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Mom Shea

May 04, 2023 at 06:16 PM UTC


I love your Magiford series! I enjoyed Your explanations of the different metrics, and how they work. I’ve told all of my book reading friends about the series and your other series also. Several of them have started reading them and enjoyed them.

Amy

April 24, 2023 at 09:30 PM UTC


So exciting to read more about elves and to know what could happen in future books. Enjoy these series so much! Thank you.

Hi-D

April 24, 2023 at 07:55 PM UTC


I love this! When I was reading I was just thinking of how unexpectedly COOL the elf magic was, particularly Noctus’ transformations. Those scenes are the kind you can SEE and I think that’s awesome.
Also, the difference in perception of magic is always something I thought was so super neat. The sensations vs the sound – loved it!
I can’t wait to see what comes next in the series. And to share my own absolute crackpot theory, what if the uncles are supernaturals like the Ancient and so on? I think I’d die of laughter ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

claudia

April 22, 2023 at 11:47 AM UTC


I love all your series of Magicford, I can´r wait to see what happen to Shiloh and obviously what real rol the Paragon is going to portrait since that has been his goal since book 1… Do you have any estimated date of release?

Abby

April 22, 2023 at 02:45 AM UTC


Yeah, the uncles…
Are they elves too? A secret guard that stands watch over Shiloh? Posted by Noctus, or from Shiloh’s mother’s court?

Thank you, THANK YOU! I don’t think I could have stomached another anime transformation. And yes, the weapons, at least Truck, is super-cool. 😉

Patti G

April 21, 2023 at 11:51 PM UTC


I LOVE this explanation of the Calor Villa elves! And how you made them a beautiful, powerful part of the lovely wedding at the end of the trilogy 💕. Thank you so much for sharing your literary worlds with us and helping us feel a part of them.
Hoping you continue to rest and heal sweetie!👍💕

Rebecca

April 21, 2023 at 10:34 PM UTC


When are you going back to Enchantress-in-Training Angelique??

Chris

April 23, 2023 at 03:28 AM UTC


I believe kitty said 2024 or so. Retha is the next big book she’s writing.
If you look on the main page of this website it has a future books thingie? That tells you the lineup of the next 2 years or so! 😉

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Chikorita12345

April 22, 2023 at 09:54 PM UTC


I love the Magiford series, but Angelique is amazing too! Waiting hopefully for the next book in her series!!!

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Katrina Karaninsky

April 22, 2023 at 01:04 AM UTC


Exactly!! I’m also waiting for the next book of Angelique! I am super excited to see what will happen next in the series.

Abby

April 22, 2023 at 02:48 AM UTC


Love Angelique, but RETHA NEXT PLEASE!
No, I know you needed to do more Magiford, but really, totally missing on Retha. Cannot stop laughing every time I read it! By far, your funniest series 🤣 😂 😆 🤣

Magiford Universe: Calor Villa Elves

Today we’re going to talk about elves, and specifically their magic since it’s the very heart of this proud and powerful race.


Magiford Supernatural City Elves

To begin with, when I started thinking of the various magic systems I would need for the Magiford world, I wanted to make magic feel vastly different between the various species. Holy hills, did I sweat over the elves.


Firstly, I knew I needed my elves to be powerful, but I also knew from the get-go that I wanted them to believe that wizards were magic’s favorite, so I had to shape two distinctly different magics that both had huge possibilities while making it seem like human magic isn’t as flashy/cool as even fae magic.


Additionally, I knew I needed elf magic to have what they would view as a great weakness—which would explain why they coveted human magic so much.


I settled on making elven magic song/sound based instead of sensation based like it is for all our wizard/human heroines, and having their strength be greatly affected by their personal emotions. Sadness would put magic out of their reach, making it impossible to use, while anger would make magic almost uncontrollable and dangerous to the wielder.

This would be plenty to make the arrogant elves upset. First of all, because it meant they weren’t infallible and even the most powerful of elves could fall, and second of all because—as arrogant as they were—they would never like admitting they had feelings.


I also decided that elves would also be the only race that would have different types of magic, specifically the elven royal family specialties, like the Auron family’s tattoos/summoning, and the Mors’ ability to use super-powered artifacts like Destruction.


Believe it or not, the hardest part about the magical weapons was keeping them amazing and cool. I had to work desperately hard to keep any weapon transformations from being something closer to a Japanese anime magic girl transformation—a Japanese trope in which a high school aged girl has an object of some sort that makes her transform from her regular street clothes to a fantastical outfit that is basically her superhero identity. (I don’t know if time freezes or what during these transformations, or why no one recognizes the magic girl when she finishes the transformation even though 90% of the time she looks the same and is just wearing different clothes, that’s just part of the trope.)

We’re going to explore elven magic in future Magiford trilogies, but Noctus is a model example as he’s one of the very few powerful elves who isn’t also a raging ego-maniac, which means he’s an example of the best they can be. (Well…when he’s not wearing the silly magic restraints the Paragon insists he wear, that is.)


Noctus’s story also hints at the vast difference between the modern elves living in Calor Villa, and the historical elves that the rest of the supernatural community declared war against. While elves in history had highly specialized magic and considered themselves the rulers of Earth, Noctus’s elves are much more interested in living peacefully with the humans and avoiding supernaturals as much as possible.


Most of them don’t have the prejudices against Chloe being a shadow that the elves of yore would have, and while they’re inherently awed of their stoic ruler, they do care for him on a very personal basis. (Mostly because they’re very aware that without him to power the barriers of the city they’d be toast, but in general they’re aware of everything Noctus has done for the sake of magic.)


Noctus’s elves—as we will see in the future—are very different from their remaining brethren. But that’s because they rallied around Noctus, who chose to fight his family because he knew their plans were arrogant, greedy, and would cause destruction on a massive scale. Any of the elves who are more ruthless–like the elf who sent a spy to watch Noctus in book 1–didn’t choose to follow Noctus.


Even among the elves of Calor Villa, however, you can still see shadows of what they were–particularly in elves like Oleander, who has adapted to living with humans but is able to snap back to her training as a Mors soldier in an instant.


So far we’ve seen the best of elves, but in future trilogies we’re going to see the tragedy of their hubris and arrogance and how it has affected those who haven’t sided with Noctus. Which, wow, that sounds like a real downer, doesn’t it? But it is me, so I’ll tackle their issues with the same kind of humor and antics I face everything with! Besides, everyone now knows that Shiloh is the elf princess the Paragon is searching for, so we all also know it’s no accident that Noctus lives across the street from her…which might make you wonder how “accidental” it is that the uncles hang out on their porch and chat with her all the time live there, too…


Thanks for reading, Champions! Until next time, have a delightful day!

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