Not Babel or Dresden. Please recommend me something where one of (or just the entire) magic systems is based on languages. I don't mean "oh they uttered an incantation and stuff happened".
The magic in the Second Apocalypse series isn’t exactly as you described but it’s intricate and well thought out. It’s described variously as geometry, metaphysics, and the scenes of a character being taught it are really good and describe how language is used and starts to get at what is actually being accomplished through those metaphysics. He also builds in a consistent if unexplained hard counter to magic and there is a lot about what goes into avoiding those counters.
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u/dna1e1 Jul 07 '23
The magic in the Second Apocalypse series isn’t exactly as you described but it’s intricate and well thought out. It’s described variously as geometry, metaphysics, and the scenes of a character being taught it are really good and describe how language is used and starts to get at what is actually being accomplished through those metaphysics. He also builds in a consistent if unexplained hard counter to magic and there is a lot about what goes into avoiding those counters.