#Magic System

3 books tagged with magic system, sorted by rating.

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The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

5/5

Fantasy

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Fantasy

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Fantasy

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson

5/5

On the shattered plains of Roshar, a war rages for gemhearts that power magical fabrials. Kaladin, a former soldier turned slave, struggles to survive and protect his men. Meanwhile, scholar Shallan seeks an apprenticeship with the heretic Jasnah Kholin, and highprince Dalinar is haunted by visions of an ancient past.

Fantasy

Babel

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

In an alternate 1830s Britain, Robin Swift, an orphan brought from Canton, is trained at Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. There, translators power the Empire's magic by engraving silver bars with pairs of words whose meanings don't quite match. As Robin learns what his work is used for, he has to choose between Babel and the people it helps exploit.

Fantasy

Katabasis

by R. F. Kuang

4/5

Alice Law, a graduate student in magick at Cambridge, needs her advisor's recommendation for her career, but Professor Jacob Grimes has died in a magical accident. So she sets out to travel through Hell and bring his soul back, joined by her academic rival, Peter Murdoch.

Fantasy