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I have a couple thoughts/ questions about the magic system on scadrial. As Harmony has come into existence by combining preservation and ruin is he a new larger shard that has all of the original two shards intent and will or is he a vessel containing the two shards together but still separate and in opposition. Ok so that is sort of a strange question but my thought process is that if harmony is a “new” shard would he be able to create his own new magic system? Along those same lines would the original three magic systems in this system change or disappear as the original shards have changed into something else?

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Harmony is one "bigger" Shard now; if Sazed were to die, there would be one shard Harmony that someone could pick up.

In Era 2 we've only seen relatively minor changes to the magic systems - no full mistborn and feruchemists but now there's twinborn (both due to dilution/mixing of inherited potential), there's a different godmetal (harmonium) instead of atium and lerasium, the mists are a bit different and snapping is a bit different though we don't know how exactly. But overall the magic systems look in large part unchanged.

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Even though they are “one” Shard now, Ruin and Preservation are still there. They are fused/intermingled but Sazed could still take off a piece of pure Preservation or Ruin and do things with that


 

little wilson

Are Ruin and Preservation separate in Sazed or are they fully combined together like can he give one of them, or does he have to give both.

Brandon Sanderson

They are not fully combined. I mean that's not the way this works. He could pull off a piece of one even and make-- stuff like that. That's totally, totally viable. I mean it's basically what happened with the spren. The spren existed before even Honor was destroyed and things like that.

Holiday signing (Dec. 12, 2015)

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Thanatos17901

If Sazed were to die, would he drop the Shards Ruin and Preservation, or would he drop the Shard Harmony?

Brandon Sanderson

Excellent question. The shards are now intermingled, and would take effort to split apart. He would drop Harmony. (This is what Odium feared would happen, by the way.)

/r/fantasy AMA 2013 (April 23, 2013)

Magic systems come from intersection of a Shard's Intent and the Shardworld, and those things haven't changed. Harmony could change the magic, but Harmony's Ascension wouldn't cause the magic to change by itself. He has changed the magic a bit 

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The change in how the magic (on Scadrial) interact with each other, was that done by Sazed?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes it was. You will find a theme. The snapping in Mistborn is actually a repeated theme through a lot of the different magics. Um, but what I felt at the end of the day Sazed would do something about it. So, even though that is part of the magic system, he changed that. The change to Feruchemy is more a matter of other factors such as the large amount of interbreeding that happened following...and things like that. And so a lot of people with Feruchemy sDNA mixing with people with people with Allomantic sDNA has affected the way the magics blend, so to speak. That's not done by Sazed. That's just kind of an effect.

Steelheart Seattle signing (Oct. 14, 2013)

 

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