title: Mage: Such Pain
text: # Mage: Such Pain
  
  Such Pain is a novel by Don Bassingthwaite published by Boxtree Books in 1995.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  Such Pain is a Mage: The Ascension novel in which Aaron Barry must cope with the death of his father and return to his childhood home.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Andy Butcher reviewed Such Pain for Arcane magazine, rating it a 7 out of 10 overall.
  
  ## Reviews
  
  * Review by John C. Bunnell (1995) in Dragon Magazine, #219, July 1995
  * Review by John D. Owen (1996) in Vector 189
  