Choicescript WIP Author, he/him. You can call me Adam/Parivir! (please enjoy this picture of kaneki from tokyo ghoul until i can commission an artist to draw my mc headcanons lol)
They speak in low whispers of the mage, of night terrors or a hero returned, a demon and a saint in the same breath. Heresy, said the priests; hearsay, said the lords. But the crown is silent even as the grapevines unfurl, and so the rumors swell and spread all the same.
Like wind passing through the trembling trees, certain as the coming of the dawn, the word travels through farmsteads and castles alike:
The mage lives again.
You are a talented mage on the run from your mysterious past, who becomes embroiled in a tangle of royal politics and warfare you had never seen coming.
This chain of events sees you executed for a crime you did not commit--and resurrected by a mysterious group bearing a vicious vendetta. As around you the world moves to repeat the tragedy of an age-old conflict, you must find a place for yourself in the midst of this chaos...before it claims your life once more.
Play as a man, woman, or non-binary. The game will never ask you to define your romantic or sexual inclinations; you may assess your attraction to each potential suitor as they arise.
Walk the path of a legendary mage, combining four different schools of magic to devastating effects.
Uncover the secrets of your dark heritage, and harness the tremendous powers that run through your bloodline.
Find love from among five romance options, including a warrior king, an aspiring saintess, a pair of underground revolutionaries, and a figure from your distant past.
Strike a bargain with arcane deities beyond your ken, and invoke their powers on the field of battle–at a steep price.
Shape your character’s personality, and have it influence their dialogue with others in the world.
Rise to lofty heights as the right hand of royalty, and experience a fall from grace resulting in your execution.
Take revenge against the kingdom that executed you, or seek a path to reconciliation.
Unravel the truth behind the continent’s age-old conflicts, and see its future shaped according to your influence.
LEON, THE SUN KING
Formerly the leader of the White Fangs, a band of mercenaries operating out of the Parami city of Calinger. Leon is a member of the Royal House of Param, and a celebrated war hero who liberated his nation from foreign invaders. Although in his youth he was known to have a laid-back and sunny disposition, recent events have rendered him solemn and aloof. [RO]
ILYA, HEART OF PARAM
Former healer of the White Fangs. Ilya is a priestess and foremost candidate for the position of Saintess of the Jovian Church, one of the most influential positions in all of Arvanand. She is also heiress to a noble house on the brink of ruin, and living at the edge of destitution has tempered her into a wise and dutiful young woman. [RO]
SAINE, SHADOW OF THE SUN
Brother to Leon and himself a prince of Param. Though there is a childishness and naivete to him that speaks of his youth, Saine is the model prince in nearly all aspects: he excels at his studies, observes decorum perfectly, and is a fighter talented enough to hold his own in the White Fangs. Yet the prince seems to have a strained relationship with his station in life, and is markedly resentful of those who seeks to tie him down to it. [Non-RO]
FALCO / FLYSS, THE ZEALOT
Formerly Falco/Flyss Oscionne. A young mage possessing prodigious skill in commanding the arcane, with the ambition to match. They are irascible and easily given to grandstanding, and they further seem to carry a particular dislike for you. [RO]
YUSUHA / YURUI, THE FOX GOD
Formerly Yusuha/Yurui Cheilong. A native of the Yotai Free Cities, though their maternal family tree can be traced back to Salantira. Flirtatious, kind, and easygoing to a fault, which makes them seem an odd fit for the sinister organization they work for. And though they often advocate against the crude methods of those they work with, their loyalty to the cause never seems to waver. [RO]
ELI, PLAGUE-BREAKER
A combat healer whose cold demeanor belies a heart of gold. A close confidant of yours in your childhood, Eli was present during the most traumatic moments of your life and was the only reason you survived them. Certain events compelled them to sacrifice their life to save yours; now that you’ve been miraculously reunited, they seem adamant to stay by your side at all costs. [RO]
TAHLIA, THE DARK CHRONICLER
A woman of ethereal beauty who serves as a priestess of the Ishavak Faith. Though on paper her position within the Ishavak Church is a lowly one, in truth she acts as the covert leader of its military arm. As the foremost expert on matters of the arcane, an able political strategist, and an incredible mage besides, Tahlia is perhaps the Ishavak Faith’s strongest asset in reestablishing its presence throughout Arvanand. [Non-RO]
Congratulations to @mage-parivir for the release of Book 1 of A Mage Reborn! Here’s a quick fic I threw together to celebrate.
In which Asteria and Leon have a little sleepover. Canon-compliant, pre-relationship; set a few days before the last battle of the war.
[AO3]
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It’s only with a minor amount of trepidation that Asteria finds herself ducking into Leon’s tent in the dead of night. The magic protecting the camp staves off everything but the midwinter chill. The wards part easily to let her pass, a privilege reserved exclusively for the former White Fangs—there have been one too many traitors in their ranks, something they learned the hard way after Salantira’s fifth assassination attempt.
