A Hope Brighter Than Any Magic

Two questions for you!

1. I just started combing through Novus videos so I only know the full lore up through Lemuria, are there any works of yours that I should wait on to avoid spoilers? (I don't necessarily care deeply about spoilers but I'm just curious)

2. Is there a particular order (chronological lore or your personal preference) I should read your stuff in? If not, do you have a recommendation of maybe where to start if I'm new here?

Hopefully I'm doing this right, I'm still dipping my toe into fanfic for the first time 😅

Thank you! :)

:D!!!

I’m assuming you’re reading Ignis Fatuus in Regno Magiae and not Caccia Alle Stelle.

So the thing with Foolish Fire is that I skip the majority of arc 4. There is one fic that takes place at the start of Karamelle but it’s barely about Karamelle it’s about the Wizard finding a puppy in a trash can. A lot of where Arc 4 would be is sort of padded out by some noncanon stuff. The fics are listed in chronological order so anything listed after A Deal is when you’ll wanna stop if you don’t want spoilers for Selenopolis and Darkmoor.

The series is TECHNICALLY multiple oneshots so even though it’s listed in chronological order you’re gonna be jumping around a lot. Like, uh, arc 1 consists of early Wizard City, there is one scene in Marleybone and then a fic in Dragonspyre. I wasn’t really intending a coherent continuity but then I wrote so much it ended up that way. You’ll probably have to do a bit of inferring/guessing what happened in between stuff.

I try to stay mostly canon compliant but there’s a ripple effect where because I write the young Wizard as a full character rather than an insert, they tend to make more explicit choices and that changes how other people behave in turn. So if something occasionally goes differently you’re not misremembering canon, someone probably made a different choice or a mistake they otherwise didn’t.

The fics are of… varying quality because I was either experimenting or just fucking around to cool down from writing my psychological thriller novel, but if I had to recommend…

Prologus is probably a good start if you want a baseline for this particular young Wizard’s character and starting point (though their personality flips by arc 3)

Fatum Surculi is the tutorial adapted but it’s heavily emotional/headcanon dense

Once Unto Grief just got a HEAVY overhaul and it’s an adaptation of the Shadow magic ritual from Khrysalis

I consider Tamen Credo and Shroud a two-parter but it’s awesome if you like emotional agony

Madness, Properly is TECHNICALLY post Darkmoor but it barely has anything to do with Darkmoor and it is my favorite in terms of sheer comedy factor