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Do cores convert a Sacred Artist's physical mass into madra, to create more madra?
Pure madra is actually generated by the way the human body processes life aura and blood aura. It really is the interaction of body, mind, and spirit, in a sense.
So a sacred artist's body is naturally consuming blood, dream, and life aura?
Basically, yeah.
What kind of benefits do Cradlites get for doing that?
The ability to use madra.
So by 'powers of the iterations themselves' we can sort of take it that you mean that each universe has slightly different physics which enable that magic system to function as it does.
If you leave your iteration, your powers should cease then, right? You would have to learn the new system's magic...
In some cases, yes.
Anything you learn to do that manipulates the power of the world no longer functions outside of that world. So a Traveler wouldn't be able to open a Gate when they're in another Iteration, nor would a Reader be able to sense anything special (because Intent is no longer a fundamental force of the world).
However, any intrinsic powers stay intact (for the most part). The dolls would still be able to talk and read the wind, Awakened objects would retain their properties, and sacred artists would still be able to use most of their techniques.
Is there an Iteration that, like earth, has no magic system at all? And if so can they ascend past their Iteration with technology alone?
Let me put it this way: if there IS a non-magic world out there, they certainly could ascend using solely technology.
Will said earlier that the most common ilegal way access was commited by tech based scientists so I think we can assume that there are a bunch of high tech worlds or at least a few with really high populations.
I meant "people experimenting and breaking the universe" was the most common way to breach your world. If you're part of an Iteration in which magic is a natural force, there's no distinction between magic and technology. Warlocks are like computer scientists.
If a grown human, from another iteration, travelled to Cradle will they naturally develop madra channels and a core, and if so how long would it take?
A baby from another Iteration would develop a madra system normally, if perhaps weakly. An adult would gradually develop one, but it would take years and would probably be weak or even deformed without the equivalent of spiritual surgery. ...and you have no idea how tempting it was to use that answer to imply that Lindon was from another world. “A baby from another Iteration would develop a madra system normally, if perhaps weakly. Maybe they would be considered weaker than their fellows, even...Unsouled.” But he’s not, so no shenanigans.
What specifically is the difference between cycling vital aura to add it to your core and cycling madra to add it to your core like Jai Long does after he absorbs a remnant with the Ancestor's Spear? I thought cycling was the process of turning vital aura into madra but if you have to cycle madra you acquire directly then maybe I'm wrong.
"Cycling" is just moving madra through your body through certain patterns. You can cycle aura into madra, cycle your madra to prepare for certain techniques, etc.
In Blackflame you told us about Titan's Bone.“A stone is a piece of the earth, and it builds earth aura. An ordinary stone has only a mouthful of aura, but as the centuries pass, it grows stronger and stronger. It will continue absorbing power from the earth until it transforms. If left undisturbed, an ordinary rock will grow into a nugget of Titan’s Bone: all but unbreakable" What would happen if a source of fire aura was left undisturbed in the same way ? Inextinguishable flame ? Is this something we will hear about ?
Yes, there is such a flame! I’m hoping we’ll see examples of it soon, perhaps in Underlord, because they will be going to some neat places.
Do Iterations typically only have 1 habitable planet tying them to the Way or are there multiple in the Iterations' corner of their universe?
Yes. Typically, Iterations only have one habitable planet. No, that's not true. One inhabited planet. So that is typically the case. But that doesn't mean they only have one habitable planet and it doesn't mean that none of them have multiple inhabited planets. So there are some, definitely.
Obviously most Iterations don't have a hard "If you get to here, you're into the Abidan" line, but Cradle does. Does that contribute to the fact that Cradle has so many more Abidan candidates than other Iterations?
Other Iterations also have a clear final boundary, but they don’t have clearly defined steps and mechanics for steadily working your way up to that boundary. That’s the Cradle Difference (tm).
Oh, here's a legit one. In Sword Unclean, you mentioned pure aura, is that a typo or is that a retcon?
It's not a retcon, so it was probably a typo. Without looking it up, I suspect I meant "pure __ aura," with the blank filled in by whatever type of aura he was talking about.
