Firebrand

Martel's only ambition is to become a Weathermage and ensure good harvests for his family — but first he must graduate from the Imperial School of Magic. He arrives as a rural outsider, twice the age of most novices, with no experience of the capital's treachery. He carries a dangerous secret: he is fire-touched. If discovered, the Empire will conscript him into their wars. Plenty of students and masters are already looking for a reason to see him fail. But they all underestimate him at their own risk.

Experience the tale of Martel the reluctant fire mage in the Firebrand LitRPG Series. Join him from his humble beginnings as a hapless novice at a Magic Academy. This is character-focused and light-hearted progression fantasy at its finest, with a detailed magic system and a world filled with detail.

After the devastating events of winter, Martel's first year is at an end — and his secret is out. He must wear the red robes of a fire acolyte and begin training to become a battlemage. His dreams of working the weather are ruined; at year's end, he will be sent to war. The streets of Morcaster are also dangerous. The Pact between the Nine Lords is tenuous, and a war between crime lords threatens Martel's friends among the city's poor. When a relic is stolen that could shatter the Pact, Martel may be the only mage who can prevent blood running in the streets.

Martel's days at the Lyceum are drawing to a close. Before he graduates as a battlemage and is assigned to a legion fighting the Empire's war, loose ends must be tied up — including the feuding Nine Lords, who keep entangling the acolyte in their schemes. More urgently, the maleficar who has haunted Morcaster for years has returned. After numerous dead ends, Martel gets one last chance to unmask the evil wizard and end their reign of terror. The truth leads deep beneath Morcaster and back to the destroyed city of Archen.

Wearing the uniform of a battlemage, Martel is posted to the most dangerous position in Legio X Astra — where all battlemages die within months. Defending the Savena delta means endless skirmishes against Khivan sharpshooters eager to claim a mage as their bounty, while the legate is allied with the troublesome Duke Cheval. Martel's only consolation is Eleanor, who has defied her family to become his protector. Together, the pair faces a long campaign on the Khivan front as the war enters its thirteenth year with no end in sight. Martel must use every spell, alchemical trick, and act of subterfuge he knows simply to survive.

After a year of grueling war, Martel has fled the Tenth Legion and the suicide mission they intended for him. Now the Asterian legions hunt him as a deserter, trapping him between inquisitors to the west and Khivan sharpshooters to the east. But he is not alone. Eleanor has chosen loyalty to Martel above all obligations to the legion, emperor, and realm. Together, the pair of renegades faces the full might of the Empire as the battlemage and his protector ignite the fires of civil war.

Martel's war is over. The corrupt High Council has been replaced, his soldiers will not be punished, and peace reigns. Given the chance to remain in power, he relinquishes it — knowing his presence in Morcaster would only cause further strife. Free of obligations for the first time, Martel looks to explore the world. Eleanor, who sacrificed status and family ties to stand beside him, remains his steadfast companion. Together they embark on a journey across the continent and open seas, from Tyria to Sindhu and beyond.

After years of adventure, Martel and Eleanor reunite with the Archean mage Atreus, who needs their help for the most dangerous mission yet: a journey into Archen itself. The ancient city of magic lies in ruins, haunted by the calamities of its past and filled with undead monsters. Worse things lurk in the depths — threats the continent has not known for ages. Together, the trio must face the dangers of Archen, and Martel can take the final step toward becoming an archmage.