When is book 2 coming?

It’s already finished! I’m working on editing right now, which is my least favorite part of the process. Once I have it fully edited, I need to have it professionally proofread. Once my artist is finished with the cover, I’ll have the preview up here on the site. Look forward to it!

The ending of the book felt abrupt… what’s up with that?

I wasn’t really given a choice. The book was actually twice as long, and was meant to be consumed in one piece. The problem is I’m a no-name author at this stage in my career, and my publisher didn’t want to spend the money to print a giant book to an audience of an unknown size. If it’s ever up to me, I’ll definitely print an edition where both books are mashed together into the single tome they were meant to be read from!

There’s some info in the book that never really matters. why?

It’ll all matter in book 2. Because, again, book 2 is just the second half of my original manuscript. I’ll never write exposition just for the sake of it. It’ll either matter later, or serve as solid world-building, which a lot of my readers love (and they’re vocal about it).

how long does it take mages to fill their magic reserve after completely expending it?

You have a completely empty magic reserve. It slowly starts to fill back up. But magic stimulates and grows itself, so the more you have at the moment the faster it replenishes. So someone with small magic reserves like Gill would refill completely within about 45 minutes. Someone on the opposite end of the spectrum like Atlas would take closer to a few hours. But because of the way magic stimulates itself, if Atlas casts one spell, he'd be back to full within 10 minutes or so. If Gill did the same, it'd take him closer to 30 minutes because he'd be nearly emptying himself. Does this make sense? I smell toast.