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This is a new writing project of mine, a high fantasy story entire separate from my "Realm of the Stars" space opera series. I also plan to have an update for that ready to go within the week, and intend to alternate chapters of both for a while!
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Sequel to Realm of the Stars Volume I: The Unclaimed Crown, which may be found here: Feedback welcome on both stories!
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Which is your favorite Magic sistem and why?
MasterGhandalf replied to Matias's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Had to go with Scadrial myself; allomancy in particular is just a really great set of powers that synergize in interesting ways, and seeing it through Vin's POV especially gives a great sense not only for how the power works but how it feels that I think few other magic systems, Brandon or otherwise, have matched. Feruchemy's not bad either, and hemalurgy is some seriously disturbing stuff. Runner-up would probably be Roshar, but I'll hold back because I think there's still a lot regarding surgebinding and, especially, voidbinding that we haven't seen yet. Compared to other major Cosmere works, I'd have to say that Awakening always felt like a cool idea that Warbreaker never quite used to its full potential, though that's possibly because our only main Awakener character is Vivenna, who doesn't come into her powers until relatively late in the novel (there's Vasher too, of course, but he doesn't get as much focus as Viv, Siri, or Lightsong). And while a lot of Sel's magic systems are cool, they also feel the most like "traditional sorcery" of any of the Cosmere systems; AonDor has some neat mechanics behind it, but it's actual use is fairly similar to other "rune magic" systems in works like Weis and Hickman's Death Gate Cycle or Garth Nix's Old Kingdom books, and bloodsealing is fairly obvious necromancy. Overall, gotta give the metallic arts, and allomancy especially, the top spot here, with surgebinding as a number two. -
And we come to the end... for now, at least. Epilogue! And a final round of character portraits as well! A big thank you to everyone who's been following along with me (and Arta) on this journey!
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New chapter! After this one, there's only the epilogue - almost done!
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New chapter! Just a few more to go, now...
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Is the Wyrn position hereditary
MasterGhandalf replied to Arcoss's topic in Elantris and Emperor's Soul
Based on what we're told in Elantris, Wyrn was originally the name of a famous Fjordell king but seems to have turned into the title for the joint position of ruler of Fjorden/Derethi high priest at some point later on, as the current Wyrn's real name is Wulfden IV (who is also described as being fairly young for the position, IIRC). That said, like Calderis I'm of the opinion that there's something very fishy going on with Wyrn, which Brandon has already hinted at in the book itself and the annotations. My personal theory is that there's something similar to the classic fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros going on - in that book, Gorice the Witch-King of Carce is one immortal dude who pretends to be a dynasty by incarnating in a new body every time he's killed, so that Gorices I-XI have all been different incarnations of the same man. So back to the Cosmere, if this is true that would make Wulfden merely the latest incarnation of Wyrn, who has possibly been the same person going back to the first Derethi priest-emperor or even to the pre-Derethi king who got an epic named after him. How he might do this I'm less sure about, considering all we know about Wyrn's magic is that he can apparently see the future fairly well - my guesses would be that he's either a body-hopping cognitive shadow, who possesses each "new" Wyrn in turn, or just uses something like the Dakhor ability to alter someone's appearance (like was used on Dilaf) to periodically allow himself to "die" and be succeeded by a "new" Wyrn. If true, the Skaze are probably involved in this process somewhere. As for the original question, my assumption has always been that if Wyrn is a position and not an immortal individual, that when the old Wyrn dies he either names a successor or the gyorns elect one of their own for the job, a bit like how the Pope is selected. Wyrn directly naming a successor seems a bit more Derethi. But none of the other Derethi positions are hereditary, so my gut says Wyrn isn't either, but I don't think we have enough info to say for sure. -
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New chapter for real this time.
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Some more character portraits today; this time Karani and Quarinis. Next chapter should be up in a day or two.
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