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An example, one country has it where everyone can resurrect one person, once. So the king/queen's guard are sworn off love, since otherwise they might be compromised if it came to their one-off power during an assassination. Also, resurrective current is correlated with things like water and magma, whereas necromantic current is more atmospheric. The Skullstorm is a perpetual weather phenomenon studied by the nunlike Clay Sisterhood using bonekites (kites made with bone frames) for instance.

Take the difference between raising a corpse, and resurrecting a person, and get a magic system out of it haha In this (unnamed for now) setting, the above is the base, with features like: Override: generally, a stronger resurrector can override a necromancer's control over a dead being. This applies even after the dead creature is fully raised. Of course there's a necromancer antagonist so he is strong enough to win a relevant fight of this nature (regarding the remains of dead gods...). Thanatos decay: raised beings will, without sufficient "nutrition", decay from corpses to skeletons to ghosts. I can't remember why I wanted liches and "wraiths" specifically in that sequence, and for now I have liches as the result of using necromancy on oneself while committing suicide. EDIT: I also have magical robotics, possibly as the result of dual current input, here.

This is a great setting idea, but see THE WAKING ENGINE or PALIMPSEST (or Lovecraft's Dream Cycle) for analogues that you can learn from in other ways (e.g. comparison/contrast).

If I held a Shard, well... Unnamed Shard with Wisdom/Ingenuity/survival connotations/denotations would become Reason, and the other five would become whatever it took for me to reason out their Intent

True, I am just being overly defensive of TROS All I can think is the superfleet must've been made using tech mentioned in KOTOR (well more than mentioned) and either the writers assumed the audience would recognize the possibility, forgot that they were referring to KOTOR implicitly, or are trying to help play the long game with the franchise, setting us up for more KOTOR tie-ins (like the Revan reveal). EDIT: Because man did I do an Extended Universe dive today on SW superweapons, and the new trilogy's got nothing on those haha

Maybe Kal is a descendant of Nohadon.

Well, the US started out with the weaker Hiroshima bomb, also had the Nagasaki one, kept building those and then outta nowhere almost they forge the Trident fleet, etc.

A. I didn't mind not having to guess who would live or die, when or why. I'm tired of having to guess that elsewhere. In other words: kind of no point to include a character if they just randomly die as a "surprise" to make the story "edgy" or what. At least, if the story isn't *supposed* to be edge-or-what. And the STAR WARS sagas are more or less the definition of not-necessarily-edgy-or-what, if I'm not mistaken. B. The villain seems random? Why more planetkillers? But original Palpatine and the second Death Star were already examples of those "problems." The Last Jedi brought in the deeper theme, which DOES resonate with Lucas' vision: the arms dealers, and in turn the military-industrial complex, of a superempire. Especially a superempire that emerges from a democracy (*cough* America, nuclear weapons, and the Trident submarines *cough*). Also, with Darth Revan from the games being canonized, and the whole Mandalorian-ness of, well, The Mandalorian, I think the appearance of a huge fleet of planetkilling Star Destroyer ships might end up dovetailing with the Starforge concept in the game that Revan comes from. I mean, right now it's like, "And how did they build that???" but the STAR WARS Cinematic Universe is certainly not over with, so... C. There are a lot of good Nausicaa homages/references. Rey of course already was that. But her talking down the underground worm, healing in general... Then Ren going into the Sith crypt, hella like Nausicaa/the Vai Emperor going into the Crypt of Shuwa (if you've read the graphic novels). D. Besides, the BOOKS have included (I know, not canon, "until now" mwahaha) a cloned Emperor Palpatine, and a Force dyad (although I don't think that was the term) fighting him in the midst of a super-sized Force storm. Granted, that storyline just had one quasi-planetkiller Star Destroyer (IIRC it was called the Eclipse), and the ship was either 1/3rd or 2/3rd the power of the Death Star (the booklet I read about it said it could break the surface of a planet open but not destroy the whole thing) and the Force dyad was Luke and Leia, but so what? /endrant, I'm not mad at anyone about it, but I felt like writing in an aggressive tone

Daybreak is sprenized in Shadesmar---or was, but then the spren of dawn was shattered. The bearers of light or whoever are bringing at least one with them. This goes back to "the Girl Who Looked Up." Disproof: except there were Dawnshards on Ashyn, storm it

Theory of the year. imo...

... "voserev awsren Saedir Emai?"

Not helpless enough

More like Sensual Moash

I actually think it's Sanderson masquerading as Hoid masquerading as Nohadon masquerading as Cultivation masquerading as Honor. Mine's not a good theory.

I think the world is made up of a lot of "if-then" and a lot of "or, or not", causality and free will on different levels. Deny either and you deny a basic logical concept (hypotheticals, disjunctions), ultimately. Also, we can question anything. Like, not only every specific law of cause-and-effect ever proposed, but the law of all those laws, too. So purely by being able to ask questions, we can separate our will from necessitation as such.

Spoiler alert!!!

Wherefore the preface to this resistance is true, the Axioms of Paradise and reason's trinities a tower of fire defy; and in the Days of Ascension, seven fallen are denied. Of their dominion "was" an end. Will always be until the end. But alas! the broken come To seal all light in the dimension of sin, Or else to herald the end of all that there is; and why ask why this should be? If all is denied for the sake of three things? But if darkness is nothing instead, how would the darkness not come to an end? To heaven to go, to take a stand, to sing the song of silence, to pass the Test: "Wherefore Apollyon et Ripheus" EDIT: on another site, a poster described my proposed plot for book 1 as Vonnegut/SH5 kind of, only in Vietnam/the multiverse or what

I forgot to mention the 10 gas giants

What if every major enduring storm system or climate type or what, has a unique spren, like Cusicesh for a "lesser" climate-structure in it's area? And the bridge to Braize involves in the weather of that world? And that the Everstorm has always been the vehicle of the Fused, then? Think of how the Eye of Jupiter is an enduring thing, like we seem to "carve nature at its joints" here. Or wind-personification generally IRL and in the SA. I think climatespren must be a thing, an important thing as such then, even...

Whuuuut maybe it's from Braize!!! Oooh, new theory time...

The Everstorm isn't new? My two broams: NoS has to do with vanishing stars as in the last WoK vision.

Idk why but this makes me think of THUNDERCATS.

IIRC, the author of the Thomas Covenant novels, Stephen R. Donaldson, has a method where he comes up with an ending and reverse-engineers the beginning and middle of a story as the logical precursors (in the story) to the ending. Not that he's perfect at it, but plenty of scenes he's written showcase his talents on this score quite nicely. With that caveat, it is sort of unreasonable, maybe, for me to post the following scene, since it is part of the endgame scene for the last entry in what would have to be a fairly well-sized series of fantasy/science fiction novels (probably 14, one title for each line in a poem of 14 lines). Or, it is a prototype of this scene, or whatever. I'm talking thousands of pages of preamble and backstory omitted Well, in case this works: [Prerequisite information] The immediate scene: the transcendent plane, true heaven, where the eternal light shines. An infinite city that transcarnates the Holy Trinity (of this world). However, the only part of this true city that has the anticity of Apollyon superimposed against it. So, a part of the eternal city that looks like this, roughly [https://www.wallpaperup.com/uploads/wallpapers/2014/02/11/251901/37be6afd85406c5e7ebf5a2e7524d293-700.jpg]: Why is this so? Or how? There are angels in this world, with strange levels of power, and so the darkest of the fallen angels, darker all the more in that he did truly redeem himself once upon a time, only to fall even more terribly later, now that is: this one, Vyrian Armirex, has given his share of the last form of magic to be granted to transcreation, the Final Power, unto the one entity sealed against possession from itself, of the very thing, namely Apollyon. And Armirex and the Destroyer have chased the Form of Evil from the physical planes, to here, to bring it to an end. [Now, the Form of Evil looks like a huge gem, with a hydra trapped inside it. This hydra symbolizes the sinful form of lying that the Form of Evil represents most exactly.] Ripheus has followed them. Armed only with his part in the Final Power, and the Shield carven at the dawn of the world from the heart of the City of Destruction, he has gone to try to understand what Armirex is doing, for even now it is a mystery why the once-fallen angel has lapsed again? And in this way? Magic comes from many things, but the ultimate magic comes from a machine: the Keyscape, created by Ripheus and his host at the end of the last war in history. The Keyscape is failing, giving rise to the Anomalies, warps in pure reality that threaten to unrealize everything. So, Ripheus stands before Armirex, Apollyon, and the Form of Evil, remembering the prophecy that says: "Apollyon came to destroy that which does not exist."] ... So yeah Ripheus knows how to fix it, will post that scene later hopefully. If you can figure out how/why, and you have the will to, try to imagine the above scene while listening to the song "One-Winged Angel," from FF7: Advent Children. There's a way to line it all up pretty nicely haha.

It was the way he rambled. I didn't notice how storming disturbing Mr. T sounds in that scene until I reread the book twice. But maybe that's just me.

I think Taravangian is too creepy for that. Remember him rambling about trapped spren? There's more wrong with him than on/off days, maybe.