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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn P&P RPG?
« on: May 24, 2008, 11:31:24 AM »
And the highest rank should be really higher and there you gain the wonderful and fabulous plane of being an Inquisitor. 
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"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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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Official Fan Art Thread **Don't create new threads**
« on: May 24, 2008, 01:37:47 AM »
Anubis, please don't react like this. They are only presenting their own interpretation and I don't see that they are against yours in no way. If you cannot take a little comment and you feel attack in your hability, maybe you should revise your judgment. Maybe You are not able to accept their interpretation.
In all cases, without any criticism, here is Brandon's description and that should conclude all interpretation.
So, I guess colors indicate from which Canton your Inquisitor is. Black and red for the Canton of Inquisition... maybe red for the Canton of Finance or blue for the Canton of History.
Smile ! I love you all ! And by the way, Anubis, your intricate design is just perfect for me ! I love it ! Such fluidity and precision ! Remarquable !
In all cases, without any criticism, here is Brandon's description and that should conclude all interpretation.
Quote from: MB2, page 48
Like all Inquisitors, he wore intricate eye tatoos - mostly black, with one stark red line - that marked him as a high-ranking member of the Canton of Inquisition.
So, I guess colors indicate from which Canton your Inquisitor is. Black and red for the Canton of Inquisition... maybe red for the Canton of Finance or blue for the Canton of History.
Smile ! I love you all ! And by the way, Anubis, your intricate design is just perfect for me ! I love it ! Such fluidity and precision ! Remarquable !
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mysterious Reen ?
« on: May 23, 2008, 06:53:33 PM »
I'm upgrading our thread 
In my re-read (very slow, I tell you !), I have noticed a few things regarding Reen.
First, the book talks of Reen's words till Vin puts on her earring and then... it's Reen's voice, sometimes Reen's words, but it continues more and more with Reen's voice only as "a voice in her head".
Second, when Vin wants to flee Carmon's lair she gets her personal possession. Her earring of course, pebbles from each place she passed through with Reen... and Reen's bit of obsidian. Now, Reen is a very practical man so, I don't think he kept that nice little thing just for sentimental value or memories of travels. So I checked in the dictionnary (I confess, I am ignorant of a lot of things lol) to discover that obsidian have a magma origin. Now, isn't it interesting all of a sudden ? I bet it's related somehow to the Ashmounts. I keep on looking for clues but does anyone remember anything about this or have any thoughts we could explore ? I keep on looking for clues.
In my re-read (very slow, I tell you !), I have noticed a few things regarding Reen.
First, the book talks of Reen's words till Vin puts on her earring and then... it's Reen's voice, sometimes Reen's words, but it continues more and more with Reen's voice only as "a voice in her head".
Second, when Vin wants to flee Carmon's lair she gets her personal possession. Her earring of course, pebbles from each place she passed through with Reen... and Reen's bit of obsidian. Now, Reen is a very practical man so, I don't think he kept that nice little thing just for sentimental value or memories of travels. So I checked in the dictionnary (I confess, I am ignorant of a lot of things lol) to discover that obsidian have a magma origin. Now, isn't it interesting all of a sudden ? I bet it's related somehow to the Ashmounts. I keep on looking for clues but does anyone remember anything about this or have any thoughts we could explore ? I keep on looking for clues.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn P&P RPG?
« on: May 22, 2008, 08:11:14 PM »
I disagree... it is not all mistings that become Inquisitors so, it has to be more expensive, for one thing. Second, our beloved friend, TLR himself, said that Inquisitors were very expensive to replace. It should reflect these two points, I think...
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Comprehensive Hemalurgy Thread
« on: May 22, 2008, 06:40:22 PM »
Are you saying that TLR might have used Ruin (by taking the power to himself) in order to make sure it could not escape ?...
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Warbreaker readers: Is it about Siri?
« on: May 21, 2008, 09:18:37 PM »
I started to read Warbreakers and cannot express my opinion right now. But I agree with Ookla, come and join the thread "Just finished reading Elantris the other day". Maybe we could discuss your first belief while others read (in other words, by the time you find out who was the main character, I'll be able to answer your question )
(in other words, by the time you find out who was the main character, I'll be able to answer your question )
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn P&P RPG?
