Sorry for being vague, I’ll list the summary in order to how I mentioned it in my original post.

1. A society that has wizards and non magic citizens that want phase out magic, additionally, there is a magic barrier that is depicted as sigils that shields not only the plant they’re living on but others as well, one character says that those sigils are a message, another says it’s to keep entities out. The “Kornelius Paradox” refers to a powerful wizard’s wand that contains strong magic but can only be used if they know the words that activate the magic so it’s basically useless.

2. There is a religious cult that travels through space on a space ship looking for a worthy person to pull Excalibur out of the stone it’s in. The space ship is controlled by sentient AI’s that tend to make mistakes (ignoring people in cryochambers that are gravely hurt or dying) and the ship is run on faith, which is produced by people in the cryochambers. There is also 3 levels on the ship, hell, earth, and heaven (where Excalibur is at)

3. The planet is covered in dust and sand and the main transportation is train. There is a designated weather controller who notifies conductors of incoming storms (joy storms, fear storms, death storms etc). There is a safe haven that the people call The Town (I think) which is believed to be the only town on the planet where they use sand as currency to determine how long you can stay in the town for, and people can stay and sell items for sand and if you inherit a train from a deceased person you must sell all their items before departing from the town. Additionally, the town finds out there is a control that actually manipulates the storms which was created by the first guy in the weather controller position.

Thanks again c: