In our world, there are many wondrous things. Some just go unnoticed, and that's how it should be for some things. Especially concerning the kind known as Magin.
There is no such thing as good and bad magic. Magic is subjective to how the user uses it. What they intend to do with it. One of the most well known magic practices that falls under as being considered bad is book magic.
With book magic, one can create masterpieces that readers can become a part of, or make things appear by just writing sentences with a magic a quill. This can be used for good or for bad. One particular Magin left a bad reputation for this magic.
Black Pen, as he called himself. A Magin who had a passion for writing stories and was well known for his enchanted books that allowed others to play the role of the hero by letting the reader's consciousness slip into the book and see the story with their own eyes. But… then came a day when something went horribly wrong. One particular book he had created had gone out of control. Instead of just letting the reader's conscious slip into the book, the whole reader was taken inside. Many died because of this.
After that, he was stigmatized as a killer writer. He was no longer allowed to publish books for others to read. Black Pen felt his heart die that day. Writing books for others was his passion and now he was forbidden to because of one mistake… he snapped. He decided if people only saw him as a killer writer, then he would live up to that title. He carried on with making more books that would kill their readers. It was to make everyone pay for what they had done to him, he claimed.
A brilliant writer...had become a mad man…
Black Pen went on like this for nearly 10 years before he was finally caught and trapped in a book of his own by the Magic Observers, the Magins' special police force. How they trapped him was different than how Black Pen usually did it with his victims. In order to keep him trapped in the book without worry of him getting out on his own they separated his soul from his body and trapped it in the book. It's unknown what they did with his body, all that was known was he had no way of escaping on his own…
Or at least… that's what they kept telling themselves. They didn't want to think there was any way…
But knowing Black Pen… they knew he would find his way out eventually.