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Impractical Magic

Welcome to Istima, the Six Court Academy. Study, survive, and hold your secrets close.

This is a serialized web fiction about three students in Istima, the Six Court Academy, where the different branches of magic have come together in an ancient city-school floating between mountain peaks and above the storm sea. The engraving students learn to steal patents and defend their homework from untrustworthy professors. The Winter Court battles for their spots in the rankings. The healers-in-training stretch trip cords across the highest stairs so they can practice enough to earn an internship. And no one has a clue what is happening in the Night Court, but it involves self-induced psychosis, inter-dimensional summoning, and more hallucinogens than anyone is comfortable with.

Study, survive, and hold your secrets close.

Yam is a Len whose nomadic people value truth and community above all else. He has decided that the only way to restore his family’s status is to become indistinguishable from a god and retroactively make his father a prophet instead of a lying cult leader.

Cal is a street thief impersonating a young, wealthy noblewoman she found dead when attempting to burglarize a room. She only hopes to rob the rich mages and maybe pick up a trick or two before she inevitably has to skip town.

Lyssana was born with the wrong kind of abilities and exiled to a faraway island of elemental magic users. She has been called back by her wealthy family and placed in Istima for a purpose she has yet to learn.

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