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<blockquote data-quote="zakael19" data-source="post: 9733603" data-attributes="member: 7044099">Matthew Swift is late 2000s London, and honestly more impactful to how I’ve crafted my setup then anything else. The author does things with melding magic and urbanity that nobody else does. (The words of bureaucratese turned into spells of binding? Ample use of gas mains and electricity and wires and so forth to replace classic spells, animating the signs of city life as powerful wards using spray paint to do it fast, urban dryads that live in streetlights - the trees of a city, golems of garbage and twisting flying flocking trashbags, trolls that live under the motorway bridges and scare speeding / reckless drivers,&nbsp; a deep love for the life and magic of a modern city). Alex Verus is also England, but somewhat more typical Mages and Wizards slinging spells around (with some neat quirks). Still hidden from the Mundane world, with a wizarding world split between “Light and Dark” wizards (but that’s more about what magic you’ll use then altruism or anything).October Daye is the protag of a fae-focused series in California. Great stuff, lots of fun ideas about faerieland and the modern world colliding.Twenty Palaces veers a little more into horror / Lovecraft stuff but in a totally unique way. Really neat ideas, the author also has a lovely little novella of quiet magic in Seattle called “A Key, An Egg, an Unfortunate Remark” that has my favorite take on idiosyncratic vampires almost as an aside.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zakael19, post: 9733603, member: 7044099"] Matthew Swift is late 2000s London, and honestly more impactful to how I’ve crafted my setup then anything else. The author does things with melding magic and urbanity that nobody else does. (The words of bureaucratese turned into spells of binding? Ample use of gas mains and electricity and wires and so forth to replace classic spells, animating the signs of city life as powerful wards using spray paint to do it fast, urban dryads that live in streetlights - the trees of a city, golems of garbage and twisting flying flocking trashbags, trolls that live under the motorway bridges and scare speeding / reckless drivers, a deep love for the life and magic of a modern city). Alex Verus is also England, but somewhat more typical Mages and Wizards slinging spells around (with some neat quirks). Still hidden from the Mundane world, with a wizarding world split between “Light and Dark” wizards (but that’s more about what magic you’ll use then altruism or anything). October Daye is the protag of a fae-focused series in California. Great stuff, lots of fun ideas about faerieland and the modern world colliding. Twenty Palaces veers a little more into horror / Lovecraft stuff but in a totally unique way. Really neat ideas, the author also has a lovely little novella of quiet magic in Seattle called “A Key, An Egg, an Unfortunate Remark” that has my favorite take on idiosyncratic vampires almost as an aside. [/QUOTE]

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