She throws down her blanket and crawls forward in the dark. Leon’s asleep, as well he ought to be, but the tent is blessedly warm, enveloping her like the quilt she’d left behind in Leaf End. A few minutes’ reprieve, and then she can drag herself back out to deal with the mess she’s made.
Of course, that’s when her head bangs sharply against a tent pole. Pain shoots through her scalp—she bites back a curse, eyes watering from the impact.
Leon stirs in the dark. “Who’s there?”
Damn it. She conjures a quick magelight, sending a soft golden glow through the tent. Leon blinks at the sudden change, one hand grasping weakly for his sword.
“You know,” she says conversationally, “if I really were a Salantir agent, we’d all be done for. I’d just have to wait for your afternoon nap and bam—” She snaps her fingers. ”—the Sun Prince, out like a light.”
This is incredibly written, and the absolute range of emotions you’ve managed to squeezed into a single scene is beyond impressive. There’s a lot of humor in this piece (I think I laughed out loud when Asteria revealed the truth behind her tent-hole, lmao), but it’s also a very contemplative and serious in places. The character work on Asteria is incredibly done--I have such a strong handle of who she is as a person just based off this fic alone.
But perhaps the most impressively written and heartbreaking thing of all is the promise she managed to unwittingly extract from the prince: that he will not only heed Ante’s counsel, when the time comes, and not let himself be ruled by her suspicions. We all know how things turned out, but the moment is also beautiful in a fleeting kind of way, and undoubtedly something that Leon’s mind will have wandered back to time and time again.
Beautiful beautiful collage of works! Every single one of them is very emotionally evocative, and I feel very very guilty from what I’ve put the mage through over the course of AMR ;; I love all these pieces dearly, but the third one takes my breath away every time I see it. The juxtaposition of Sister’s first and last scenes will always send chills down my spine.
My mage Xiang Jia. They are 6'0 of issues and their sanity might be fraying as much as their seals but they will absolutely NOT be addressing that thank you very much. Their stats are below the cut!
A Parami archmage of Yotai descent, formerly belonging to Salantir nobility, and now serving as Arcadian black ops? Xiang Jia has really been all over Arvanand, haven’t they? There’s no one better-suited to brokering peace between all of the continent’s splintered nations...or to destroying them all in one fell swoop.
Incredible moodboard! I love the witchy aesthetic going on here, and both of the quotes you’ve chosen are very evocative and specific to AMR’s plot points. If I had no idea which IF this moodboard was about, I’d be able to guess AMR in a heartbeat!
This is pretty much exactly how I imagined that two-piece clothing option to look like! Inerys herself is beautiful - seeing her sad makes me sad, but I have hope that things will look up for her eventually!
How many side stories like Sunblind are there for AMR? If there are more would you mind linking them? (Because I am totally hopeless at finding them😅)
Off topic but I bought your game on the google playstore and absolutely adored it❤️ and was so shocked that you had so much of the demo version of book 2 up for FREE like what??? How are you this generous???
I apologize - Sunblind is the only fangame that AMR has currently received. 😅
But thank you for your kind words! Much as I'd like to preen and say that it is generosity on my part, I have rather selfish motivations for handling AMR's demos the way I have. That is, AMR's readership is almost universally nasty little angst gremlins like me, and have become an absolute goldmine of ideas for how character interactions ought to be handled in future releases. Real footage of me opening my tumblr inbox:
I hope you'll continue to enjoy what Book 2 has in store!
Hi Adam, I’m not sure if it’s just me but wondering why I can’t rate the game in the hosted games app? It also shows 0 ratings so far which doesn’t makes sense..
I think CoG ran into an error when publishing AMR on the Hosted Games app, which disabled star ratings for people who finished the game. This is incredibly unfortunate, as the most amount of purchases (and therefore, likely ratings as well) come in over the first week of release, during which the rating system for AMR had largely been out of commission. As the Hosted Games app only shows ratings and the number of ratings as metrics for a game's success (there are no data displayed on purchases made or average playtime, for example), AMR is in the unfortunate situation of seeming less popular/liked than it actually is.
What's done is done, though, and there's nothing I can really do about the situation. However, if you find yourself replaying AMR through the Hosted Games app in the future, I would really appreciate it if you could drop a rating for the game - it really does help!
Will we get to see our old phantasmas again? My mc and airas are besties now I think curious if we get to officially say goodbye to them
Lmao, I hope Airas reciprocates your MC's affection! You will see them again very soon, but unfortunately not in the context you expect. Far into the future though (and by that I mean well into Book 3), the Book 1 phantasmas may just make rather important resurgences!
I assume we'll see the aftermath of the war on Salantira's side right? Cause that's a mess I'd like to explore.
