Long story short, I'm going to be setting up a patreon and committing to spending vastly more time per week writing.
The good news, more consistent Wandsmith releases.
The second good news, I'll be working on a new fiction in addition to the wandsmith and you get to decide which one. There's poll and be sure to sound off in the comments. I hope to start dropping chapters for the winner by the end of March.
Concept 1
Title:
Glass Cannon Shield Mage
Themes/Tags:
System Apocolypse, Magic, Solo levelling, Dungeon Diving, Litrpg, Harem(?), Magic
Blurb:
Most men endured. They waited and watched, hoping the world would crash against them like waves against a rocky shore.
He did not.
Before the System’s Apocalypse, he had been an Armour Systems Engineer. He had studied impact dynamics, force distribution, and material science. He had known how to make things tough, how to help people survive. But when the System came, it didn’t care about equations. It tore down cities, rewrote history, and shattered the laws of men. It left only dungeons, monsters, and the cold calculus of survival.
Others chose swords or spells. They sought power in the familiar, the expected. But he had seen something else—a way to turn the very nature of force against itself.
Defence was never meant to be passive. Shields could be weapons. They could be traps. They could be the key to absolute battlefield control.
His shields were not mere barriers. They were edges, hammers, and cages. They did not shatter; they broke the world around him.
Some called him reckless.
A glass cannon in a volatile world.
But few understood that no bastion was truly impenetrable, that survival was always a matter of adaptation, resourcefulness, and knowing how to bend so you never had to break.
And if the world insisted on breaking, he would survive long enough to forge something tougher from the pieces that remained.
Notes:
What if a special perk could let you overturn common sense allowing you to safely have Con and strength as a dump stat? What if Intel and Wisdom were just as important for survival early and late game in a system apocalypse setting? What if you could have a situationally vulnerable protagonist, with shields that could deflect, absorb, and reflect attacks, reactively explode or be used as compression fields to restrict or crush enemies?
500 chapters, low-ish romance (?) a mature, competent MC driven by a determination to become the best version of himself while defending and empowering the people he cares about.
Concept 2
Title:
Stealing Heavens Fury
Themes/Tags:
Xianxia, Harem (3)
Blurb:
The day Tian learned he could never be a Qi cultivator, powerful raiders descended upon his home, slaughtering his family and reducing his village to echos and ash. Hunted, his only friend, a sprite named Ying, sacrificed her essence in a desperate bid to save him.
Left with nothing but a flickering fragment of Ying’s spirit and facing a bleak, lonely future, Tian discovered one final opportunity to change his fate—to defy a heavens that would have had him offer his neck to those above him.
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He must forge a different path—one that forgoes the karma and rebirth of samsara, a path foriegn to the mortal realm nor bound by Heaven’s will. Turning to the lost and theoretical, heretical art—Refiner of a Thousand Storms—Tian must steal fury from the heavens, harness divine rage, and temper his body, mind, and soul to withstand the upcoming storms, have his vengeance, and rise up from under the oppression of the strong and merciless.
With each strike of lightning, he must cultivate not Qi, but a Heretical Mana Core, becoming something hunted, feared, and profane.
A Magi.
Notes:
You’ve seen cultivators in a mage world, but could the opposite work? Heavily inspired by Martial World and Nine Star Hegemon, and especially Ave Xia Rem Y, I’ve been keen on writing a typical xiania, but just a little bit darker, a little more visceral and desperate. With a weak to strong, underdog protagonist in an Eastern Xianxia-inspired world, who would essentially skip the body-refining step and learn laws, learning to strike first and always being vicious. A xiania equivalent of Han Solo. Lightning powers again but with more Heretical Mana Cores down the line allowing for more types of power and ultimately becoming physically tough enough to stand toe to toe with anyone.
Long series (1000+ chapters with 4 distinct realms) with a very small harem with long stretches between romance or explicit content.
