Its use of magic and its love of storytelling are plain to see. The First Binding is fundamentally and obviously invested in fantasy as a genre-fantasy’s beauty, its opening of possibility, its gifts of power and empowerment. He begins as a backstage worker at a theater, then becomes a gang member, then the head of the gang, and then a student at a magical academy. He’s an orphan and a member of the lowest social rung in the Mutri Empire, and he dreams of learning to work magic. Ari’s childhood is full of danger and adventure. Eloine is beautiful, mysterious, and seductive, and is more than willing to listen to Ari tell the story of his past. In one thread, Ari arrives in a tavern midway through a long journey, where he meets a woman named Eloine. Both of them are about Ari-a magician, a storyteller (in fact, The Storyteller, capitalized), and a larger-than-life figure of legend. The First Binding consists of two interwoven narratives.
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