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Capital Letters Are Magic: Used constantly to refer to the schools of magic, their practitioners, and the use of magical powers.

In the first book alone, we see blood-fueled spells to blast enemies backwards, teleport, divine someone's location, heal yourself.the list goes on.

Blood Magic: A major part of Excision.

Even though it could conceivably be used to heal people, everyone who practices it seems to invariably descend into Mad Doctor territory or worse. Black Magic: Excision, the magic channeled through human flesh, is presented as this.While all the other schools of magic are widely practiced and accepted, Excision (flesh magic) is completely banned.and with good reason. Also type A1 (partial ban, certain schools).A magician-in-training who somehow loses their apprenticeship is pretty much out of luck, even though they have already bonded with a material by that point. The entire process takes three to eight years. To get a license, a would-be magician must graduate from an expensive prep school and then serve an apprenticeship under a senior magician. Only licensed magicians can practice magic professionally. Type A2 (partial ban, certain people).Age-Gap Romance: At the start of the first book, Ceony is nineteen and Thane is thirty.

Abnormal Ammo: A Smelter can enchant a bullet to never miss its mark.

Alvie is an apprentice Polymaker (plastic magician) from the U.S. The fourth book focuses on a new character, Alvie Brechenmacher. In addition to her course of training, Ceony must deal with both external threats from practitioners of dark magic, and her own increasingly romantic feelings towards the man training her. Thane is a Folder, a magician specializing in paper, and so Ceony becomes one as well. The first three books in the series follow the apprenticeship of Ceony Twill, a gifted young woman in early 1900s Britain, to the senior magician Emery Thane. The bonding is irreversible, and a magician who has taken one bond cannot take another. A magician begins their career by bonding with a specific type of material (metal, glass, rubber, plastic, etc.), and thereafter they do all their magic on or with that material.

All magic in the setting is channeled through man-made materials. The series is set in a world where magic is a fairly commonplace and respected profession, like law or medicine. Holmberg, as well as the name of the first book in that series. The Paper Magician is the name of a series of 2010s fantasy/romance novels by Charlie N.