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Brandon Sanderson / Awakening speculation (Spoilers)
« on: June 17, 2009, 09:26:07 PM »
I just finished reading Warbreaker for the second time, and Awakening has really captured my imagination. Are steel and stone the only inorganic materials that can be Awakened? What about glass? Or plastic? Or iron? Could you Awaken a cloth made in our modern times that is a mix of cotton and polyester? Could you encase a dinosaur skeleton in stone and awaken that?
Are swords the only steel thing that would become sentient? What about a lance, or a steel cube? I wonder what other Commands could have been given to Nightblood. Protect me?
Vasher had those two pairs of shirts and pants fight along side him. I wonder if Awakened pants or shoes could be taught to dance.

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Brandon Sanderson / Harry Potter unforgivable curses
« on: February 16, 2009, 05:39:47 AM »
The other day I was thinking about my favorite book, Harry Potter, and I thought of something. The three Unforgivable Curses which land a person in Azkaban for life are murder, torture, and the Imperius curse (stealing someone's free will maybe?). And then I realized the forbidden magic in the Wheel of Time is basically the same. Aes Sedai can't use the Power to kill, or use the Power as a weapon, which rules out torture, and Compulsion (maybe analogous to slavery?) is forbidden too, although not by the Oath Rod. I thought it was interesting that the same things were outlawed in two different books.

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