Cloaked Mystery

@ellie-wingfeather

Welcome to KP! I’m Cloaked Mystery, known more mundanely as Jonas. I’m mainly a fantasy writer, though I tend towards fantasy with hard rules, verging on sci-fi. As my sister already mentioned, we are both working on a shared fantasy universe with multiple planets.

I’m bad at the newbie-questions tradition, so I’m going t…[Read more]

@rae

Yeah, we’ve been trying. I’m not sure how we can do that, but I want to if we can.

@rae

What do you mean?

@thearcaneaxiom

I think Sanderson said you would have to “hack” the magic system to get AonDor to work off world.

Sanderson is well known for his magic systems, but I feel like AonDor and all of the other magic systems that are only hinted at are all fairly boring. AonDor is quite generic for a magic system. It can do basically anything, and it…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

I just finished Elantris. I don’t have much thought on the story at the moment, except that it was relatively mediocre. I feel like a lot of it has been done better in his later books. For instance, Raoden’s plot line was very similar to Kaladin’s in WoK, but I didn’t find Raoden as interesting of a character.

I’m more intereste…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Wouldn’t presence make both phase though? It’s extra-dimensional space, but it’s still a directional vector, unless I’m thinking about your idea of in-between planes wrong. It could still be rationalized I guess even then, just having a restricted spatial influence, just like 3d spatial restriction.

Okay, so I’m not really th…[Read more]

One thing I was just thinking about is that the Resonance of Conversion creates the possibility of a manmade magic system. It would be possible for Conversion to create a new form of Arcana if you knew what you were doing. On its own, this would be useless, but it’s also possible you could create the ability to use the new Arcana. Conversion a…[Read more]

@loopylin

In case you forgot, Riina is still in a standoff with Mr. Gregory. No pressure, I just wasn’t sure if you remembered or not since you have RPd for some of your other characters since then.

@thearcaneaxiom

Didn’t Hoid give Kelsier a good beating? Unless that doesn’t count, since He’s a cognitive shadow.

Yep, it didn’t count. Hoid said that Kelsier’s mind fabricated the pain that he should feel, and so he isn’t actually hurting him.

@thearcaneaxiom

I’m just wondering who held the other Dawnshard you were talking about.

Oh, that. Hoid used to have a Dawnshard. I don’t remember where that is stated, though. That’s why he can’t hurt people. His dawnshard is characterized as being “diametrically opposed to harm.” That really sounds like the Survive dawnshard to me.

Lag

Okay so pg 333 in my copy of Arcanum Unbounded. Part 6 Chapter 4 of SH.

@thearcaneaxiom

Oh wait, you mean the orb that Kelsier used to take the shard of Preservation? I think that was some sort of invention by those people he stole it from. I don’t think it has anything to do with a Dawnshard. The only thing I referenced from SH was the line where Leras says “SURVIVE” in all caps. Let me find where that is.

@thearcaneaxiom

Wait, what orb?

@thearcaneaxiom

Yeah, Invested Art is basically the in-universe term for magic system. I haven’t read LM either. I think Harmony was talking about having a difficult time acting due to the conflicting intents in the other WaW books.

Oh lag

@rae

How is Fennin going to not die if it blows up?

@thearcaneaxiom

Yeah it seems that the dawnshards are nearly, or possibly completely, useless on their own. It also seems to be implied that they could be used to supercharge invested arts somehow.

We know that they were used to shatter Adonalsium in the first place, but since they seem to do nothing without investiture, they must have also used…[Read more]

@thearcaneaxiom

Just looking at Fusion, destruction, amplification, and dynamism, I feel like there’s much potential interaction. I think there’s a whole lot of interesting you could do mechanically. Using destruction to precisely carve any kind of shape out of any kind of substance is nice, and that in tandem with pure fusion, connecting obj…

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@rae

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