Cradle: Are there paths that grant tremendous power swiftly at the cost of later advancement?
The most common Paths for those who want to gain quick power at any cost are blood/sword Paths. It's a common pairing, because a battlefield typically has both strong sword aura and strong blood aura.The aura is powerful, as well as easy to create and cycle: you just have to keep killing people. The stronger the physical body, the greater the power of the blood aura. Virtually everyone who walks a Path of slaughter and bloodshed reaches Truegold quickly.The problem comes after that.First of all, you've killed a lot of people, so you've made enemies. They won't let you get away with enjoying the spoils of your evil Path.Second, even if you manage to slip away, there's no hiding that the power of your soul is drenched in blood. There are blood arts focused on healing, and others focused on strengthening the body, but it's easy to sense the difference between those and powers gained through murder. Peaceful civilizations won't accept you, and there are even laws in many places banning "evil arts," "slaughter arts," "demonic arts," etc.Therefore, because interaction with other people is difficult, it becomes harder to obtain the backing you need for the resources to cross into Underlord and above. As every further stage requires more and more resources, eventually you'll find yourself stranded and surrounded by enemies. That, or killed in combat.But it's not as though no one has ever succeeded in advancing along this Path...
What's the most advanced piece of technology native to Cradle?
There are cloudships far more advanced than the one the Arelius family use, and they have powerful onboard weaponry as well as long-range communications and detection.However, it's difficult to develop technology that works reliably everywhere in Cradle. Gunpowder might explode with too much force in an area where fire aura is strong, or destruction aura might cause an engine to burn too much fuel. There are patches of aura that block certain detection methods, and beings whose very existence can cloud a sacred artist's spiritual senses.
Would Destruction madra strain your madra channels in the same way that blackflame does, or is that only blackflame?
Would it be possible for Lindon to use a technique that only used the destruction aspect of his madra? Kind of like how Jai Daishuo used a force ruler technique in Skysworn.
Sure he could, yeah. He could use fire aura to light fires or destruction aura to...accelerate the destruction of something that was already dissolving.
Destruction aura isn’t as useful as it sounds unless there’s a ton of it or you’re at a much higher level.
Destruction madra alone wouldn’t necessarily strain you the way Blackflame does, but it would also be more difficult to use in any useful way. If you didn’t learn to focus it effectively, a destruction Striker technique would be like spritzing weak acid on something.
Is void aura a thing?
No void aura is not a thing. There is no elemental attachment to aura in cradle's energy system.
So I know that what Li Markuth did was a violation of Fate, but would it also be a violation of fate if in some super high-tech world some scientists accidentally create a breach between iterations and wind up on Cradle or Amalgam? OR does it only count if it was your own personal power?
No, that would absolutely count. In fact, something like that is usually what happens.
Huh but then at what point does something become a violation of Fate?
Whenever it becomes a violation of Fate.
Seriously, you have to look and see where Fate is headed in order to know whether something is a violation or not.
There are some clear-cut infractions, like when ANYTHING from one world crosses over into another. That's two worlds that were never supposed to interact, and they're interacting.
But for the most part, it's very situational.
However, within a single world, you can't ACCIDENTALLY violate Fate. You have to be intentionally working against the forces of the rules, like trying to make yourself immortal, or tampering with time, etc.
Wait... if anything moving from one iteration to another is a violation, then how does one ascend from their world? Is that an exception to the rule since Sanctum has knowledge of the Way, the Abidan, and other iterations?
If everything goes to plan, we'll eventually get to see the ascension process firsthand! All those questions will be answered in time.
You can choose any object we have seen in any book you have written to bring into the real world. What object do you choose?
