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"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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Brandon Sanderson / szeth and the shin
« on: September 14, 2010, 08:28:56 PM »
I think the shin were the original people of roshar, and were left unchanged by cultivation, and they seem to have developed a culture that is the opposite of what the alethi have, perhaps so they would not care if people try and see the future, but maybe they have problems with the past and szeth was a historian of some kind so he guessed that the voidbringers were never defeated, and so the shin made him into a killer, someone who would be like the lowest of the low as a punishment, which would explain why szeth said his punishment demanded the voidbringers werent real, but his honor demanded that they were
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