Benedict Jacka

In reply to Kevin.

Calhoun’s specialities are Light and Motion, but he’s a highly skilled drucrafter and, just like Stephen, he’s fully capable of using sigls from his ‘weak’ branches, too. He has a reflex-enhancing Life sigl that he carries when expecting trouble (and at other times as well).

Fascinating as always Steven hasn’t used any real Motion sigls yet and it’s nice to see some basic ones. Mark other sigls are probably a Shield and the Hurl sigl be interesting to see them in the future.

Would Calhoun using a Life reaction sigl versus a Motion speed sigl in the raid even though he specializes in Motion be because it was continuous and not triggered or is there another reason?

Interesting that Calhoun apparently uses a kinetic barrier rather than a kinetic shield. I guess doing so allows him to focus on offense as well as just defense? You’d think he’d want a sphere rather than the “curved barrier” we see in Chancery Lane though. The lack of a sphere almost got him shot in the back. And I can’t imagine he chose that shape due to financial issues? Unless Charles wants to keep him on his toes.

Woohoo!

Congrats! Exciting news!

Great news!Really looking forward to the third book, very interested to see what happens with Stephen. Looking forward to other news- cover, release date!

Very pleased that Book#4 is started and even more so that it is going well! I trust that sales of the series are holding up and that soon perhaps there will be a paperback version of An Instruction In Shadows. The Audio Books are superb with Will Watts but I still get a little extra when I read through the written word when the ‘Real’ book comes out!

Many thanks for the update, and hope that Book#4 continues to ‘flow’ well and remains enjoyable work…

Thanks again for the weekly fix of Drucraft! I assume that next week we will have some more on Motion Sigls? Waiting to see how how Calhoun can move so fast!
I hope that sales are still good for the new series? (PS: When is paperback of Book#2 due for release please?) Also I trust that edits are now ‘done’ and that you have started on Book #4 !

I love the cat!

Thanks for the update on the German Edition, very pleased that Inheritance is now multi-language as it will further ensure that we get the whole series published (when written). I also very much like the covers, and am glad that Hobbes is getting the publicity that he so richly deserves!
BTW: how are your ‘kittens’ doing? Any chance of photos?

Thank you for the overview of Motion Essentia. There are some useful features there, pity that Stephen isn’t going to be able to use his skills in this area (or have a hard time if he does!). Maybe House Ashford could fund a Sigl or two?

In reply to Bill.

Just to add, we have seen three groups of raiders in the series (four if you count Stephen’s) and only Tier had taken along a technician to extract the Essentia…

Happy New Year!

Happy New year and good luck with the planning and writing of Book#4. By the way, I love the title for the 3rd Book, I just wish that it was coming a bit (ie a lot) sooner!

I am interested in how Essentia is extracted from wells by the Raiders (and also how it is removed from unwanted Sigls too) and then stored (?) as Aurum.

By accumulating a large amount of Aurum from the wells Stephen has access to (Class D and lower?), he could presumable make some of the higher level Sigls that would conventionally need a Class ‘A’ or ‘S’ Well to construct?

Hi Benedict,

love the Inheritance of Magic series so far!
I’m especially looking forward to your articles on corporations – maybe with some hints as to how the corporations manage to keep Drucraft more or less secret from the general public, despite so many of their employees constantly using Drucraft on a global scale?

Happy new year!

Hi, happy to hear that you are starting with book 4 of Inheritance of Magic series.
I just finished the Alex Verus series in German and I absolutely loved it. It is my favourite book series of all time. Thanks
Looking forward to buy the first book of the Inheritance of Magic series in German when it releases this march.
Happy new year to everyone ❤️

Hope you had a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year!