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