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Dying Town: Quite literally as Conn finds out The magic running Wellmet is a sentient being, and it is old and weak.

Deceased Parents Are the Best: Conn's mom is dead before the series starts, and his dad never appears.

Captured Super-Entity: Wellmet's magic being contained in a machine to weaken it by Underlord Crowe.

Thankfully averted with cousins Embrewing and Conn, as the former admits to preparing to kill Conn before realizing he has no interest in usurping the Underlord position.

Cain and Abel: Black Maggie, Conn's mother, was killed by Underlord Crowe, her brother.

If a city grows too large, however, this can cause the magic to be "stretched thin", which is one of the causes of Wellmet's magic weakening, as it was not able to supply the entire city. Although they not omnipresent, cities are built around these sites, and the magic reshapes itself to supply the cities.

Background Magic Field: All magic draws on power supplied by the Background Magic Field which exists in the form of wellsprings of magic.

Anti-Villain: The rogue magic is attacking Wellmet because it lost its city and people, and is desperately lonely.Abusive Parents: Crowe calculated that Conn would be a better heir than his own son, so he crippled Embrewing to clear the way.Conn seems to know more about it than anyone gives him credit for, but will he be able to convince anyone in time to save the city’s magic? Nevery has been allowed to return to Wellmet in an effort to help stem the leak that seems to be draining the city’s magic. Curiosity convinces Nevery, the owner of the stone Conn tries to steal and recently returned to the city after a decades-long exile, to take Conn in as a servant, though Conn thinks he’s going to be the wizard’s apprentice. Touching a wizard’s locus stone is an almost-certain death sentence, but Conn somehow manages to survive. The Magic Thief follows Connwaer, a young pickpocket in the city of Wellmet, who makes the mistake of stealing a "locus magicalicus", a stone that holds a wizard’s power. The Magic Thief: Home, published Sept.The Magic Thief: Found, published May 2010.The Magic Thief: Lost, published June 2009.It's published in the United States by Harper Collins. ''Quick hands.'' The Magic Thief is a fantasy quartet for children written by Sarah Prineas and featuring illustrations by Antonio Javier Caparo.