Songs of Power as Cultivation's 10 Magics.

[tyler274]

I've been thinking about the importance of songs and the singing the Listeners due with infused gemstones to encourage plants to grow. What if Cultivation's 10-centric magic system is a set of 10 songs which can be used by someone with a deep Connection to Cultivation and Roshar (such as the Singer/Listeners). These Songs of Power can do things like encourage plants to grow via a hypothetical Song of Progression. Lifelight in the system would be acquired by singing Cultivation's song by a Connected individual to infuse a sphere as we see with the Song of Prayer and so on. The songs would follow the 10 surges we've seen, and the Song of Transformation especially, could inspire the Old Magic stories. 

Edited November 28, 2020 by tyler274

[IndigoAjah he/him]

I think this makes sense, especially given similarities to ideas in Wheel of Time, and the discovery of how key sounds/songs are in Roshar. I like the idea as it's very different and would I think have to manifest either purely on the singer or to the general area rather than a target. So the Song of Flight would make everyone hearing it resist Gravity (or maybe the opposite?), The Song of Growth heals and makes everything that hears it grow etc

I like this idea because it fits with Cultivation as a concept and is a foil to both other magic systems, where Honor's seems targeted and Odium's Fused powers self-directed (and Radiants generally can be either, as their surgebinding, I think, has ties to both Honor and Odium)

 

 

Edited November 28, 2020 by IndigoAjah