Those choices have consequences that he has to take responsibility for later without brushing them off as fate. In the beginning, his motivation is very internal and selfish and he’s making choices not for the greater good but for Rook.
I’ve played with Chosen Ones tropes before, but for Rook I didn’t want him to have this prophecy of fate. One of your protagonists, Rook, starts out in a way that might suggest the Chosen One trope, but you then lean away from this. I already knew about ley lines from other fantasy media and it was easy to blend that idea with what I was trying to accomplish. We started talking about how our phones can pick up cell signals and computers connect to Wi-Fi, and the worldbuilding started percolating into this idea of magical Wi-Fi. On the way back from Dragon Con in Atlanta, I was on the phone with my brother talking about magic systems and how magic would work in a city. How did you choose to use them in this work? Those who enjoyed the sense of humor in The Other Merlin (BCCB 9/21) will appreciate the hijinks of this novel, with its predominantly queer cast and refreshingly funny take on the genre.The magic system in Spell Bound relies on invisible ley lines. Luken plays with every trope in the prophecy playbook, subverting them at times and playing it straight in the end, and Arek’s inability to pick up on Matt’s very obvious romantic signals results in some sweet (and amusing) pining. This romp of a story is a shade-flinging dating sim comically gone wrong, where each attempt to woo one of the friends just leads Arek back to Matt. Arek harbors a crush for his childhood best friend and the mage of the group, Matt, but when Matt appears disinterested, Arek tries to romance each of his friends in turn: Lila the fae rogue, Rion the overly literal knight, Sionna the fierce warrioress, and Bethany, their flirty magical bard. Unfortunately, the princess they attempted to rescue from the tower is just a skeleton now, and when Arek dons the crown himself, the magic rule of the throne of Ere in the realm of Chickpea kicks in: he has three months, until his eighteenth birthday, to choose a co-ruler with which to soulbond, or else he’ll fade away.
Arek and his pre-assembled gang of misfit D&D archetypes have finished their quest: the Vile One has been beheaded and the prophecy fulfilled, leading to one thousand years of peace.
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