Introducing T.R. Magnus: Epic Progression Fantasy Author

My title is Theophilus Monroe. Perhaps you’ve heard of me. I’ve written and printed over fifty city and paranormal fantasies. Titles like The Legacy of a Vampire Witch, The Legend of Nyx, The Blood Witch Saga, The Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged, and The Chronicles of Zoey Grimm are a few of my better-known sequence. 

My curiosity in paranormal fantasy started with authors like Anne Rice and Jim Butcher. However, rising up, I learn a whole lot of epic fantasy. I nonetheless do. I like the legends like J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I’m additionally a fan of authors like Brandon Sanderson and R.A. Salvatore. Lately, I’ve been studying a whole lot of development fantasies like Will Wight’s Cradle sequence, Shirtaloon’s He Who Fights with Monsters, and Tao Wong’s A Thousand Li. 

After devoting the higher a part of the final three years to city fantasies, I made a decision to department out. 

I’m a full-time writer. This isn’t a pastime. As I usually inform my spouse, most of my buddies are individuals I’ve made up. I spend most of my time in worlds that don’t actually exist. 

I’m at all times arising with new concepts, new worlds with distinctive magical methods. Some of those concepts are higher autos for storytelling than others. Urban fantasy is a superb style—however some tales require an entire new world, a spot with completely different magic and guidelines, completely different species. 

For the final 12 months or so I’ve been entertaining a narrative, a world and a system, that I couldn’t shake. It screamed at me within the cabinets of my thoughts, begging to be born. 

I wanted a brand new style. Urban fantasy is nice, however it wouldn’t work with this story. 

I settled on “epic progression fantasy.”  What is “progression fantasy?” It’s a time period chances are you’ll or is probably not accustomed to. It’s a cousin of LitRPG. Like a personality in a online game, the heroes in development fantasies begin out weak. They acquire energy over time, they “progress” by means of varied ranges or levels till (in some books) they attain near-divinity. It’s additionally carefully associated to xianxia (translation: Immortal Heroes), a Chinese style the place characters bear trials, meditation, or coaching to turn out to be transcendental beings.  Progression fantasies, like Kataklysm, are westernized diversifications of the identical. 

What I like about development fantasies is that each e book opens up a brand new world of chance for the hero. The hero will get stronger, so do the hero’s adversaries. Technically, “progression” fantasies might be city fantasies or excessive fantasies and epics. There are additionally development science fiction tales on the market. Good stuff. “Progression” isn’t a lot a style of its personal as it’s a explicit character arc that may slot in a wide range of genres. 

Writing on this style additionally required a distinct voice. My Urban fantasies are written within the first-person. They characteristic snarky heroes/heroines. I wanted a distinct persona, somebody who represented the brand new “voice” I found as I long-established my new story. 

Thus, T.R. Magnus was born.  Yeah, he’s nonetheless me. Don’t inform anybody.  Check out the pseudo-fictional profile for T.R. Below:  

T.R. Magnus is the elven half-brother of the city and paranormal fantasy writer Theophilus Monroe. Unlike his brother, T.R. writes immersive epics and cultivation/development fantasies. He enjoys creating expansive worlds, distinctive magical methods, and plots that favor the unfavored. T.R. goes by T.R. as a result of Thranduil Ravavaris is difficult to say. 

T.R.’s favourite colour is plaid. Ketchup is his favourite condiment. He enjoys polka music.

I do know what you’re considering. Polka music? Really. I’m not a giant fan, however T.R. loves it. I’ve to confess, it’s form of catchy. It grows on you. Give it a shot.  

T.R.’s latest sequence—Kataklysm—is now reside on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited with the primary quantity, Blightmage. 

Kataklysm is greatest thought of an epic development fantasy—however there are just a few “sci-fi” components that emerge because the gods of Ashathar are uncovered and revealed for who/what they’re.   

What if the gods have been experimenting on the world? Every three thousand  years, wiping the slate clear by means of apocalyptic catastrophe.  In Ashathar, a cycle of Kataklysms has lowered the world to just some resilient “pathwalkers” who have been compelled to adapt and evolve to outlive. 

As Ashathar’s solar failed, lowered to a “red dwarf,” darkness and blight consumed the world. The solely hope for survival are the Lightweavers, pathwalkers who’ve ascended to the next type of being, who can harness the ability of sunshine, channeling it into spires that make survival attainable. Only just a few true Lightweavers have ascended to this point and, because it usually goes, when just a few maintain such energy, such energy corrupts. 

Enter two unlikely heroes: 

Blaike is a miner. Born among the many blighted, he’s not allowed to pursue the trail. Instead, he’s compelled to work the mines to reap sunstone that the Lightweavers have to energy the spires. When he discovers a big deposit of sunstone, he’s betrayed by his taskmasters who search to take credit score for the invention themselves. Exiled and on the run, Blaike should discover his personal path within the blight. 

Ming Yue is the daughter of a Lightweaver and an achieved brewer of elixirs. As the second-born, she’s additionally forbidden from following the trail. When her brother is kidnapped by the blighted, she may be her clan’s solely hope to provide a Lightweaver for the following technology. Until a mangled and unconscious man is discovered within the blight. Is this boy actually her brother? Or, does he an imposter, positioned on the Lightweaver path in her brother’s stead. Is he a pal or an enemy?  If he’s not her brother, the place is he? Can Ming Yue save him from his blighted captors?  

Will our hero and heroine succeed? Are they the reply to saving Ashathar from tyranny? Or, are they merely topics in a divine experiment, puppets manipulated by gods? Are the gods pleasant or are they the true tyrants? 

Check it out!  Get misplaced in a brand new world. You would possibly even survive—in case you can muster up the braveness and resilience to comply with the trail.