GoWibble Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) What 'powers' do people think that current diseases would cause? Edited March 13, 2020 by GoWibble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, GoWibble said: *I know that this isn't something to joke around with, but if it did give you a power, what would it be?* Since we know literally nothing about what kinds of diseases give what powers or why couden't you just ask the same question about the common cold? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoWibble Posted March 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Karger said: Since we know literally nothing about what kinds of diseases give what powers or why couden't you just ask the same question about the common cold? Well, I think that there were already possible examples given for that. Also, I did say that it applied for current diseases, of which corona is an example Edited March 13, 2020 by GoWibble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cardinal of Death Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 this WOB mentions the cold giving you flight even then its probably random for now until the book is made Questioner What idea for a book you loved didn't work? Brandon Sanderson Yeah. It happens all the time, absolutely happens all the time. There's one that I did some readings from, that I got a scene written, where I wanted to do this cool book where I had this setting. The pitch on it was, what if viruses and bacteria evolved to give people magical talents when you caught the disease. This idea that a bacteria doesn't actually want to kill you, or a virus doesn't want to kill you. It wants you to live and spread it. You getting sick is a side effect. What if the side effect is, you got the common cold, all the sniffles and everything, but you could fly as long as you had the common cold? What would that do to society? What happens when someone invents penicillin and can wipe out half of these magical talents? What happens if people start catching a disease that makes everything they touch start on fire. So it was a story about basically fantasy Jack Bauer, who's a member of the fantasy CDC, who tries to stop diseases and things like this. But in order to do his job, he has to keep his immune system terrible, like this weakling who can barely get up the steps, so that he can quickly catch diseases to get the powers he needs to deal with outbreaks of these things. It's just a really cool concept that I've never been able to gel into an actual story. It hasn't worked every time I've tried to write it. FAQFriday 2018 (Jan. 12, 2018) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 22 minutes ago, GoWibble said: Well, I think that there were already possible examples given for that. Also, I did say that it applied for current diseases, of which corona is an example My point is that it is not like we could possibly know so why not just ask generally? What powers do infections give you on Ashyn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoWibble Posted March 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 ok, I guess. I edited it so that it took out the example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuatoma Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Corona virus would give me the power to sense toilet paper, milk, eggs, cleaning supplies when I came into range of them; similar to a life sense. Additionally, people would be inclined to give me what they hoard. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Coronavirus would give the power to give other people powers, Joking aside, here's what we actually know of Ashyn's disease-based magic system: Since it's the microbes that give the powers, genetic disorders won't give powers. The powers we got to see in the Silence Divine reading were precognition, something that seems like it might be a bit similar to a Malatium Shadow, flight, transmutation of liquids. The diseases that gave the powers ranged from "the sniffles" to "deadly fevers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbondsmith Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 Anyone else reckon Silence Divine will be postponed/abandoned, given the current climate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 2 hours ago, jamesbondsmith said: Anyone else reckon Silence Divine will be postponed/abandoned, given the current climate? It does not have a release date anyway unless I missed something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted March 23, 2020 Report Share Posted March 23, 2020 3 hours ago, jamesbondsmith said: Anyone else reckon Silence Divine will be postponed/abandoned, given the current climate? No reason for it, Brandon has had the book on the back-burner for years so it's not like he's going to get flack for releasing it 'too soon' whenever it comes out since it's a long ways away, and it's not anything linked to a particular disease anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Oltux72 Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 On 13/03/2020 at 2:45 PM, Karger said: Since we know literally nothing about what kinds of diseases give what powers or why couden't you just ask the same question about the common cold? Probably not, as the common cold is not a single disease in terms of infectious agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 7 hours ago, Oltux72 said: Probably not, as the common cold is not a single disease in terms of infectious agent. True but we don't know what happens if you gather together multiple infectious agents or if identical symptoms give different or even related powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garlick Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Well its the corona virus. It gives you the power to make people drunk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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