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What would an amazing pure goldsign be What would a meh pure goldsign be
Amazing: blades extending out of your forearms that cut through only spirits, ignoring matter and flesh. Meh: endless pure madra tears running down from your eyes.
Is purity and quality of madra only about aspects or mostly about aspects, because I was thinking if it is, then Lindon and Eithan's pure cores are more or less very similar, except that Eithan did something with the soulfire to make it more dense or something along those lines?
So Eithan and Lindon's cores are very similar in that they're using the same jade cycling technique, so therefore they're increasing quantity and using external means to increase quality. So yes they would be very similar.
What was your journey as a writer?
Last weeks' stream that I didn't answer well because I wasn't prepared for it, somebody asked me what my journey as a writer was. They asked me to expand on my journey as a writer and I didn't know how to answer that question. That was something that I was like hmm. The problem is that there's too many answers to that question. It's not that it's a bad question or there's not an answer, it's that I could talk about that. It's a years long journey that is constantly evolving so it's hard for me to give a straightforward answer in a stream.
But I thought about it over the course of the last week because that was an answer that I should have done better answering and here is what I came up with. One of the things I remember as a kid, is I remember in high school or middle school and I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and I was going wow this book is amazing. This guy's writing style is so great I love it. I was talking about how well written it was and I was just going this is insane. And I saw all these other people talking about how Dan Brown's writing style was cheap or it wasn't good or it wasn't fleshed out and I was like what are you talking about?
First of all, it's a best selling novel. Second of all, it's engaging from beginning to end. It's a story that's very hard to put down. I found out later as I grew in my education and knowledge of writing that it's a style called pot boiler, which you keep the pot boiling so you keep stuff happening so the end of every short chapter there's kind of a hook that keeps you moving on to the next chapter. And I remember thinking people are looking down on him for this? Why? Clearly this is an intentional choice, he's not doing this accidentally or because it's an easy crutch.
And it really reminded me of in video games when you're losing to somebody and they're playing a character and you go your character is overpowered. Well if your character is overpowered enough to get you easy wins why aren't you playing that character? So, that was kind of my thought on that. But I thought look it's a more engaging, more entertaining writing style. Later on, in college, I had a professor who said to us in the class hey I hate to break it to you guys but J.K. Rowling is not a good writer. And I thought, hmm. Now I was significantly older at this time and I've learned a lot more. Again, I'm in college for creative writing so I have a lot more of my own opinions and I'm going wait a second, if your definition of good writing doesn't include the most popular fiction series ever written, probably your definition is the one that is wrong.
So I was not into their definition of what a good story was. So I continued to develop that and really my definition of what good writing was or what a good story was is good writing is something that engages the reader. It's a story that engages the reader and that they are eager to keep reading and something that immerses them and causes them to have an emotion, whatever emotion you're trying to express. So it entertains them and gives them emotional reactions.
There's a... I was talking about this to my sister who is a big Jane Austen fan and she mentioned that in Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen goes on this monologue that I didn't remember. I actually took a course in college it was on the history of the development of the novel as a form, as what we now know as the novel, where it came from. One of the authors we studied was Jane Austen. The long and the short of it is around Jane Austen it was mostly women who wrote these novels to one another and so it was not considered serious. It was considered this is something that oh well women do that in their spare time it's not worth reading. Which is very odd to us now. And so Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey goes off and starts talking about that. How novels are not considered a serious pursuit and she mocks people basically for having that opinion. Which that oh yeah novels aren't serious and you should be reading historicals or you should be reading science or you should be reading... and I, of course, we agree with that now right? Yeah, well obviously Jane Austen is worth reading and people that, in their day, that considered that a lesser form of reading were clearly incorrect, they were just wrong and we can easily see that.
Except people do the same thing now. There's this weird hierarchy between things that are made for entertainment and things that are made for some other purpose. And my thought was, that is not true. If you set out to entertain your reader and you entertain your reader you have succeeded and you have done an excellent job. So that's kind of my journey as a writer and my journey of what I thought good writing was and what I think good writing means and how I developed that.
It was a years long thing of me reading books and going what did I like about this? What did I enjoy? And one of the funniest things to me is people talk about all these literary stories and these classics and how they matter more because they're dealing with fundamental human experiences. They are dealing with topics that are more serious and topics that people can really relate to and mean something deep. And I thought back to all the books that meant something deep to me and that had the lessons that had stuck with me and the stories that really mattered to me and they tended to be the stories that I enjoyed the most. So, no matter how great your message is, it doesn't get out if people aren't listening. So I felt like the ones that score at all were the ones that were entertaining and the ones that were not entertaining you're not going to listen to them regardless of how good the point is. So that was kind of my philosophy and how it developed that and how I developed as a writer. So that is the answer to that question.
1) Would someone from the Abidan Court leave a remnant, can someone who uses the power of the Way even leave a remnant?
2) If Lindon, Yerin and Eithan advance to the world beyond Cradle would they be babies in the new world or adults?
3) Does any world beyond Cradle use Madras?
1.) Most of the seven Court members are not from Cradle, so no, they would not leave a Remnant. Any normal Abidan from Cradle would leave one, but it might not be capable of tapping into the Way. If it can't, then it's much less powerful than the Abidan was in life, and would be easily exterminated by anything capable of killing an Abidan.
2.) Depends on where they go and when/how they advance. Lots of factors in play.
