You are a peasant labourer in a small fantasy village, clever and hardworking but marked by your family’s reputation for witchcraft. Your healer mother was accused of dark magic before her death, and your aunt encouraged the same rumours to protect herself, frighten fools, and build a profitable little magic shop in the woods.

Now your aunt is dead. The local lord, who publicly dismissed her as superstition but privately relied on her power, wants her secrets for himself. Afraid she left traps behind, he has ordered you to clear out her cottage and hand over everything magical inside. In return, you may keep the cottage.

But your aunt left more than fake charms and occult nonsense. Hidden among the rubbish are three real inheritances: a sardonic black cat familiar only you can understand, a hat of perfect disguise and stolen thoughts, and a magic paintbrush capable of painting futures, portals, altered bodies, changed minds, and rewritten reality.

You begin as an unwanted outcast dragged before the lord. What you become next is up to you.

Magical Inheritance