A Mage Reborn, Book Two (WIP) - UPDATED August 7th | Book One Released!

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Just finished the game with my new MC (high enchantment and spirit, saved all the kids and the plague victims) and feel like I’ve been through the damned wringer.

It was odd playing it knowing the end of it already, something I always prefer, to be honest. But as someone who loathes bad and sad endings (and endings where the good guy dies and is treated like crap), I was glad I knew ahead of time. If I had played this game without knowing ahead of time my MC would be burned alive and betrayed by the guy she fell in love with, I would have been irate and bitching everywhere possible about it. Since I knew (and knew she’d be back), it was enjoyable. In a perverted kinda way.

My poor MC (the second go 'round) was 94% emotional, 85% noble, pretty damned charming, fairly optimistic (in the beginning), and had an 88% with the man who punched her in the face and had her burned alive. After being punched, spit on, hit with rotten vegetables, cursed, and burned alive, she retained her emotional nature, but the nobility is, I believe, gone (at least with anyone from Param, save Ilya and Saine). And her slightly optimistic nature has turned sour. Not to mention she now has PTSD, but whatever…

My take on the situation at the end of book 1....
  1. Leon: fuck that guy. Seriously, fuck him with a chainsaw shoved straight up his ass and pulled out through the top of his head. As a reader, I hate him now. He never gave the MC a chance after she constantly bled for him and the people of Param.

All “oh he couldn’t know” is a load of crap. They live in a world where magic can destroy cities and, more importantly, know that Sister had people mind-controlled and it never dawned on this obnoxious sack of crap that the MC could’ve had the same done to her to keep her silent? He never even tried to find out the truth. No one can convince me that that spoiled bastard loves the MC after that–not after she did all she did for him and his people and then begged him to believe her innocence. Had he one decent bone in his body, he would’ve been fighting to find out what really happened, throwing Ilya into researching what was really going on because the woman he supposedly loved would never have done what she did without reason.

I cannot even begin to express just how much I loathe him now. He’s a weak little boy, not a man. And what he did ripped my MC’s heart out and shredded it into a trillion pieces because all she wanted was to know that he really did love her and believed in her. In the end, he did neither. Dick! I really hope the MC has a chance to kill him at some point, or at least torture him to death. Though, honestly, given how my MC developed, I (sadly) don’t think she’d do it (she even spoke up for the baron, much to my dismay). She might kick him in the nuts, sneer, and walk away, though, then refuse to ever have anything to do with him again.

  1. Ilya: Love her. Before playing, I thought I (the reader) and my MC would want everyone in Param dead. I was wrong. Ilya was a true friend and a good person, to the end. My MC didn’t tell her to forgive Leon and doesn’t want her to do so. I am hoping Ilya can be persuaded away from Leon altogether.

  2. Saine! Such a sweetie! I need to make another run (a more official one) where my MC spends more time with him. She wanted to, but I forced her to raise stats because I didn’t trust the stat checks. I have more of a feel how to go about it now, I think, so she can spend time with all of her friends. Well, her two friends and her betrayer.

  3. Ante. While it’s possible my MC won’t want to torture Leon to death (she really did love him, though that’s gone now), she would torture this bitch to death. Don’t trust her and can’t stand her. And I think she was plotting against the MC. Hate her almost as much as Leon.

  4. The people of Param. Okay, so they don’t need to die since they weren’t responsible for putting the MC to death, but my MC is done helping them. Period. Got a plague? Too fucking bad. Kids need rescuing? Good luck to you. Kingdom falling apart? My MC will roast some popcorn over the fires while it burns. Not. One. More. Drop. Of. Blood. For. Those. Assholes. Not one.

  5. The epilogue. Seriously, it just made me love Ilya more. That she dedicated her time to proving the MC’s innocence, then made a point of spreading word of it to everyone… it was just… it gave me the feels. Saine’s reaction also gave me the feels. Aunt Bess’s made me teary (love that woman).

But Leon’s? Pfft. Nice of him to stand over where he roasted her and say nice words. Too bad it doesn’t undo a damned thing. And too bad the MC doesn’t know it (though she’d likely scoff at how little their hollow sentiments matter now). I just wish Leon had pulled a Tommen (Game of Thrones) and walked out a window high in a building.

Now to play the bk 2 demo after plugging in my mage’s stats to see how well they work and what I need to change to make her more useful to Falco, Yu, and Eli. Hopefully this “found family” won’t murder her like Leon did.

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literally all of that was ante’s fault. If she hadn’t got in the way the original plan wasn’t to kill the saintess. That only happened because the mc didn’t have the mana after fighting ante’s little group to properly break the curse hence it was either kill the saintess or do nothing at that point.

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@Abhorash
Yeah, I know. Also, thanks to Ante’s wasting the MC’s time with her BS, the detonation spell began to go off, and there wasn’t enough time to undo the spell which forced the MC to resort to ending the Saintess Shiraya’s life to stop it.

@EvilChani

Yeah, I also hate Ante. She is the reason the MC couldn’t work on undoing Mireil’s detonation spell and had to resort to ending the Saintess Shiraya’s life to stop it from going off. And I bet she must be rejoicing when she thought she has finally uncovered the MC’s “true colour” and managed to put the MC to death. And I bet when the truth finally came out, thanks to Ilya’s hard work, she probably just went “Oops! My bad.” or something. Or maybe she doesn’t even care. “They’re already dead. What’s done is done.” Ante has better not cross path with my MC again, because while my MC is very kind-hearted and forgiving, that MF is one of the few people he CANNOT forgive! He is gonna LOVE ending her if he ever sees her again.