3.) Not exactly. This is difficult to answer without getting into spoiler-y specifics.
Were there ever sacred artists that use a hunger madra Path?
Effectively no.
Is there a sylvan seed for every aspect of madra? If not, what aspects can become seeds?
Here's how I see sylvan whatever seeds. I see them as natural spirits that form from centers of especially pure aura. So anything where it's not capable, where that wouldn't happen naturally, I suspect there would be no sylvan blade seed for instance like why would there be that many swords occurring naturally, that sort of thing. In general, I think most aspects do indeed have their own little blue equivalents, little green, little purple. Little green is the healer.
Can one person inherit multiple distinct bloodline powers (eg akura armor + aurelius senses)?
No. So, the idea is you have one... (Will gets distracted by a scarecrow.) All right. So you really have slot, so to speak, for a bloodline power. So if you did inherit two bloodline powers, they would blend. They would blend, or one would overwrite the other. It depends on how powerful the ancestor leaving you the bloodline power was and ow much of it you inherited. So if you inherited a really strong measure of a bloodline power, that one would be dominant. The example of course is Akura armor and Arelius web detection, because those are the two major bloodline powers in the series. With those two, it would really depend. If you were a direct descendent of Malice almost certainly your bloodline would be stronger than the Arelius one, so it would probably just be overwritten. But there's a possibility you would get a hybrid. So if Malice left a stronger, it would kind of be like a, lets say a suit of armor that had some detection capabilities while it was active. And was a different color, or was more sensitive to being controlled, or armor that now as part of its defensive mechanism web of madra. Akura, your right. Akura. That's definitely how you say it and always was.
What would a monarch level poison do?
It would be sentient, more like a plague than a poison, and it would not only devour the spirit and the mind, but would corrupt the madra and aura of the land around it as well. Inside a Monarch, being contained by their spirit, it might just act like a normal poison would in a normal person.
Are there other colors of dragon madra beyond "black"flame?
The dragons who inhabited the lands of the Blackflame empire were (and are) black, the color of the destructive aura that they cycled. There are sea dragons that are blue, sky dragons with a variety of colors, and earthbound land dragons that might be green or brown.But you asked about the color of their flame, not the color of their scales. Yes, there are dragons with toxic green flame, frigid icy "flame" that consumes even as it freezes, good old natural flame, and red living flames that drift around like Remnants burning as much as possible to extend their fleeting lives.
Although I have to say, now that we have a better grasp on how strong the sword sage was, his death seems kinda lame. I mean, they were jades and hes... something a lot stronger.But, I guess that it kind of shows that whatever level he was at, it wasn't something one should call a god or immortal yet. Still very much human and susceptible to death.
Everything you said is absolutely true, but I'm going to respond with a mild spoiler.[MILD SPOILER ALERT]Under normal conditions, a bunch of Jades would not have been able to kill him even if he were poisoned and asleep.I tell you this so you know that I'm aware of this apparent contradiction, there IS an explanation, and it WILL be shown to you in the future.
This might be a world builder but oh well. I think we can assume that the Way isn't madra. So does becoming part of the Abidan force you to change you path, or does it simply enhance the path you are currently on?
You wouldn't have to change your path when you went up to the Abidan. Your understanding of your path would certainly change. But the Way can be integrated into what you already do.
Does Lindon actually need his hunger madra arm to use the Consume technique?
Yes, he does. That's sort of how his body and soul work now.
At what level can a royal madra user transfer their power?
That is sort of a weird question to answer because there is really only one line that does that and its the royal line. So, at what level? I mean, they are all Monarchs kind of by default. In order to design a system like that you'd probably have to be a Monarch. I suspect you could do it if you had Sages cooperating, but it would be difficult.
Are there any people on Cradle who don't cycle at all or is it as natural as breathing?
You can be born with madra and not ever cycle or develop it.They can sort of feel their spirits, even without training, so it requires a degree of deliberate or culturally enforced ignorance to never do anything with it, but there are definitely isolated locations where they don’t learn to cycle and therefore don’t quite advance or use real techniques.
Is Reigan Shen a furry?
I mean, he’s an animal in human form, so I guess technically...
All Yerin needs is the house Sophara got to put the team in so she can teleport them to wherever she wants to go. Would that work? It's essentially what Lil Blue does when she's inside Lindon's void key.
Unfortunately it can’t work with the outlined rules of spatial travel, or (for instance) Charity would have tucked Lindon inside a special void key before teleporting directly to Sky’s Edge.
How does it work for Lil Blue while she's inside Lindon's void key? Is she outside it when he travels with Charity or is she exempt from the rule?
Spirits and living humans “weigh” differently, and even among spirits at her state of existence, Little Blue is particularly “light.”
A regular undeveloped Riverseed would “weigh” virtually nothing.
When Ozriel said Cradle had 600 billion souls, was that all humans or does that include sacred beasts/trees?
Unclear.
Would it be easier for Lindon to veil his unused core? Possible to hide it from others perception completely?
Yes, people have to scan more closely to detect his second core even when he's not veiling it. Blackflame is easier to detect than pure madra, and a core that's in use is easier to detect than one that isn't.
Do sacred beasts have "physical" cores like dreadbeasts, or are they like sacred artists' cores?
Dreadbeasts have their spirits all mangled up with their bodies, so they’re weird. Sacred beasts have spirits like humans do.
What makes Jai Chen's madra pink?
Love.
