Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World

Sion dies at thirty and resolves that talent should not gatekeep survival. Reborn where spells feel like superstition, he treats magic as engineering: define terms, design experiments, write failures in the margin, teach anyone willing to try. Early lessons build measuring tools, notation, and safety rules that keep villages from blowing up while learning heat and force. Workshops turn into classrooms; students become colleagues who challenge assumptions without deference. Nobles see threat, guilds see bureaucracy, and clergy see heresy, but farmers see clean water and mothers see less fear. Sion refuses to be a hero or a prophet; he wants a curriculum cheap enough for a child to learn. As the project scales, administration becomes its own monster supply chains for chalk, standards for apprenticeships, arguments about publishing dangerous results. The story keeps coming back to a single promise: if knowledge is shared, fewer people will need saving.