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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Gathering Storm - First Impressions *SPOILERS*
« on: November 01, 2009, 09:46:25 PM »
Tam, along with other Two Rivers men, joined Perrin when they attacked the Aiel camp to get Faile.
"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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QuoteHere's my question. How would Ruin "get" the atium and what exactly would he do with it? what did he have to do once he "got" it to gain its power?
Ruin would influence people into taking the atium; and once it is in the hands of people, the nature of atium is such that it causes conflict, for a few reasons:
1. It is very valuable AND useful, and there is not enough to go around (mostly because the Mistborn and Seers use it all up). So if someone else has it, you want it, whether that's because you want to burn it or because you want to sell it. Either way, in many cases, this leads to violence and destruction.
2. Atium as a feruchemical bracelet (an Atiummind) stores age, and generally the people who would use it for this purpose are the type of people who would tend to cause violence.
3. In an allomantic battle, atium makes it much more likely for one person to beat the other (rather that it ending in someone running away). Whoever has less atium dies, basically.
Hope that helped.
When someone is attracted to someone else, that attraction is inevitably sexual in nature. One cannot say that one finds someone "attractive but not sexually attractive" in the context discussed here. Merely noting that someone is pretty is sexually motivated.