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The Rithmatist
The Rithmatist - Sanderson
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SPOILERS!!!!
So, I was totally right about the odd timing of Joel's dad's death. I absolutely think that there was foul play involved and that it had something to do with Rithmatics. I also believe that Joel would have been chosen as a Rithmatist. I think he will become one anyway. I mean, he didn't even go through the inception chamber. Also, I think that Nalizar is trying to find the attacker and figure out what is going on. I don't think that he is the person behind the attacks, but I think he could have incidentally led the miscreant to the school...Or that he had learned about the plot before he arrived. I still think the Master is a god-type figure. it seems to be a religion. I don't think that eliminates the possibility of him being a person as well, though.
Since the story is taking place in the early 1900s and real places and people of the world are mentioned, I think it is taking place in an alternate universe/reality. There's no reason to think that the United Isles was ever a continent like the one that we live on. I get a steam punk feel from the technology. It's not that they haven't made progress, just that their society progressed in a different way than ours did.
I'd like to find out how Joel's dad really died and what his research is about. I'm still intrigued by the idea of Rithmatists existing in the first place. It seems to have started about 300 years before the current time, but we haven't learned how (practically) or why. I don't think the wild chalklings in Nebrask were around then. And I can't help but wonder why that particular "super power" was chosen. Why chalk? And why drawings that can protect or come to life?
It definitely felt like not only was he screwed by taking the test at the wrong time, but he didn't even get the full test, and that smells fishy to me, like they knew he would for sure be a Rithmatist. I'm thinking the Master could have been the one who made the chalkings at the Tower on Nebrask. And yes, I do think it is a God, but at the same time I get the feeling he/she/it will be personified sometime soon.
I suspect the inspector. There's just something about him.
So based on the way things are set up, I predict that Joel and Melody will team up together and become an awesome Rithmatist together. Maybe Joel will watch the opponents and tell her what to draw? Personally, I'd rather see this than Joel being some sort of super Rithmatist chosen one, though that way seems more likely. I'd much rather the super duo of Joe and Melody!
For some reason I still think that the continent was all one before, if only because of the names of each isle.
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