Concept 3
Title:
The Sword Saint and the Saintesses
Themes/Tags:
Regressor, Harem, Saving the World(s), Nobledark, World Hopping, Harem (6), Progression Fantasy, Isekai
Blurb:
Aaron had seen the end of all things. Not just the crumbling of empires or the fall of worlds, but the slow, grinding collapse of reality itself. He had watched as infernal things clawed up from below and abyssal horrors invaded from the dark beyond. He had seen the ruin of nations, the assassination of kings and champions, the twisted knife of betrayal in the backs of those he loved.
And then, when all was dust and silence, Aaron did what he was always meant to do.
He began again.
For that was the quiet truth of the Time Saint. Far weaker than the other one hundred saints and saintesses summoned during the ‘Calling’ from all corners of the multiverse. His powers did not break mountains or cleave through armies. No, his gift was simpler, crueller, more patient. Because when the end came, he did not die, he returned.
Back to the beginning of his life, his memories intact, To learn, to prepare, to carve new strength from the ordinary things he had once overlooked. A second life spent gathering the skills he would need—not just magic or swordplay, but the quiet arts of understanding, communication, and seeing the world with sharper eyes.
And this time, he knew where to begin.
The Saintesses of Space and Life—the first to fall after the Calling.
Last time, they died screaming and alone.
This time, as the Sword Saint, he would trade patience for swiftness, betrayal and ruin for a fury delivered by the edge of his blade.
As the Sword Saint, Aaron will save a reality on the brink and carve out a future denied him for far too long.
Notes:
High stakes, fast-paced, shorter series. Somewhat inspired by Mike Truk’s Five Trials and Heretic Spellblade by K.D. Robertson, with a team that grows in size and bonds over time. An MC who learns to be less cold and standoffish after a lifetime watching a universe and all its people die. Rank and abiliy Progression from Saint to True Saint, High Saint, etc, likely litrpg-lite. Also likely to be the most spicey option with fantasy race LI's. 300 chapters.
Concept 4
Title:
Azure Hydra and the Black Phoenix
Themes/Tags:
HYDRA, Magic Academy, Antihero, hiding strength, class divide, Progression Fantasy, Magic, non-human protagonist, Harem (7)
Blurb:
They whispered that he was strange. That there was something in his blood.
They weren’t wrong.
His parents were slain before he could remember them, hunted for reasons he never understood. Growing up an orphan, he heard whispers no one else could hear, saw things within shadows no one else could see. He was odd, an outcast. But still, he dreamed of belonging somewhere.
The Academy was meant to be that place. A new start. A final chance.
Instead, it became something far greater.
Because the voices in his mind were not madness. They were echoes of something ancient, something powerful. He was Hydra-blooded. And not just any Hydra—an Azure Hydra, a wielder of soul magic, a being meant to think and see with seven minds as one.
A monster even dragons feared. A fear that would see him hunted if the wrong people knew. So he hid his nature—for now. He studied in secret, grew in strength, and searched for those who might teach him what the Academy could not.
And in doing so, he found her.
The Dark Phoenix. A name spoken in hushed tones, a force of shadow and fire. Another outcast. Hunted by dragons for reasons far different than his own—reasons she had no interest in fulfilling, but little power to defy.
For now.
Because fate had a way of binding fire and shadow, soul and storm and if the world feared what they might become apart, it had no idea what they could be together.
Notes:
I’m normally a ‘humanity, fuck yeah’ type of writer where if a protagonist was given an easy route or hard route to power, but the easy route demanded relinquishing their humanity to do so, I would always want to explore the hard way. But this protagonist would be the opposite, embracing his inner monster, a motherfucking Hydra with spectral heads and multiple minds and other bestial transformations. In addition, for each of his seven heads, he could learn a new type of magic, starting with souls, smoke and then wind. Consider this series to be the most edge lord option out of them all. I'm a big fan of Accademy's Weakest is a Demon Limited Hunter, which this may be somewhat tangentially inflenced by. Beastkin/Shifter LI's. 400 chapters.
Which fiction would you most like to read next?
