When your master is murdered, you must uncover the magical secrets of Renaissance Italy, before your rival apprentices expose them first!

## About This Game
When your master is murdered, you must uncover the magical secrets of
Renaissance Italy, before your rival apprentices expose them first!

The Magician ‘s Workshop is a 190,000-word interactive historical fantasy
novel by Kate Heartfield, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely
text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast,
unstoppable power of your imagination.

In 1512, Florence is known for ruthless politics, art, and magic. Now that the
infamous Medici banking family is back in power, the city is full of dangerous
secrets. What would the treacherous Machiavelli do in a situation like this?
Just ask him in person!

When your master’s body washes up in the Arno river, you must take over his
Maria Novella workshop–the designs, the paintings, the marvelous machines and
inventions, and most importantly, his book of spells, written in various
ciphers and magical invisible inks. You have inherited a roster of dangerous
clients who are losing patience, and two rival apprentices who could prove
allies or even lovers, if they don’t turn on you to wrest the workshop from
your hands.

Can you use your skills in the arts or sciences to gain allies and buy time?
Are you quick enough with a blade to keep yourself safe in the streets? Are
you clever enough to decode the master’s instructions to build a terrible new
machine, and are you ruthless enough to sell it to the highest bidder? Or will
you work together with your fellow apprentices to build the machine in secret
and use it to bring stability to the city, and to all of Italy?

• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, bi, asexual, or poly.
• Use alchemy, animation and soothsaying to create magical entertainments, win
street fights and impress your clients
• Design and build a flying machine, an unbreakable vault, a wall-breaking
weapon, an enchanted pen and ink for a philosopher, or a refillable gold purse
for bribes
• Uncover the secrets of Florence and rise to power in your own workshop,
leading your own team of magicians and artists
• Meet famous historical figures such as Niccolo Machiavelli and the future
Pope Leo X
• Paint a fresco in the public square, escape your enemies in a boat chase on
the Arno River, or just play cards and talk politics in the taverns of
Florence

The master made dark sacrifices to learn what he knew. Are you prepared to do
the same?

The Magician’s Workshop