WHOLESALE PANTOPHOBIA

Sam's pantophobia and dyslexia prevent him from living out in the open. He only lives in his books, when he is not painting his recurring dreams, locked up in his room. Her strange nightmares, featuring a menacing Nordian in a tavern or a fabulous traveling mage, are probably accentuated by her illness and her repetitive readings — so she is told. Although the Riscods did not like to leave their son in the grip of his heightened passion, one day the father agreed to send Sam's manuscript to Sylvestris Merlinus, a renowned boarding school where it is customary to train apprentice magicians through the worship of the god Sha-ak. What a surprise when they receive the response from the Academy. Even if his manuscript does not seem to have been accepted, “Sam's ambition to write the most read magic book in the world, requires at least that he come and study there.”