History Literature / MagickaTheNinthElement

** Professor Yix insists on calling her students [[Franchise/XMen The Yix-Men,]] and is trying to operate some sort of multiverse observation machine.

''Magicka: The Ninth Element - A Tale of Wizards'' is a story by Dan [=McGirt=] preceding the events of VideoGame/{{Magicka}} game. The story, told in-universe by game's character Vlad, follows four young WizardingSchool students, Grimnir, Fafnir, Tuonetar and Davlo, as they end up on an adventure. [[ReferenceOverdosed A storm of references follows,]] in harmony with style of story-telling established by the game.

''Magicka: The Ninth Element - A Tale of Wizards'' is a story by Dan [=McGirt=] preceding the events of [[{{VideoGame/Magicka}} Magicka]] game. The story, told in-universe by game's character Vlad, follows four young WizardSchool students, Grimnir, Fafnir, Tuonetar and Davlo, as they end up on an adventure. [[ReferenceOverdosed A storm of references follows,]] in harmony with style of story-telling established by the game.

** Professor Yix insists on calling her students [[XMen The Yix-Men,]] and is trying to operate some sort of multiverse observation machine.
** The villain makes use of a [[StarWars voice modulator]].
** Fandulf is an obvious reference to [[TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]].

''Magicka: The Ninth Element - A Tale of Wizards'' is a story by Dan McGirt preceding the events of [[{{VideoGame/Magicka}} Magicka]] game. The story, told in-universe by game's character Vlad, follows four young WizardSchool students, Grimnir, Fafnir, Tuonetar and Davlo, as they end up on an adventure. [[ReferenceOverdosed A storm of references follows,]] in harmony with style of story-telling established by the game.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Fandulf the Almost Wise is actually pretty wise. During his presence in the story, he makes only two minor mistakes: he's initially disbelieving of Grimnir's theory of Joad trying to tie the villain to the Ninth Element, and he [[spoiler: destroys the Aldrheim's founding columns while stopping the Maelstrom]].

* ShoutOut: Loads of it, and similarly to the original, while some are dropped randomly, others are not.
* Unperson: When villain introduces themselves to the wizards, they're shocked to notice they don't know their name. [[spoiler: Azimuth used to be the boss at Aldrheim, but her name was literally scrubbed away from Order's history.]]

* ButtMonkey: Fafnir turns out to be this in his early days, despite wearing a green robe. This is in contrast to game putting virtually all death scenarios on yellow wearing wizard. [[spoiler: Tuonetar is, however, the part of the pack which ends up suffering a near death experience.]]

* MostDefinitelyNotAVillain: Vlad's shtick of doing suspiciously vampire things is back. Inverted when at one point Yix is absolutely sure Davlo is a ghost, and he disagrees. [[spoiler: Which is hilarious given that Davlo ''is'' Vlad, and at least at that point he is most definitely not a ghost.]]

* TheUnreveal: Readers may be led to believe that this book will feature backstory of status of multiple characters, most importantly Magicka's status of Grimnir. What we end up learning is [[spoiler: Grimnir's initial motivation.]] The exact nature of [[spoiler: Grimnir's later exploits which got him imprisoned at World's End, Fafnir somehow becoming a dragon, and many other things are left untouched.]]

* DangerousDeviceDisposalDebacle: [[spoiler: The Forbidden Chamber houses loads of magical implements, protecting them from wizards using them without proper testing just for fun. In the end, everything but the stolen artifact ends up being removed with a Vortex magick, eliminating this particular problem.]]

''Magicka: The Ninth Element - A Tale of Wizards'' is a story preceding the events of [[{{VideoGame/Magicka}} Magicka]] game. The story, told in-universe by game's character Vlad, follows four young WizardSchool students, Grimnir, Fafnir, Tuonetar and Davlo, as they end up on an adventure. [[ReferenceOverdosed A storm of references follows,]] in harmony with style of story-telling established by the game.