"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Is the Dor the only confirmed supernatural power in the world?
What power made the monks in to 'demons'?
Occam's razor would suggest that the Dor is the logical place to start. All of the known supernatural enhancements (Dahkor monks, Elantrians, Shuden's exercise) cause the one wielding the power to glow, the Elantrian's permanently, the monks and Shuden when they are using their power. This seems to be a property of the Dor, especially from Raoden's experience. How the monks change themselves to be able to access it is a fair question, but it seems to me, at least, that the Dor somehow being receptive to the chants being used is as good an explanation as any. It could just naturally be one way how humans in Opelon access power.
I thought that the Dor might cause the Dahkor monks and Clayshin, but then I realized that the Opelon magic is like the Scadrial magic.
You have Allomancy and Aons, that both get energy out of nowhere, you have Clayshin and Ferchemancy which draw energy from the user, and Hemalurgy and the Dahkor monks draw their energy out of someone else.
Allomancy comes from Leras/Preservation
Aons come from Dor/Domi?/Pool God?
Ferchemy is natural
ClayShin is natural?
Hemalurgy comes from Ati/Ruin
"Bone bending" comes from Jaddeth?
I think that the shining thing on Opelon is like how all the magic on Scadrial involved Metal.
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So what will happen to this discussion if Hoid (or someone by that name) appears in AMoL?
the catch is that you need to come in physical contact(skin to skin) for them to work.
Oh, now that's interesting....I wonder why it's like that for those two and none of the others.
Personally i am under the impression that Hoid is a title carried by a group of people and not one specific person because in my questioning of brandon at the signing i went to, i asked about Hoid and we discussed all the different books he's in. And then i said, "Yeah, but then he dies at the beginning of Liar of Partinel." To which Brandon replied, "Well, at least someone they called Hoid died..." I took that to mean that more than one person are called Hoid.
That Disney movie?
