History Literature / TheSpellmongerSeries

* The Spellmonger

* ColonelBadass: Bold Asgus, Commander of the Orohan's band. This man oozes command and confidence. Proficient with almost all weapons, he is a one man wave of death on the field of battle. [[{{Baddass}} The man killed a troll by himself]]. [[UpToEleven with 1 hit!]]

* ColonelBadass: Bold Asgus, Commander of the Orohan's band. This man oozes command and confidence. Proficient with almost all weapons, he is a one man wave of death on the field of battle. [[Baddass The man killed a troll by himself]]. [[UpToEleven with 1 hit!]]

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Even after Minalan becomes an ennobled magelord, He is still known throughout the land as "The Spellmonger"

* Anti-MagicalFaction: The Royal Censorate of Magic is this, only instead of banning all magic, they only ban illegal magic and hunting down unregistered magi.

* AGodAmI: The dead god has declared himself the living god-emperor of the gurvani

Currently there are 4 full books: The Spellmonger, Warmage, Magelord, and Knights Magi.

-->'''Minalan:'''[I] ended up saving almost everyone using a powerful spell through a mystical tear in the fabric of the universes fueled by a four hour long session of magically powerful sex. With my ex-Girlfriend.

* BoisterousBruiser: A lot of the combat oriented warmagi come close to this, but Azar definitely takes the cake.
-->'''Azar:''' 1000 cavalry and 5 warmagi against 90,000 goblins? Sure I'll do it captain! I'm sure we'll be able to save some for you to have fun with!

* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Even after Minalan becomes an enobled magelord, He is still known throughout the land as "The Spellmonger"

** In the 3rd, he uses all of his previous skills to prove himself a true leader of men, as he consolidates and grows both his magical and political power immensly

* LostColony: Originally, the planet was solely populated by the various Alka species (Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, etc). At some point between 500 and 1000 years, humanity was "spawned from the void", and split into two groups-- the Magocracy, which formed an alliance with the Elves and eventually gained magic from exposure to a certain native tree and crystallized forms of its sap, and the barbarians, which moved into un-forested and unpopulated steppes without the native trees and thus never gained magic until they conquered and moved into the duchies.

[[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Then one night Minalan is forced to pick up his mageblade again]] to defend his adopted home from the vanguard of an army of goblins – [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent gurvani]], they call themselves – bent on a [[FinalSolution genocidal crusade against all mankind]]. On top of that, the goblin shamans were armed with [[AppliedPhlebotinum irionite]] a type of amber that grants immense magical power; more than has been seen since the days of the ancient [[TheEmpire Imperial]] {{Magocracy}} – and their [[EldritchAbomination leader, a mysterious, vengeful force of hate and dark magic]], is headed directly to Boval valley. The good people of Boval and their spellmonger have only one choice, to [[TheSiege hole up in the over-sized Boval Castle]] and hope they can endure a siege against hundreds of thousands.

* AmplifierArtifact:Irionite/Witchstone this incredibly rare form of amber has the power to amplify magical energy by a ridiculous degree. It is so powerful that just owning a piece basically makes you more powerful than every non-irionite owning mage on the planet.

Also of note is the way the story is told. Every other chapter alternates between two stories. In the the first book, the story alternates between the current storyline, and Minalan's origin story. In the second book, Each story is half of the effort to put together a military campaign against the goblins, with one half being the actual military campaign, and the other being the Political drama-esque story of intrigue necessary to put together and fund the campaign.

This story deserves a lot of praise for managing to turn what, at first glance, seems to be one of the most generic and predictable fantasy plot-lines into a tremendously enjoyable and original work, mostly because of the author's superb world building, and the stunning amount of realism and attention to detail in both the military and political arenas. Its like the fantasy equivalent of Hard Sci-fi

* BoisterousBruiser: Alot of the combat oriented warmagi come close to this, but Azar definitely takes the cake.

** CharacterFilibuster and AuthorFilibuster: Pretty much any time Penny has more than one line in a conversation, prepare yourself for ten to fifteen pages of lecture on economics 001 or politics 001. How necessary any given piece of exposition is is somewhat arguable, but it's worth noting that the author tends to condense all of her conversations to one-paragraph summaries in the third volume.

** [[spoiler: Until book three that is, then several do a spell that transforms their bodies too look like what their look like if they're [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]] had human bodies and they look exactly like classic Elves.]]

** [[spoiler]] Until book three that is, then several do a spell that transforms their bodies too look like what their look like if they're [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]] had human bodies and they look exactly like classic Elves.[[/spoiler]]

Spellmonger is the first book in the aptly named Spellmonger series, written by Terry Mancour. However, it was only published digitally in the catalogue of the Amazon Kindle store.

* AmplifierArtifact:Irionite/Witchstone this incredibly rare form of amber has the power to amplify magical energy by a rediculous degree. It is so powerful that just owning a piece basically makes you more powerful than every non-irionite owning mage on the planet.