I appreciate the logical approach to writing about magic and how it works and is theorized in a fantasy world but the main character is just too much of a little whiny shithead. he’s like a bad visual novel protagonist whose entire personality is being mildly irritated by everything. the whole story is from his perspective, so it’s a constant inner monologue of him being bored or annoyed by totally mundane things like basic social interactions or the weather. if I read two thousand plus pages of this I would turn into a school shooter shooter (someone who gathers a lot of incels in one place and shoots them with a gun I got at Wal-Mart) out of self-defense.