The Proofwright

De: A. E. Voss

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Proofwright
In a city where lanterns breathe in triads and every spell must be shown to hold, first-year apprentice Arlen Vell discovers what the masters forgot to teach: the mind is the fastest workshop. Cross-trees, fraction ladders, root-rails—quiet mental math that snaps cast-time in half and tightens ε until Prism Moths settle on the work like honest reviewers.
Arlen isn’t after trophies. He’s after clarity—diagrams anyone can follow, plates a dockworker can reset, arrays a neighborhood can trust. But as festival season nears and the Academy’s trials spill into live civic work—wind-boxes, undercity corridors, the Courtyard Calm Array—small failures ripple wider. A wrong glyph hums sharp, a drift creeps in, and the city learns that elegant magic without legible proofs is just bright noise.
To keep the lights honest, Arlen will have to do the unglamorous, dangerous thing: publish his edge, teach it mid-fight, and lead with a clean null before pride turns power brittle. Friendly rivals become teammates, duels end in double-yield, and the measure of the year isn’t a medal—it’s whether the Harbor Quarter sleeps through the storm.
Precision, camaraderie, and public kindness collide in a debut about making magic useful. The Proofwright launches a new progression fantasy where spells are solved, shared, and stood behind—because in this city, the work only counts if your neighbors can follow it.