History Literature / Neogicia

[[caption-width-right:350:[-The OriginStory of one of the Empire's heroes-] ]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler[=/=]SpoiledByTheFormat: The procedure that makes people into neomancers also has a decent chance of being fatal in the very short term. Even for those that didn't get to see Saly's EarlyBirdCameo in the third ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' novel, it's quite obvious that the story would have been much shorter is she weren't going to survive.

* BrainsAndBrawn: Saly wants to become a doctor [[spoiler:at first]], Loreley a solider.

The work focuses on the Empire, the technology side of TheMagicVersusTechnologyWar and the faction in which the ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' protagonists are playing. One of the faction's trademarks is neomancers ("néogiciens" in the original French version), people who underwent BioAugmentation that enhances greatly their physical and mental capabilities at the price of cutting them off from the world's magic system and can transmit the feature to their children. The story is told from the FirstPersonPerspective of Saly Asigar, a young woman who decides to become a neogician. When the procedure has unsual results, Emperor Keynn Lucans get her enrolled into Memoria, the prestigious academy for neogicians that he founded.

'''''Néogicia''''' is a SpinOff of the French ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'' franchise. The parent franchise is centered around a [[FictionalVideoGame fictional]] {{MMORPG}} named ''Horizon'', that has its own [[NonPlayerCharacter Non-Player Characters]] and is set in a world named Olydri. In ''Néogicia'', Olydri is the real world and its inhabitants living and breathing people.

** The fact that Saly will become one of the high-ranking neomancers is a given (see ForegoneConclusion), but the last chapter of the second novel throws the reader quite a suprise as to how it happened. [[spoiler:Giving Saly the N02 to N04 injections, which are normally given a year apart from each other, becomes necessary to keep her alive after her antagonistic other personality gets kicked out. This makes her technically a rank 2 teknögrade (the second highest non-Lucans neomancer rank out of five) two years earlier than the expectation that had been given the reader so far.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: The second novel seems entirely dedicated to pushing Saly to her physical and psychological limits while getting limited to non-existant resting opportunities. It's little wonder she ends up in a several month long coma at the end.

* TraumaCongaLine: The second novel seems entirely dedicated to pushing Saly to her physical and psychological limits while getting limited to to inexistant resting opportunities. It's little wonder she ends up in a several month long coma at the end.

* HeroicBastard: Discussed. When a teacher that hates Saly outs the fact that Keynn is sponsoring her without actually mentioning the reason. Two of the theories that emerge among the other students is Saly either being Keynn's bastard daughter or pregnant with Keynn's child.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: [[spoiler:The second novel estblishes Tabris needs Saly's body alive to have a suitable host and Saly needs Tabri's mind to avoid constant sensory overload.]]

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler[=/=]SpoiledByTheFormat: The procedure that makes people into neogicians also has a decent chance of being fatal in the very short term. Even for those that didn't get to see Saly's EarlyBirdCameo in the third ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' novel, it's quite obvious that the book would have been much shorter is she weren't going to survive.

* ScienceFantasy: Magic and high-tech both exist in the work's universe, but being focused on the non-magic users makes it a littler closer to ScienceFiction.
* SelflessWish: A variation. When Saly decides that the events from the first novel entitle her to a favor from Keynn (who already got her an Lorely luxury dresses for the end of year ball on his own initiative), she asks him to give Loreley's father an expensive medical treatment for free.

* ShipTease: Between Saly and Keynn.

** The fact that Saly will become one of the high-ranking neomancers is a given (see ForegoneConclusion), but the last chapter of the second novel throws the reader quite a suprise as to how it happened. [[spoiler:Giving Saly the N02 to N04 injections, which are normally given a year apart from each other, becomes necessary to keep her alive after her antagonistic other personality gets kicked out. This makes her technically a rank 2 teknögrade (the second highest non-Lucans neomancer rank) two years earlier than the expectation that had been given the reader so far.]]

* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Played with for Saly. She's a redhead and had green eyes ''before'' becoming a neomancer, which didn't last long in the story proper.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Keynn Lucans, more than 1000 years chronologically, estimated to be in his early thirties by Saly before she found out.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Discussed by Albius Loy after admitting to having a daughter who left home and that he misses very much. He assures Saly that she's not this.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Better screening of applicants is given credit for the injection process failing much less often than it used to. These two things did indeed correlate, but those who observed this are wrong about [[spoiler:which new neomancer selection process has gotten better, as nobody safe for the screener himself is aware that the other screening process even exists]].
* SelflessWhish: A variation. When Saly decides that the events from the first novel entitle her to a favor from Keynn (who already got her an Lorely luxury dresses for the end of year ball on his own initiative), she asks him to give Loreley's father an expensive medical treatment for free.

** It is also one for the whole deal with Tabris, who turns out to have been impacting the setting long before the Centralis battle.

* SeflessWhish: A variation. When Saly decides that the events from the first novel entitle her to a favor from Keynn (who already got her an Lorely luxury dresses for the end of year ball on his own initiative), she asks him to give Loreley's father an expensive medical treatment for free.

* CurtainClothing: As nice as the clothes given by Helkazard are, they are not very warm. After using a curtain to protect herself while breking a window, she has to use it as a cape to protect herself from the cold.

* NoMisterBondIExpectYouToDine: After making Saly prisoner in the second novel, Helkazard give her a nice room, nice clothes and a good meal to to wanting to test so he'll know what to expect from a telekinesis-capable neomancer in relatively good shape. The second he get what he wants, he gives her a head start in escaping his castle as reward, nothing more.

* SexSlave: Apparently a frequent practice of Coalition nobles with captured female neomancers. The nice clothes given by Helkazard combined with her stolen winter gets Saly mistaken for an escaped or "thrown away" one.

* NoMisterBondIexpectYouToDine: After making Saly prisoner in the second novel, Helkazard give her a nice room, nice clothes and a good meal to to wanting to test so he'll know what to expect from a telekinesis-capable neomancer in relatively good shape. The second he get what he wants, he gives her a head start in escaping his castle as reward, nothing more.

** There's a certain prestige at being born a neomancers, but it keeps one from leaving Centralis before the age of twenty-five except during education-related missions. This greatly annoys Loreley.