The Limits of Magic - Terria: The Draconic Enlightenment, Book One

Jezza Puddlegum spent a decade adventuring, wrote her thesis, and finally landed the life she wanted: a classroom, a mug of khofi, and promising arcanists to play favorites with. Retirement suits her.

Then the lord of Woodpine City walks into her office and asks her a very simple, very ruinous question: should he fight for his bow?

Turns out her hometown's dogma is a funded plot. Somewhere behind the piety and the propaganda, a noble house is experimenting with stolen dragon magic, and people are disappearing to feed it. Jezza is, to her annoyance, the exact wizard for the job.

She's not doing it alone. There's Djanara, a war hero turned cargo runner who'd rather not be a legend again, but owes some very persistent ghosts a favor. There's Demi Delacroix, a countess who's spent her whole life being obeyed and is about to learn that leading and commanding aren't the same skill. And there's Olivia, a cat-folk rookie one month into adventuring, armed with a sword, a fake sense of bravado borrowed from her favorite novel, and entirely too many cupcakes.

Four strangers. One cover story. A conspiracy with claws, and something waiting deep below.

The Limits of Magic is a fantasy adventure about found family, faith weaponized and faith reclaimed, and heroism as something you perform your way into. Written with the DNA of a tabletop campaign and the heart of the people who played it.

Book 1 of Terria: The Draconic Enlightenment.

Created without AI assistance.