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Lil' Blue
Is the age slowing an order of magnitude as you advance or is there xnumber of years added for each stage?
Will Wight
For the Lord realm, your body is re-forged in stronger soulfire each time you advance, so your body is made more like it was in your prime. If you were younger than your prime, you would look older, and older people look younger. Then, from there on, you age more slowly. It gets stronger each time you advance, but it only happens when you advance, so basically Jai Daishou's only hope of living significantly longer would have been to hit Overlord. Which he accepted that he couldn't do.
Polycore
Hey Will, we were wondering how would Lindon's Iron body stack against Bai Rou's madra? and can you tell how a Highgold Lindon (how he will be in the future when he reaches that stage) would fare against him?
Will Wight
Lindon's Iron body would help against Bai Rou, but not entirely, because Bai Rou's madra has a dream component that would attack the mind. It would be difficult for Lindon to defend himself, so he would have to rely on overwhelming attack. Which would be possible, thanks to Blackflame, which Bai Rou can't do very much about. Except that Bai Rou is a Truegold in Skysworn armor, so he would be able to defend himself, counter, and beat Lindon with his counterattack. As for how Lindon will fare at higher advancement, you'll just have to wait for Ghostwater, won't you?
Questioner
Would the body of a sacred artist over the iron stage retain it's heightened abilities if the artist core was cracked/permanently damaged.
Will Wight
In most cases, yes. Even if you're spiritually injured, your Iron body still functions. It's a physical change in your body. But there are Iron bodies, like Lindon's, that require madra. In that case, you wouldn't see much benefit from it. Indeed, it might make your spiritual injuries even worse.
Questioner
Has anybody on Cradle every left their world to go to the moon or another planet?
Will Wight
Yes. Minor spoiler alert: I'd like to go into more detail, but I'd also like to explore this in the main series, so I'm going to leave it at that.
manty05
Is it possible to develop a veil like technique that blocks the Arelius senses.
Will Wight
Yes, but it would be difficult, given that Arelius senses pick up physical sensory information, not spiritual. But you could develop a technique that would do it, and carry a construct around that prevented them from spying on you. Either it could scramble the particular threads of madra they’re using, or it could generate a shadow or cloud or whatever that blocked them from picking up anything from within it.
It would be relatively easier to script a room or container to block them out, but you’d still need to know how.
AJQuestioner
The myth that Lindon read when he was still back in Sacred Valley discussed true badges. Can we expect to hear any more about true badges or are they no longer part of the story?
Will Wight
Some of what Lindon found were real, and others were myths.
Questioner
What is Yerin’s favorite color?
If Yerin fought against Shera, who would win?
Will Wight
1.) If you asked her that, she would have no idea what to say. But it's lavender.
2.) In a straight-up fight? Yerin. But if they were given orders to find and kill one another, probably Shera.
The Last Reader
at what point in advancement do you become immortal (Herald,Monarch, Abidan)?
Will Wight
Archlords live a really long time, and Heralds are essentially ageless.
Terrible
Will Yerin end up following the desires of the Bleeding Phoenix if it wakes up again
Will Wight
Maybe!
Questioner
If there were movies/tv series about cradle, who would play the characters?
Will Wight
I don't have knowledge of actors to say that... so... Danny DeVito for all roles. Every role. I can easily see him as Lindon. I could see him as Eithan, in a long blonde wig. I could easily see that. And then Yerin, you could just stick aluminum foil like arms to his back - I could see Danny DeVito doing that. And then... I would say him as the voice of Orthos, but actually I think probably he'd just sort of walk around on all fours with a black shell on his back and I think that's just... that's Orthos, so... Danny DeVito, all characters.
Questioner
What is the most pleasant and painless iron body type to develop?
Will Wight
The Drifting Iron Body. It involves undergoing a process to weaken gravity's hold on the body, making you lighter. The actual transformation process involves being woven into a silken cocoon made by refiners from plants that grow among the clouds. It feels like being suspended among hundreds of pillows for several hours a day over many weeks.
Questioner
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-Is the Sword Sage Really Dead? From what we have seen over the course of Ghost Water sages are really fucking strong and sturdy, so I don't think some poison and a couple of low golds could kill him.
--Yerin absorbed his remnant. He might need to still use that if he is alive.
---The difficulty of a bunch of jades managing to off the sage is probably due to a combination of godbeast crypt related issues and the lack of clear definitions of power levels at the time of writing
Will Wight
That’s a perfectly reasonable assumption. However! This is one of the few times in which I actually did intend him to be absurdly stronger than the Jades and still die. There is a reason, and it was planned from the very beginning. Many times I can’t say that, but I can this time!
Lil' Blue
I really think we need an extract from Dross's Patreon.
Will Wight
I’m not writing erotic fanfiction of my own or anybody else’s work, BUT...writing “erotic” fanfiction the way DROSS would view it...that’s pretty tempting.
Questioner
Are scripts some form of universal language or just Cradle oriented? Are there similar things in Amalgam or Asylum?
Will Wight
Scripting is unique to Cradle, but other worlds have similar systems for guiding, shaping, or controlling their native energy.
Questioner
What sort of an Army from Cradle would it take to conquer our world?
Will Wight
One Herald. One Herald because anything we could do to him he would be immune to. He would be able to affect large swaths of terrain at the same time. You couldn't nuke him, you couldn't do anything. There's no amount of physical force that would work. He can affect us, we can't affect him, that's it.
madbookworm
Titans bone, sacred pool, and the flame you just answered about, is there a collective term for that?
Will Wight
There will be, but I haven't made it up yet.
Questioner
How many books planned for cradle? Any sequels intentions?
Will Wight
12 books planned, though that number isn’t set in stone. As for sequels, it very much depends on where the story is at the end! And how much interest there is in a sequel.
mido_sama
In soulsmith we saw Eithan giving Lindon madraso why not give the ability to Lindon ... like what if Eithan saw Dross and thought Lindon could handle the family ability and poor madra into him and to push his pure core to true god as well. Man that'd make Dross into BIG BROTHER
mido_sama
Will may have give that answer before skysworn ... because both Jai Chen and the underload gained the ability after absorbing Eithan's madra.
Will Wight
Just noticed this, so I'm popping in: Jai Chen and Jai Daishou got the ability temporarily by draining power from Eithan. They didn't gain it permanently. It's not their bloodline power now.
DruidDeadnettle
How temporary are we talking? Would it wear off in hours? Days? Years? I got the impression that it had become a permanent part of her but that she had to actively expend Madra to make it work.
Will Wight
Her madra has permanently changed, but her bloodline hasn’t. And at the point where Jai Chen leaves, she still hasn’t stabilized her madra yet, so it hasn’t settled into its final composition.
This isn’t even its final form, if you will.
Questioner
Who does all of the farming in Cradle? In a society so focused on martial martial abilities. Who would waste time on farming? We know the population of Cradle is many times greater then Earth. So tens of billion of people need to eat. The only real solution I could think of is if there are Paths that happen to both greatly help agriculture and has combat potential. Or as we saw in book two slavery.
Will Wight
There are Paths that are used for agriculture and irrigation, they're just usually low-key. There's a (very) brief reference in Blackflame to the Redflower family, who are in charge of feeding the Empire. By law, they are neutral in every conflict, and anybody who starts a fight with them or tries to pressure them will soon regret it.
