/lit/ - Literature

Would you boys read my novel?

>Magus infiltrates a rival Magi House to try and cease the development of their "Grand Opus": the creation of magical golems (basically the in-universe version of magical nukes)
>Ends up inadvertently bringing them to their completion and sparking one of the greatest wars the subcontinent of Feolyn has ever seen
>Written from the perspective of this magus twenty years after the fact as a memoir and chronicle of his version of events
>Covers his early life as a magus, his infiltration and subterfuge in the guise of a magus of House Vabbi, his participation in the War, and his self-imposed exile in the wilderness
>Style is faux-18th/early 19th century somewhat in the vein of Dr. Strange & Mr. Norell
>Unreliable narration in that the magus attempts to convince the reader of his innocence and lack of complicity; the book is essentially an apology, a self-defense

It's a bit difficult to explain the whole thing just because some of it requires knowledge of how the Magi Houses are set up and how magic works, but essentially the story is a commentary on nuclear weapons narrated by a Baroque Robert Oppenheimer who inadvertently sets off a conflict akin to the Thirty Years' War fought with muskets, magic, and sentient (and insane) nukes.

Also, a bit about how magic works in this world: it's a curse, rather than a gift. To be born with magical ability is essentially to be born with cancer or a deathly disease. You are condemned to a short life rather than a long life, and even to be able to live and use magic at all without imploding or going insane requires the use of a device known as a Vital Limiter. Magic is corrosive rather than salutary. Magi are also essentially slaves of the state (as living weapons, scholars, and councilors) and of their respective Magi House, and no magus is allowed to live that exists outside of this structure. There's more but I'm running out of space.

Anyway, would you read?