Ok, let's see. Any object I have written. I don't know. So, my criteria for answering that question is I would think of something that I would think that if I brought it in the real world, it would make the world more magical. It would give the world magic powers. So it depends on how it happens. I just want the world to be cooler. So I would look for an object in the books that would let me, oh, that's the answer. That's actually it. So it would be a world seed. Which what a world seed is, which I of course didn't go into detail in Uncrowned, but what seed is, is it is effectively, I mean, it's literally that. It's the seed of an Iteration. But more than that, it is an Iteration, it's leftover material from the creation of the original Iterations. So it can be used to do almost anything. So it's effectively like a blank check for modifying reality. Except when you use, you are kind of creating a new, you are overwriting your current reality, like your writing a new effect onto reality. So you can't just be like "Ah! Now everybody in Cradle likes me." It doesn't work that way. But you can change some of the fundamental rules of reality, so I could make a world or add a magic system. So that would be neat. The exact mechanics of how that works, will of course be forthcoming in a published work.
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Do any of the Iterations have standard holidays?
Yeah. Yeah, first of all, the iterations, they all have some kind of standard holiday. But one of the reason I did the Traveler's Gate short stories a few years ago, I did them around the holidays, is that Amalgam, the Traveler's Gate world, has a seasonal calendar. At least Damasca does. So therefore, the turning of the seasons is always marked by a holiday. And I did that both so you could have a sense of time that was sort of memorable, and so I could make a time line really clear. But that means they have a winter holiday. They have a spring holiday. They a fall holiday and a summer holiday. Everything kind of revolves around those. So the have a lot of seasonal holidays.
So if this person is asking if there are any cross-iteration holidays, not sure. I think seasonal holidays tend to be, most cultures have seasonal holidays. So I would suspect, and this is probably how I would work in a holiday series, I would suspect there would be some sort of resonance in the Way, because it's such a commonly held concept. So there would be some icon, so to speak, that would be reflective of what fall is, and what a fall holiday is, so you would end up getting some sort of blend between Halloween and Thanksgiving, that is almost a universal holiday, then there would be one of those for each season. So that is probably the way I would do it. (responding to chat) The Santa icon. Yes, that would be what it is. It would be something like the winter, I mean you wouldn't, there wouldn't be a name for it. It's not like an icon you manifest. It's just a concept in the way.
Ozriel, the Reaper
When a world lives too long and drifts from the Way, only one person can terminate the Iteration without scattering corrupted fragments that threaten other worlds.
For most of the history of the Abidan, there was no Ozriel. They eliminated worlds the old-fashioned way, and most of their manpower was spent defending Iterations from chaos-corrupted fragments. Ozriel reduced the threat of corruption to such a degree that the Abidan could spread their manpower to an unprecedented degree. Where once it took hundreds of Abidan to protect and maintain a single Iteration, now that same team could supervise an entire Sector of ten or more worlds.
However, the entire system of the current Abidan now hinges on one man.
Where most Judges are rule-abiding and structured by nature, Ozriel is not so rigid. He often challenges Abidan laws and traditions, trying to change and improve the policies of their organization. He might have succeeded by now if he were willing to relinquish control and cooperate with others. But, traditionally, he has never been much of a team player. When others don't agree with him, he tends to do exactly what he wants anyway.
As the one individual in existence with a world-erasing superweapon, he's used to getting his way.
And now he's missing.
Is it possible to cultivate "Sex aura", if so what would this look like? What kind of remnant would you bond to get to gold? What kind of Iron body would be best suited for this path?
Sex aura: no, that's not possible. If anything, you'd generate some form of interaction between dream and blood aura, but it probably wouldn't be anything unique.
Is an Iteration's magic system usable outside of the planet but still within the Iteration?
Yes. If you're outside the main planet you're still inside the-anywhere in the reality the magic system is usable. Unless it's resource based, so if there was something like Brandon Sanderson's allomancy, that would be potentially restricted to that planet because it could be that resource is only found on that planet, right? Other than that, yeah, the metaphysics are the same anywhere within the Iteration. And that is, by the way, why it is a dimension and not just a planet. Otherwise I would have just done planets.
So how does aura become madra?
A sacred artist draws the aura into themselves and into their core, where they make it part of their spirit. If they succeed, they’ve taken control of a small amount of aura, which merges with their current madra so they share properties.
