I’m thrilled to welcome Charles E. Yallowitz for a guest post about magic systems.  Charles recently released Warlord of the Forgotten Age, the last entry in his fifteen book Legends of Windemere series.  Fifteen books – what an accomplishment!

Thank you to Teri for offering to host a guest post and helping to promote Legends of Windemere: Warlord of the Forgotten Age.  This is the final book of my fantasy adventure series, which has spanned 15 volumes.  One of the most key factors for the series has been the magic system.  Spells have flown, rituals have been done by both sides, ancient traps have been sprung, and enchanted items have been wielded throughout it all.  This is to be expected since I made Windemere a high magic world and it all started with a simple system that eventually grew into something larger.

The original idea begun with the…