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- Shaper - Can pull ambient mana from the air and create constructs with it, mostly mundane spells in this first book.
- Summoner - Able to make deals with different monsters in the tower, gaining an aspect of them that is completely independent from the original and thralled to that summoner's will. This gives them access directly to a summon AND that monster's spells.

[The Characters]

After his brother's disappearance 5 years prior, a young Corin Cadence has decided to investigate his brother's disappearance personally. After the divorce of his parents and his mother's abandonment, Corin has been taken out of school and forced into an intense training regiment for the last 3 years by his father. All with the goal of earning him a worthwhile attunement and making him a proper successor to the House Cadence. Though the training is a boon in his search for his brother, it causes Corin to shed his friendships with others and become a social recluse. In the pursuit of power, he shed all of his friendships and familial connections.

This has led him to be... awkward, yet well prepared and mentally astute. Struggling through social standards with those on his level, he near effortlessly matches the adults in this world while struggling with those his age. More desperate to find his brother and repair his family than meet the expectations of his father, Corin wishes for ANY attunement that would allow him to climb the tower. Even if the worst attunements would see him cast off by his father. He would do ANYTHING to bring his brother back.

Besides Corin, we are introduced to his half-sister Sera along with two other childhood friends: Roland and Patrick. Originally raised to be his retainer, Sera was more of a loyal bodyguard and personal confidante than anything else. In fact, Corin did not even know of her being his sister until his father sought to replace him with a worthy heir. The two have a tense relationship in front of their father but quickly bond through shared interests in pursuing this new power they possess. Patrick and Roland are also childhood friends, the group of them (alongside Corin's brother) growing together and even forming battle tactics for when they fought each other.

Though losing contact with them during his personal training, he finds that his friends and sister all remember him fondly. Though he's unable to express himself, the comfortability of those he knew previously has him quickly falling into the same routines upon entering the Academy and encountering them again. There are also several other minor characters, with only Jin bearing much mention. A young man with asian features that specializes in firearms, him and Corin are quick to form a friendship. With the two even planning to attend a winter ball together.

[Final Thoughts]

This book takes a lot of direct boners from Mother of Learning but does a lot more with its character writing and by having a concise story, book-by-book.