You get the barest of glimpses into this in the Archangel fork of Chapter 9 (Jiasei)'s opening scene, but a larger look-through isn't currently planned until well into Book 3! Book 2 is essentially a glorified tour of Arvanand, and we've already touched on Thulrum, Yotai (Kyuhan/Jiasei), as well as Salantira (Reglaire/Aulain), which means there's only one stone currently left unturned...
Rating: Teen and Up; Word count: 1281; Read on AO3
Tags: Spoilers for the AMR demo; Not canon compliant; First Kiss; Developing Relationship
A Mage Reborn demo 👑✨ @mage-parivir
[Masterlist]
The flaps of his tent flutter open when Leon barges in with an apology on his lips.
“Forgive me Leri, but this cannot wait. I-”
The words seem to leave him and Leri’s watching him freeze in place.
Leon’s eyes rake at Leri’s back, quickly, with a hint of hunger of the one who sees something they know they shouldn’t but really wanted to.
Leri doesn’t move, elbows caught in a shirt he was in the middle of pulling on.
Leon has a very good view of markings covering his skin.
This is why he usually bathes alone. To avoid questions he just knows are at the ready to spill from Leon’s mouth. During his adventures with the White Fangs he was able to keep them covered most of the time. Oh, his companions chanced glimpses of them on his arms and legs but not like this, not in full. It’s the first for Leon.
And he stays silent.
Suspiciously silent.
Leri swallows, throat suddenly tight. He can’t properly read the look in Leon’s eyes, that inappropriate hunger changing into something he’s not sure he likes seeing. It looks close to pity and he hates to see that.
I always loveee reading Leri fics because Icy always does such a good job filling in the blanks in the canon. Probably one of AMR’s most controversial game design decisions was to relegate the war arc into a thousand-word passage; and while I stand by that call, I understand the frustration some feel at not being able to see the characters develop throughout those rough couple of years of their life. I share that feeling quite often as well, and Leri fics never not manage to scratch that torturous itch!
This fic in particular does a wonderful job in showing the mutual respect between Leon and Leri, and the motions of the war that they have to go through. I imagine such experiences can only help their bond with one another grow stronger, and it really makes you ponder how that would have informed...future events.
Fic for “A Mage Reborn” by @mage-parivir. Featuring @atypicalacademic’s mage Esther Selencal, whom I love.
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“…The Black Grail often works with the Archangel to ensure an equal trade of information. Have you met any of them?”
“Not to my knowledge.”
Esther prided themself in knowing people inside and out. Oftentimes better than the people in question did. However, there had been too many new people—places to map in their head, faces to names and names to faces, knowledge of a culture long thought lost—to do more than go, “Ah, yes, we’ve met.”
They’d been wrong, hadn’t they? Knowing people. Esther had known the king. Trusted him. Thought he trusted them.
chains at their wrists cutting the flow of magic binding binding
Not again. Never again.
Tahlia approached an open door and nearly collided with a stack of books.
Oh, this was such an absolute treat to read. I appreciate the sonic shift from AMR’s usual gloom-and-doom fare, and doubly appreciate the (very welcome) addition of a second MC! Their interactions with one another was super cute, and it’s good to see Tahlia properly receive input from other people for once.
I’ll be coming back to this one often - such a gem!
(Also, the idea of a blonde Yurui has me tickled pink. If hair dyeing were more practical/universally practiced in AMR-verse, I do believe Yu would be the type to go through them faster than F goes through swear words!)
“Warmth on your lips, in your lungs, upon the tip of your tongue”
I played A Mage Reborn @mage-parivir AND PLEASE GO AND PLAY TOO. It’s wonderful, it’s exciting and have a lot of juicy juicy angst
Just my MC Rune and Leon being cute and soft
This is really stunning! I love the color choices you made and how warm it makes the entire piece feel, despite the whole thing happening at night. Everything from the golden wheat field to the star earring to the way Leon is looking at her eyes--these choices are INSPIRED. I love seeing mages happy...I want to give them the world...TT
The show must go on, alas, but for the time being I’m happy to peripherally bask in their radiance. Here’s hoping things look up from here!
After completing Book 1 of @mage-parivir A Mage Reborn I've decided to repost my concept art of my Spiritism Mage, Nimat Talovaire, with her stats from book 1.
Book 2 should be interesting especially considering Nimat still has lingering affections towards White Fang, particularly the new Saintess Ilya, as well as being reunited with her childhood friend, and first love Elias. Considering Nimat is attracted to both healers I'm head canoning she probably has a bit of Nightingale syndrome/ transference going on 🤔
In particular, I love that royal retainer drip, it really looks like she reeks of money! I bet that was useful for her as a ‘commonborn’ attendant in the noble’s den. Her Widow outfit is really cool as well--the veil is my personal favorite mask choice as well, as it adds such an allure and mystery to the character in question, and Nimat pulls it off splendidly here.
There’s something romantic about a spiritist that keeps falling for healers, ahah. No other pairing would put the ‘opposites attract’ theory to the test quite like them!