« on: May 21, 2008, 09:12:26 PM »
Well... we do see that Straff had one full Mistborn for 6 mistings. It could be the average, I guess. Also the House of Cett had only 1 misting and he had to "rent" from other houses to get a party to attack Vin - 1 mistborn and 7 mistings (not counting his own daughter which was not there, so that makes 8 mistings for 1 only mistborn) - on those only one Smoker, 3 or 4 Coinshots and I don't remember the others. Feruchemists are thought to be erased so they have to be very few.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Comprehensive Hemalurgy Thread
« on: May 21, 2008, 09:03:58 PM »
Marsh was guarding the entrance to the secret passage way to stop (by killing him) Sazed who wanted, in turn, to stop Vin to go to the Well. I believe it is safe to say that Inquisitors (and whatever force they're with) wanted the power to be freed.
The only thing is, though, that I cannot see Inquisitors be of Preservation. Since we do know that TLR touched only one of the two, we have to discard the other one. If TLR touched Preservation and also made the Inquisitors through his hemalurgical powers, than the evil and terrible power in the well would have to be Preservation and not Ruin as we think. Do you see my confusion ? And another question is, why did TLR not trust the Inquisitors ? It took them, after all, 1000 years to get the power that the Obligators had and that only through trickery.
On the contrary, if TLR touched Ruin and made the Inquisitors, we can deduct that the power in the Well was Ruin. You would not want to release your ennemy... unless of course, it became your ennemy during those 1000 years.
The only thing is, though, that I cannot see Inquisitors be of Preservation. Since we do know that TLR touched only one of the two, we have to discard the other one. If TLR touched Preservation and also made the Inquisitors through his hemalurgical powers, than the evil and terrible power in the well would have to be Preservation and not Ruin as we think. Do you see my confusion ? And another question is, why did TLR not trust the Inquisitors ? It took them, after all, 1000 years to get the power that the Obligators had and that only through trickery.
On the contrary, if TLR touched Ruin and made the Inquisitors, we can deduct that the power in the Well was Ruin. You would not want to release your ennemy... unless of course, it became your ennemy during those 1000 years.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn P&P RPG?
« on: May 21, 2008, 08:53:29 PM »
Even if I don't know much I agree with Eudaimoniac. If you take out mistings and players are all mistborns... where is the challenge ? What scenario could make any story fun ? Actually, mistborn should be limited in quantity and roles should be taken on roll of dice. Only 20% could be Mistborn, same as Feruchemist, and the others all Mistings or skaa 
as long as we do not have any more infos on Inquisitors, of course.
as long as we do not have any more infos on Inquisitors, of course.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: MB1 Prologue Epigraph Thingy
« on: May 21, 2008, 01:28:10 AM »
It is not a question as if Rashek would have waited that long, but would Alendi give him an occasion since he was hard to surprise ? I am actually thinking, since he was that hard to surprise, that he might have had a little help... do you think it would be possible that Alendi could... burn metals ? Tin, maybe ?
Andrew - Darxbane will receive them double lol I also sent him the files as soon as I got home and before I checked the forum.
you all have to add this part here taken from the Annotations :
Chapter Twenty-nine
I hope I'm not overdoing the parallels between Vin and the Logbook author, the previous person who thought that they might be the Hero of Ages. Some readers, in the original draft, thought her supposition (in the next chapter) that she was the Hero to be too much. They wondered where she got the idea.
I'm not trying to imply that Vin is or isn't the Hero. I'm just trying to show Vin's thought process. That's a tough line to walk in these chapters. As a writer, I want the narrative to be deeply inside someone's viewpoint, and therefore show who that character is and how they view the world. However, I don't want that narrative to indicate--certainly--that what the character thinks is actually true.
Andrew - Darxbane will receive them double lol I also sent him the files as soon as I got home and before I checked the forum.
you all have to add this part here taken from the Annotations :
Chapter Twenty-nine
I hope I'm not overdoing the parallels between Vin and the Logbook author, the previous person who thought that they might be the Hero of Ages. Some readers, in the original draft, thought her supposition (in the next chapter) that she was the Hero to be too much. They wondered where she got the idea.
I'm not trying to imply that Vin is or isn't the Hero. I'm just trying to show Vin's thought process. That's a tough line to walk in these chapters. As a writer, I want the narrative to be deeply inside someone's viewpoint, and therefore show who that character is and how they view the world. However, I don't want that narrative to indicate--certainly--that what the character thinks is actually true.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ashfalls
« on: May 20, 2008, 06:45:09 PM »
I would not put this past him. Vin talks about it once. She says that if she had been the Lord Ruler, she would have hid the Well... placing mountains in valley and flattening the mountains. So it could be the case. But I do not think it is a simple trap. It did not seem such a big thing for Vin to free the power once she was at the Well. If he did it, and I think that it might have happen, it was only to hide the Well itself. He truly made it hard to find with this secret entrance that only him knew and had the strength to open (beside Vin, of course).
