, Vocixes, Astra RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 36 Chapter 36 - The Arcana of War: Salt, Quicksilver & Sulfur RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 35 Chapter 35 - A Study of Black & White: Necromancy & Animancy RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 34 Chapter 34 - The Blood Of The All-Father RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 33 Chapter 33 - The Reborn Vessel & The Beast Within Made Manifest RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 32 Chapter 32 - Maleficarum: Fell Sorcery & The Dark Arts RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 31 Chapter 31 - The Pyromancer's Cuirass & The Leechmaw Ripper RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 30 Chapter 30 - The Watcher's Vigil & Dreaded Gaze RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 29 Chapter 29 - In Vengeful Wake & Toothless Maw, The Executioner's Wrath Comes RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 28 Chapter 28 - Erebus & Moonsblood, the Blacken Blade of the Eternal Night RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 27 Chapter 27 - The Lodestone Body & Sympathetic Elementalism RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 26 Chapter 26 - The Whitemoon Visage & The Bindings Of The Spirit RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 25 Chapter 25 - The Vital Breath & The Etheric Tide RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 24 Chapter 24 - The Arcaneum Censorium RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 23 Chapter 23 - Greedy Like The Wolf Come Wringin' His Wrists RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 22 Chapter 22 - The Spear of the Heavens & The Bifröstian-blaze RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 21 Chapter 21 - The Acid of the Soul RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 20 Chapter 20 - The Chain-Bound Prayer: 7, 12 RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 19 Chapter 19 - The Axe That Cuts Down World Trees RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 18 Chapter 18 - He Who Fights with Monsters RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 17 Chapter 17 - And When Practice Makes Perfect, Mastery Is Impossible RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 16 Chapter 16 - When Time Is Meaningless, Practice Does Indeed Make Perfect RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 15 Chapter 15 - Of Blood and Shadow, There Is No Escape RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 14 Chapter 14 - The Red Sparrow's Remembrance RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 13 Chapter 13 - Vibrant Red & Fumes of Death RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 12 Chapter 12 - Bloodborne, Cursed from a Blessing RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 11 Chapter 11 - Blood under the Moonlight RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 10 Chapter 10 - The Core of the Soul is Black RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 9 Chapter 9 - The Beast Within & The Mirror that Caught the Stars RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 8 Chapter 8 - A Mage's Greatest Weakness: The Mind RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 7 Chapter 7 - The Mother of Learning RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 6 Chapter 6 - Dreams Show the Home of the Soul RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 5 Chapter 5 - The Priest & the Mercenary RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 4 Chapter 4 - Awakened, Blessed from a Curse RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 3 Draft 2: Chapter 3 - Awakened, Blessed from a Curse RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 3 Chapter 3 - Unripe Fruit & Innocent Monsters RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 2 Chapter 2 - The Man Clad in Black & Darkness Made Manifest RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 2 Draft 2: Chapter 2 - Omens O' Doom, A Shadow 'Ere Looms RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 1 Draft 2: Chapter 1 - Cruel Gods Give A Soap-Maker His Feast RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path 1 Chapter 1 - The Exorcist & the Thief RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Soulcerer V: Soulceric Attunement RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Planar Confluence I: The Wheel RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Planar Confluence III: The Soul Plane RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Planar Confluence II: The Astral Void RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana VI: To Death or Divinity RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Seven Gods & Three Devils RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Aetherial Body RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Seven Gods & The Three Devils RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Metal Currency of Aardwen RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne IV: The Astralborne RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne V: The Bloodborne RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Spiritualist VI: Anatomy of the Spirit RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Follow the Branches of the World Tree, Each Fruit a Universe RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Soulcerer I RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Origins of Soulcery RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Soulcerer II: The Aura RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Soulcerer III: Magical Awakenings RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Soulcerer IV: Arcanums RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne I RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne II: The Beastborne RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist I RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist III: Emergence RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Planar Confluence: The Wheel RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Artificer I: Spirit Coins RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Arcanist RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Magical Energy, Its Aliases and History RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist II: Convergence RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist IV: Transcendence RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne III: The Hollowborne RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Way of the Phrenic RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Wizard I RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Sorcerous Index: The Child of the Stars RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Sympathist RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Wizard II: Welfontian Wizardry RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Artificer II: Magic Circuitry RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Sorcerous Index: The Child of the Stars II RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Sorcerous Index: The Child of the Stars III RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist VII: The Aetherial Body RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - The Path of the Spiritualist V: Techniques RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Mageborne III: The Astralborne RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana I: Inheritance of Heaven RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana III: Carving the Soul RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana V: Climbing the World Tree RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana II: The Gate of Gnosis RoyalRoadL
The Paths of Magic I: The Sorcerer's Path Lore - Path of the Kabbalah Arcana IV: Fractals of Spirit RoyalRoadL