

Gardnerian Light Mages, however, can use all the runes of every race. Mixed-race people like Na'bee (who is half-Smaragdalfar and half-Ishkart) can use both. All Your Powers Combined: Ordinarily, rune-sorcerers can only use the runes of their respective race, and no other.Aerith and Bob: There are names like Diana, Jarod, Iris, Gareth and Clover, and then there's names like Carnissa, Elloren, Yvan, Alcippe and Olilly.And a high-level Gardnerian Mage without a wand may as well have no magic at all, unless they can get their hands on one. As a result, if a Gardnerian soldier's wand is stolen, broken or destroyed, the Gardnerian is helpless, unless they have some other form of weapon or martial arts skill.

Achilles' Heel: Gardnerians can only work magic by way of wands.Abhorrent Admirer: Fallon Bane is obsessed with wandfasting to Lukas Grey, despite the fact that Lukas is not at all interested in her.Two prequel novellas, Wandfasted and Light Mage, first published as e-books and later collected in The Rebel Mages (2019).Not only that, but evil is looming, and Elloren discovers that her best hopes may lie with people who have every reason to hate her and her people. But university isn't all it's cracked up to be for the granddaughter of such an infamous woman. When Ren gets the chance to follow her brothers to Verpax University, the first time in her life she's been outside of Gardneria, she leaps at the opportunity to try and get out of the shadow of her grandmother's legacy. A prophecy dictates that there will be another Black Witch, and some people think that's Elloren, but she is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical power above all else. The first book was published in 2017.Įlloren Gardner is the spitting image of her late grandmother Carnissa Gardner, the Black Witch who defeated Gardneria's enemies in the Realm War. The Black Witch Chronicles is a YA fantasy series by Laurie Forest.
