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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Timespan for Stormlight Archives? (Spoilers)
« on: December 17, 2010, 12:33:23 AM »
Harakeke, you are awesome. You win an award for compilation and translation.
"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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How is that a stretch? There's a lot of room for Shardblades to not be what we think they are. Especially with Syl's only documented encounter with a Shardblade going the way it did. I'm just proposing an idea that, to me, fits the information we have.
I wasn't disputing your theory so much as the statement that Szeth thinks his Blade is cursed. From where I'm sitting, that just isn't true.
He left the King's shardblade; he had no use for it. The Blade Szeth already carried was curse enough.
Secondly, I reckon that Szeths surgebinding comes from a type of fabriel created by the stone shamans. The spren is imprissoned in the oathstone and that is why Szeth is very connected to this stone.