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Eric James Stone / Unforgettable Question
« on: April 07, 2011, 07:21:46 PM »
Eric, depending on how Unforgettable goes, do you plan to go the Inde rout for your novels?
"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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I don't know who this Jon Snow guy is, but he sounds like a pansy. All he has is some dog and a sword. That and he probably is a jerk!
And how about a combination of an atium misting and a steel feruchemist (physical speed)?
Bejay: Go back and re-read Richard's brother's "fire is bad" speech at the very start of the first book. Keep in mind that in pre-electrical societies, (especially ones with no magic,) the controlled use of fire is synonymous with civilization itself. But people were listening and agreeing instead of denouncing him a an obvious nutcase.
There were a few entertaining bits in the first few books, but on the whole the series is rotten through and through, from the beginning to the end.
Wow, that cover doesn't just yell steampunk, it grabs you by the collar of your shirt and shouts "STEAMPUNK!" so loudly you can feel the drops of spittle hit your face
Definitely not saying I don't like it though
QuoteOne such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.
This should have basically the same affect as having both Steel and Iron (until the user runs out of metals or stored up weight). Neat idea of how to get around the limitations of only Mistings and the Feruchemy equivalent of Mistings existing.
No, this is much, much better. Pushing and Pulling at the same time had strong limits, because your body could only take so much.
Being able to be heavier or lighter (given time) could be nearly limitless depending on how much weight is stored.
One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will.
Is that a good almost-fall-out-of-chair or a bad one?
I'm a little bit worried when I hear that, simply because of Legend of the Seeker. The only good thing that can be said about that show was that it was not as bad as the books, if for no other reason than that it stretches the bounds of possibility to take The Sword of Truth and make it any worse! But if someone was to make a TV adaptation of stories that are actually worth reading, such as The Stormlight Archive, I'd hope that it was done by a better team than that.
I think The Way of Kings would make an awesome movie, except for one thing. It's way too long to fit into a movie properly and the quality would suffer from that much as the Harry Potter stories have, especially the later ones.
Long Live Barbarians! Go Logen!
Psh. Logen has no proper weapons to fight Vin, especially not if she has atium.
One thing to point out... the middle age era that most fantasy takes place in was a much bleaker world. Even in dark fantasy the authors rarely make it as dark as life really was. Virtually no one bathed. The infant mortality rate was over 50%. The fairy tale Hanzel and Gredel is based on actual truth. When the famines hit in the 1300s, people abandoned some of their children since they could not feed them all.
The leaders of Europe were basically a military aristocracy. The kinds were military dictators. The vast majority of these nobles could not read. People were hacked to pieces in wars. The average lifespan was probably in the 30s. Peasants rarely left the villages they were born in. Serfs were basically slaves that you did not have to feed yourself.
It was common for children to go to sleep hungry at night.
There was very little technological innovation. so the only way to get wealth was by oppressing others. The catholic church was corrupt. (this is not church bashing, this is what lead to the reformation).