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From Sanctity to Sorcery: An Author’s Guide to Building Belief Structures and Magic Systems (Author Guides) Paperback – July 10, 2020

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Want to create a magic system for your world, but don’t know where to start?

Need help building religions and belief structures that feel real?

From Sanctity to Sorcery breaks the process down into easy-to-follow steps. By completing a series of creative prompts, this book will guide you from side-show trickster to all-powerful sorcerer.

This workbook will help you to:
  • Create a magic system your readers can truly believe in
  • Build belief structures that feel ancient and organic
  • Use magic and religion to raise the stakes and increase tension
  • Create an immersive experience for your readers with powerful worldbuilding


Work your way through prompts designed to fully integrate beliefs and magic into your worldbuilding. Learn how to create wizardry and wonder to raise your characters up, or to crush them down.

Get From Sanctity to Sorcery today, and become a master of magic and marvel.

Available as both an ebook Guidebook and a paperback Workbook with space for answering each prompt.
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  6. ISBN-13
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08CPCDB76
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (July 10, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 135 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8664136388
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.31 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Angeline Trevena was born and bred in a rural corner of Devon, but now lives among the breweries and canals of central England with her husband, their two sons, and a rather neurotic cat. She is a dystopian urban fantasy and post-apocalyptic author, a podcaster, and events manager.

In 2003 she graduated from Edge Hill University, Lancashire, with a BA Hons Degree in Drama and Writing. During this time she decided that her future lay in writing words rather than performing them.

Some years ago she worked at an antique auction house and religiously checked every wardrobe that came in to see if Narnia was in the back of it. She's still not given up looking for it.

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Mr. Lang
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting.
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
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Brooklynn Lawhorn
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read.
Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2021
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Helping me so much. I love it.
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Ratha
3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021
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While this book is rather informative, it's not a workbook like it claims. I'd have been better off getting the ebook version, because the physical version isn't much use.
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Dennis J. Ulrich
1.0 out of 5 stars Very good for beginner DMs
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023
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Little or no use for veteran DMs, for myself who has been a DM for 40+ years, this book was a total waste of money. I will be giving it to one of my players who wants to learn to DM and world-build.
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Lars
2.0 out of 5 stars No examples and plattitudes
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2022
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Properbly the worst one.
the author provides no practical examples, (like the rest of this series) which is a disapointment.
In a book about religion in worldbuilding, i would expect at leat a smattering about group psychology. I don't expect a massive scientific dissertation, but concepts such as group think and why cults encourage group think would be nice.
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Raichael
1.0 out of 5 stars Not At All What I Was Expecting....Very Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021
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I expected a little more substance from this. I bought all three workbooks, expecting more than a couple of questions and some blank pages to write on; I KNOW these are workbooks, but come on, these are all very basic categories and don't help a writer really delve into the world they're creating. I'll be sending them back, as they're a waste of money for me.
I gave this two stars because this might be helpful to a beginning writer who doesn't
know where to start.
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Alice
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful and awesome
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022
This book includes so many aspects of the worldbuilding involved in making religious and magical institutions and systems that I never considered before reading it. It will be so useful for my writing.
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Jeff
1.0 out of 5 stars This is bad.
Reviewed in Canada on August 25, 2022
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Poorly illustrated examples…unless you want examples of how religion has been oppressive and how it orchestrated “genocide” in real world history. Another “liberal” piece like the other book I read (creating history) in the 3 book deal I ordered. Half of this book is literally blank pages for “reader ideas”. I’m not kidding. The tone is so light and fluffy, and the voice of the author wanders around in a nearly aimless stream that sort of applies to the topics. Stale humour. I often forgot this book was supposed to be a fantasy rpg resource book. But maybe I’m just the wrong sort for this. If you are 20 years old, and you see the world full of oppression and racism and sexism and all that - then this will help to reinforce your sociology-approved worldview. But even then, you might still feel buyers remorse when you realized you were looking for an rpg guide. Unless your fantasy realm is needing a woke mob party of “PC”s to clean up non-politically correct language. But seriously, but something else if you are looking for a resource manual to help you generate ideas for your role playing game. I have one more to get through (end of the world) and I want to read it just write another review to warn others (if it’s as bad as these last 2 were).
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Spirited Mama
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Addition to the Series!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2020
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Angeline doesn't disappoint with this instalment of her writing craft series. I love creating fantasy worlds full of magic and this workbook will help to focus my creative efforts and deepen my magic systems in future.
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Carrie
4.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2021
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Great writing advice book
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Benjamin Carpenter
1.0 out of 5 stars Not Worth It
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2022
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Pretty much a waste of paper. It's intended as a workbook, but the prompts are so basic that you would have to be such an absolute beginner to find much guidance in them given that they're so short and underdeveloped.

Sink the money into either a good notebook or some fiction to read for inspiration, because either will be a better use of your efforts.
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Stephen A
1.0 out of 5 stars Just can't recommend
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2021
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The information in these are decent but very light in content, even though this is meant to be a workbook, there are far too many blank pages, between 1/3 to 1/2 are blank & on the pages with text, there are far to many blank spaces, all of the books in this series could have easily being put into a single one of about the same size.
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