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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Just finished The Well of Ascension *spoilers, obviously heh*
« on: January 01, 2008, 10:18:19 AM »
It was just curious, as we know by the end of the 1st book that: Atium stores youth, the Lord Ruler needs to burn his feruchemical metals to gain his powers, one of his powers is (kinda) eternal youth, he's needing to use more and more to get the same effect.  All of this is known to the characters and would explain a lack of atium reserves.  In spite of this, no one in the books seems to mention it, which made me think it was the 'secret' reason that no one could find the stash.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Just finished The Well of Ascension *spoilers, obviously heh*
« on: December 31, 2007, 11:46:32 PM »
The end of Well of Ascension annoyed me, but it took me a little while to figure out why.  I loved the book, but I particularly loved how the entire system of magic was well constrained and defined.  Introducing the 'being' in the well, and its powers (to edit the Terrisman theology at will and such) are all completely outside of that.  I am hopeful that book three will help flesh this out, but it felt unsatisfying to bring in something so far outside the magic system into a universe that worked so well as it is.

On an unrelated point, did I miss the explanation of where all the atium went? It seems fairly obvious (the Lord Ruler was burning it to stay young, as Atium is the Feruchemical element that stores age (well, youth) ), but I never remember it explained in the book.

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