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Brandon Sanderson / Soulcasting and AonDor too powerful!
« on: January 16, 2011, 05:12:33 PM »
Brandon Sanderson has always put limits on his magic systems. There is no unlimited magic source. The most limited magic source is hemalurgy and allomancy: they are completely based on four levels (normal, flare, duraluminum, and I assume you get a bigger boost if you flare duraluminum) of 16 powers. You can't do anything else. Feruchemy is similarly limited, although there are no levels. BioChroma is based on a 1-1 power basis: you take one Breath, you have one more Breath. Surgebinding gives you three abilities, and it is also on a 1-1 power basis, although power levels are harder to judge.
Unfortunately, AonDor is about as limited as magic in the Harry Potter universe (meaning: you have to know what your doing do do anything, but you can still do just about anything). Soulcasting seems to be going the same way. We can excuse AonDor for being his first book, but he should have learned a few things from his other books. When will he add limits to soulcasting?

EDIT: I have changed my opinion of Soulcasting. However, I have stopped excusing AonDor as well.

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Well, how does everything fit together? Well, each magic system draws energy from something. Maybe that something is Dor! Maybe the Dor is in different forms (Stormlight, metal, color, mystical energy, for WoK, Mistborn, Warbreaker, and Elantris, respectively), and it powers everything! To take this a bit farther, what if the Shards of Adonalsium are the Dor's pure form?

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Brandon Sanderson / Ruin-like Odium? *spoilers*
« on: September 11, 2010, 07:47:11 PM »
What if the visions are just caused by Odium the same way Ruin did so many things to get what he wanted? Then the visions are wrong and Szeth's hidden master (the one at the end of the book who is getting quotes) is, in a way, right.

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