LOL. Same. Again, Ilya was right when she said Param doesn’t deserve more from the MC. I’m also done with that nation.

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It kinda works for my mage’s angst. Being really good at Thaum and total obliteration, but lacking in other practical areas despite being a scholar. They feel like a weapon of mass destruction, a monster and nothing else. So getting railroaded into war where that’s all they are good for just digs at them. They want to be more, but their penchant for murder has stuck them in a role they loathe.

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I can see that. Given the story, though, I was aiming for a MC that achieved great things and saved everyone possible so everyone turning on her would hit harder. I had intended for her to turn into a psycho afterwards (ready to kill anyone who had gone against her), but it doesn’t seem she’s going that route. Though, thankfully, she could not care less about Param now, except for Ilya, Saine, and Aunt Bess.

Leon, she hates. All that love she felt soured when he failed to stand by her, so now she just loathes him. Still hope she can and would kill him, given the opportunity, though. If not, then leaving him all alone with no one left to care about him, no riches, and no honor would work. Whatever the case, I (the reader) want him utterly destroyed. And I’d love to see people in Param come begging for her help so she can tell them to go fuck themselves–they burned that bridge, so they can die knowing that it was their choice that brought their own downfall.

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I must admit, my opinions on the whole Leon question are in part contextualized by the fact that he was never an RO for me, just my old friend and commander. I suppose that takes a lot of the charge out of it.

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Personally these are one of my favorites I’m sorry but my Shakespearean soul craves for tragedy. I like to see how everyone drowns on their guilt ( and Leon, specially Leon) for what they did to MC when everything they wanted was to save them from destruction as the good person they are ( or were…)

As it says Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones, because regret is stronger than gratitude . Is a quote that really fits with MC’s back story. The fact that we can come back from the dead to remind them of their foolish mistake is even better for me.

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I feel like my MC in the minority camp that doesn’t hate Ante at all. Ante was doing her job protecting the Saintess. And we did kinda murder a bunch of people. Sure it was on accident, but they’re still dead by the mage’s hand at the end of the day. It was a perfect storm of fatal inconveniences and my mage doesn’t have the heart to hold it against anyone.

Personally, I’m a SUCKER for the trope of a person having gone through hell and deciding to be kind in the face of it all. The world was awful to MC, but still, MC chose and will continue to choose to be what they want to see in the world. “Some flowers bloom where the green grass grows. Our praise is not for them, but the ones who bloom in the bitter snow.” From Hadestown really inspired my MC.

I will say, if Eli does end up agreeing to destroy Param, then the conversation between my MC, Ante, and Leon would probably end up going like this.

“It wasn’t personal.”

“Well, neither is this Earthsworn: Origin.”

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I wonder if we’ll be able to step out of the follower role in the future.

Because, we’ve always served others’ causes, first Param and now Arcadia.

It is a bit annoying how the MC doesn’t seems to have any personal ambitions or plans.

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That’s very sad but it’s true, MC had always been a tool for other people desires. Spent their childhood as a test rabbit for this crazy man, running away from his also crazy daughter who wanted to kill her, fighting for Leon and Param, going on a wild goose chase against the clock TO SAVE Param, and even after facing death they are brought back to fight for a cause they never agreed.

All they ever wanted was some peace, and the most close they were to that was with Aunt Bess or that short period with the white fangs before discovering they were royalty.

After all they been through it makes sense that all MCs want is some peace.

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Well dependant on what you were proficient in, you don’t have to murder anyone at all so Ante quite literally changes her dialogue on what you did iirc, she ended up wasting my time and I ended up doing her and her people in, it was unfortunate but it was either that or everyone dies regardless. She wasn’t really doing her job, she had just suspected us from the start without any decent reasoning besides that we’re “mysterious” and have a “mysterious” background. I literally put everyone to sleep and Ante still attacked me even after I attempted to talk her down. But anyone can feel free to correct me if I’m in the wrong.

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It’s always nice to see some concentrated Ante hate

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To be fair to Ante, drugging the entire squadron of paladins isn’t really a good look.

But yes, I’m pretty sure Ante will confront the mage no matter what option is chosen to get past the paladins.

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Better than painful death my MC gave them xD

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I don’t think so either, it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type of situation but maybe I’d feel different if we actually got the chance to know Ante but I honestly doubt it.

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I’m 99% sure Ante will have “I did the right thing and you know it” attitude when we meet her. When the fact about us working with Arcadia will be known to her she will go “See? I was right about them this whole time and no one believed me! You should feel ashamed for trying to guilt-trip me!”

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But ok jokes aside he is probably pissed at her haha

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Or putting the entire squadron of paladins to sleep. XD

Holy moly. What did you do to make their death painful? XD

Oh, Ante won’t have the chance to learn that. The first thing Imma do when I see her again is ending her. No word will be said to her if I can help it.

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I’m trying to catch up on all of the books I have missed out on so I played the first one last night and binged it. I loved Leon, I’ll admit, and my plan was to remain loyal to him despite everything. But then I played the demo and met Yusuha and well… sorry Leon but maybe you shouldn’t have burned me alive. Also I absolutely adore Ilya.

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Ante: See?! I was rig-

Earthsworn: Black Sun activated it was super effective! No traces remains of Ante after this.
everyone in attendance: holy shit please don’t kill us either.

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