It would also give him another reason to destroy his own people. After all, if it was in the Terris mountain, these people would have known of the transformation. Erase their memory and the makeover is really done. Send them in other mountains, more in the North, let circulate the information that the Terris people lived in mountains and who would know the difference ?
It's the people of TLR's country that believe they live at the poles. Isn't it Sazed that tells us of this ? I first thought of a change in inclination because there are a lot of people and you just cannot change the weather and everything else, without deep change, and lots of death due to that change. You just cant move so many people in the short time it took for the transformation to take place. Also, as you say Darxbane, there is not much change in temperature at the poles. It is always cold, always under zero. So, how could you explain that they sweat in summer and freeze in winter ? Of course, there are the Ashmounts, and of course, it would raise the temperature, but this does not explain how they can have snow in winter. So, instead of changing the inclination, after erasing the Terris's memories (i.e. feruchemist in general), he could have simply pretend that people lived at poles. Who would doubt his word ?
It would also give him another reason to destroy his own people. After all, if it was in the Terris mountain, these people would have known of the transformation. Erase their memory and the makeover is really done. Send them in other mountains, more in the North, let circulate the information that the Terris people lived in mountains and who would know the difference ?
It's the people of TLR's country that believe they live at the poles. Isn't it Sazed that tells us of this ? I first thought of a change in inclination because there are a lot of people and you just cannot change the weather and everything else, without deep change, and lots of death due to that change. You just cant move so many people in the short time it took for the transformation to take place. Also, as you say Darxbane, there is not much change in temperature at the poles. It is always cold, always under zero. So, how could you explain that they sweat in summer and freeze in winter ? Of course, there are the Ashmounts, and of course, it would raise the temperature, but this does not explain how they can have snow in winter. So, instead of changing the inclination, after erasing the Terris's memories (i.e. feruchemist in general), he could have simply pretend that people lived at poles. Who would doubt his word ?
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Finished Reading Elantris the Other Day
« on: May 20, 2008, 05:13:05 PM »
What can I add ?
Very useful post lol
Very useful post lol
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ashfalls
« on: May 20, 2008, 03:38:09 PM »
There are mentions of season, so it's not like it gets always colder. I would presume, like now, that summer tend to get warmer, and winter colder.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: MB1 Prologue Epigraph Thingy
« on: May 20, 2008, 03:01:37 PM »
Yes, that is exactly what I suggest. We know from Kwaan's steel plate, that Rashek's action was a last hope and he didn't place to much trust in that. Alendi had already survived many attempts to his life. He was strong and you could not surprise him. He wasn't an easy target. I think that if Alendi had entered the Well, he could have "see" a future (I always say "a" future" because the choice is always presented as well eventhough you do not see the other future) and filled with the power, he would be distracted enough for Rashek to come near him. But as you say, it could be only that he could imagine it after all he's seen. Mind you, I'm not convinced at all.
Moreover, filled with the power like this, having his blood "modified" by the liquid metal, I believe a transfer of power could even have been stronger by virtue of the power of that blood. Excuse my english, I just don't really know how to say it. But do you understand what I'm thinking ?
Moreover, filled with the power like this, having his blood "modified" by the liquid metal, I believe a transfer of power could even have been stronger by virtue of the power of that blood. Excuse my english, I just don't really know how to say it. But do you understand what I'm thinking ?
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn P&P RPG?
« on: May 20, 2008, 03:46:43 AM »
You have to be careful, though... especially with that storing age, thing. No other Feruchemist but TLR knew that you could store age in Atium. Atium had been hidden from people just like a lot of other metals as well.
I do not know how you could do it, but you should allow feruchemy to "discover" other metals when experience develop up to a certain level.
I am rereading MB1 and 2 to discover more about Inquisitors. See if there are any mention of metals other than Iron and Steel... That will help you as well. I spoke to a friend... and he says he won't help us unless he can play an Inquisitor He is crazy ! But Inquisitors have to be thought of for sure.
I do not know how you could do it, but you should allow feruchemy to "discover" other metals when experience develop up to a certain level.
I am rereading MB1 and 2 to discover more about Inquisitors. See if there are any mention of metals other than Iron and Steel... That will help you as well. I spoke to a friend... and he says he won't help us unless he can play an Inquisitor
He is crazy ! But Inquisitors have to be thought of for sure.