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Comment on One-Third by Mike

Thu, 04/02/2026 - 10:00

A wise man once asked a rhetorical question like this: who by worrying can add a single hour to their life?

Excited to read #4 and #5

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44: Life Sigls (I) by Kevin Nuckols

Wed, 04/01/2026 - 04:02

In reply to Benedict.

Meant to say how not why!

Hopefully I got most of them right, I am a little unsure of what rank Ivy’s are and perhaps Lucella used a different more nastier sigl.

Plus little things like this help the wiki, it really is quite impressive I don’t think Alex Verus has one!

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44: Life Sigls (I) by Benedict

Tue, 03/31/2026 - 23:55

In reply to Kevin.

Pretty good!

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44: Life Sigls (I) by Kevin

Tue, 03/31/2026 - 23:48

Hey along with being a wonderful edition to the series I think we have seen all these sigls before! I think these characters have the following

Scar and Disel B rank Strength sigl/Ajax.

I guess maybe A to S Rank increases your strength to 2 to 3 times what you can lift?

Calhoun B rank Reflex.

Given that it can help with adrenaline I see why Calhoun prefers this over a Motion sigl that could do the same.

Lucella C+ Rank Stun

I think this was the Life Effect she used in Book One?

Ivy C rank Stun and D+ rank Cat’s eye.

The only one who has two Life sigls, I guess she is good at Light and Life? She might have a higher’s Cat’s Eye if her family is wealthy but I get the feeling they might not be too generous. Or Ivy would rather do itself and accept the bare minimum?

How close why I guessing the sigls?

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44: Life Sigls (I) by Bill

Tue, 03/31/2026 - 18:58

Thanks for another very insightful summary of the major Life Sigl effects. I am very much looking forward to the story continuing in Book#4 but it still seems a long way in the future…

I hope that you restarted penning Book#5 and that it is well on schedule for a November 27 release!

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #44: Life Sigls (I) by Brianna

Fri, 03/27/2026 - 23:24

In reply to Celia.

Maybe a Light sigl that allows you to project a blinding field around an enemy’s eyes, similar to the Haywire Stephen uses to mess with strength sigls?

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Comment on Book #5 and Long-Term Plans by Edmund Wong

Sun, 03/22/2026 - 03:32

Hi Benedict!
I was so looking for another epic 12 book series. But since you have worked out how the story will tie it all together, I am grateful for it. I will looking forward to it been put together in the next few books coming out before the Olympic Games 2032 in Brisbane, Australia

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Comment on Book #5 and Long-Term Plans by Bill

Fri, 03/20/2026 - 18:38

Thank you for the update and I think that I “sort of” understand although not completely as your post had to, by necessity, avoid spoilers! I pretty pleased that you now have the whole series mapped out, at least in your head and will (probably?) be better prepared for the rest of the series and hence keep to the annual timeline!

Thanks again & good luck when you start writing again, I assuming there was nothing nasty in the Book#4 edits to be worried about…?

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Comment on Book #5 and Long-Term Plans by Jaidev Singh dhariwal

Fri, 03/20/2026 - 14:20

Thank you so much for ur work boss u are the best. Silly question, can i be in ur book as character

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Jim Sackman

Mon, 03/16/2026 - 23:03

So, let me understand the types of Life Sigils we have seen.

Continuous Sigils – The Armsmen and Hobbs. They work on free essentia and direct it via the sigil to work on whatever it is supposed to work on. Unless, of course, you have a Haywire Sigil.

Triggered Sigils – The drucraft Doctor. These work when activated on a subject that the wearer channels essentia through to direct to perform something on either themselves or a 3rd party. This is the case the skill of the channeler matters. I assume medical drucrafters have a range of Sigils to work on different parts/systems of the body.

Somebody like Stephen could make a death Sigil, because he is not being paid for his shaping. Right?

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Comment on One-Third by Edmund Wong

Mon, 03/16/2026 - 08:04

Your blogs on Beginners guide to Drucraft speaks volume of the in depth background knowledge behind writing the books of IoM. I realize reading your novels I have barely scratch the surface of what it TAKES TO WRITE A NOVEL
Keep at it

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Benedict

Sun, 03/15/2026 - 20:13

In reply to Bill.

I usually don’t settle on a name until after the edits are done, since to me it’s just “part 4 of the ongoing story”.

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Bill

Sun, 03/15/2026 - 10:26

In reply to Bill.

Also any news on the Book#4 edits or even a projected title for Book#4? It’s frustrating for a book to be just known as “4” rather than having an exciting/evocative title!

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Bill

Sun, 03/15/2026 - 10:20

Life Sigls enhance (or impair) the way that the human body functions then is there a way to produce Sigls that improve the various drucraft skills?

Will the Hobbs and Joanna characters feature more in Book#4/#5? I was rather hoping that these characters would appear more in the developing storyline…

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Valentin

Sat, 03/14/2026 - 08:59

Is it practically used when developing a new sigl to use a nervous systhem enhancing sigl to get better results? I must but wonder, if having ten people sitting around a manifester and enhancing them would give better results?

I assume one could also get the protegé status easier, with such a setup?

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Brianna

Sat, 03/14/2026 - 00:34

Do the planetary associations have any actual meaning of some kind? Or is it just old mythology that carries over from when drucraft was probably thought of in more religious/mystical terms?

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Comment on A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #43: Life Essentia by Jason Enberg

Fri, 03/13/2026 - 18:24

Could a life sigl related to the nervous system be used to limit / dampen pain reception? Or it that too precise? Can the pain signals be dampened without dampening other nerve function?

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Comment on One-Third by Rich W

Fri, 03/06/2026 - 17:04

Thank you forbthe update!

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Comment on One-Third by Bill

Fri, 03/06/2026 - 16:42

So pleased to hear that a regular annual release of IoM looks feasible again! Congratulations for keeping on with book#5 rather than waiting for the Book#4 edits before proceeding – it looks a winning strategy!

Thanks for keeping us informed and fingers crossed that “Early March” Edits are minor and don’t impact your new writing now that its going so well! (any idea why the edits were so long in coming this time?)

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Comment on One-Third by Sean

Fri, 03/06/2026 - 12:08

“I’ll be able to keep up my one-a-year target after all” You were CONCERNED about nothing.

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