Shards and other Magic Systems (Just For Fun)

[StanLemon]

How do you like to imagine other Shards would affect the magic systems on other worlds. 

[Quantus he/him]

I tend to think that Ambition would have made for a...volatile cultural influence on their shardworld, with the magi cplaying into it.  Though to be honest it would have a core Ladder-Climber accumulation bent to it in my mind, which starts getting similar to Breaths.

I think Odium likes to mimic and/or corrupt others, so Im not sure we'll ever see a truly original from him (though that might be worth asking if I ever have an opportunity).  Ambition Autonomy I think will have a bunch of different ones, individually closer to minor shardworlds in actual power (due to the avatar Influence) though if Autonomy=Trell then there's some mimicry there too.

Lately Im having more fun thinking about how other nations Might use Awakening on Nalthis (which we'll get to see more of in Nightblood).  I want to see complex machines with individually awakened components, like huge industrial mills and factories with Drive Gears/Shafts that are awakened to Turn forever.  If Nightblood exists because Nalthis Scholars worldhopped over to Roshar, what might happen if some Scadrial industrial influence made it over there?

 

Past that, my current guesses for the Unknown shards are:

-Conviction (whose Intent and Magic would Involve Hardening/reinforcing one's realmic Aspects to be highly resistant to Change/Influence),

-Enlightenment (who is too aware of what is going on to get involved and currently has no Planet to Invest in and make a magic system),

-the Demiurge/World-smith (a Creator shard whose magic would involve actual original Creation of new Realmic objects from Investiture, as compared to Forgery that ReWrites it or Hemalurgy that Splices it; this would be a Sanderson example of the classic Conjurer that whips up things from thin air),

-The Paragon/Survivor (whose magic would be a very Internalized sort of physical Augmentation, and Im really hoping against all hope that it will prove to already be, or once have been, active on Scadrial since Feruchemy fits it sooo very well), not to mention there's that Guy...

-The Ascetic, who I picture as a sort of detached hermit Monk sort of thing, and whose magic will be realmic power via internalized mediation and conscious understanding of your own Spirit-web. 

 

 

Edited September 11, 2018 by Quantus
Autonomy, not Ambition...