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Favorite Magic System?
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Sep 23, 2014 11:37AM
Mr. Sanderson has said that his favorite part of writing is creating the magic systems- and rightly so. He's got some amazing ideas, they're fully fleshed out, and they hold up under scrutiny. What's your favorite of his magic systems? Mine is Allomancy. I used to think it would be Awakening, but then I realized how hard it must be, since you have to know exactly what words to use and not use. Allomancy is simple. Each metal does something specific, all you have to do is learn to use it properly.
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I was blown away at allomancy. It's what made me love fantasy and bs so much.
Allomancy is awesome. It's stupid how fangirls want to be witches, demigods or shadowhunters, Allomancers are 1000x more awesome.
I love all the metallurgy systems and how they work together! But I have a feeling that I'll be even more amazed at all the Knights Radiant's powers once more of the Stormlight Archive comes out!
Surgebinding and awakening.Surgebinding for the cool factor, and awakening I thought was quite unique and different from most stuff out there.
I am not sure if I can choose between surgebinding and allomancy. I may lean toward allomancy since it would work on other Cosmere planets since metal is everywhere but it takes a highstorm, which seem to exist only on Roshar, to create Stormlight.
So far for me it's Allomancy. I haven't seen anything else like it and the action sequences in the Mistborn trilogy are amazing. Even though the concept of metals having magic sounds simple, Sanderson makes it so detailed and complex! I'm not into Surgebinding as much yet and it's probably because we still don't know all that much about it. I'm looking forward to having more questions answered! I'm really curious about the history of the Spren.
Allomancy. Namely being a Mistborn not just a misting. I find Hemalurgy very intriguing, though!
When it comes to world building and such, I was definitely intrigued by the magic in Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell. It's only 50-ish pages, but the shades and the way they work are some pretty intense stuff.
Would have to be Surgebinding for me
love Allomancy but surgebining just has an epic feel to it :)
love Allomancy but surgebining just has an epic feel to it :)
Right now I am leaning toward surgebinding being my favorite magic system as well. Part of that may just be because there is still so much we don't know yet. We have only seen what a few of the Knights Radiant can do.
I love the way the different Dor magics work on Sel. Forgery is my favorite simply because of how much goes into the rewriting of the basic connections, but the way the Aons work is really neat :-)
BioChromatic Breath and it's quirks is very nice. I like that it is a finite resource and costs others and yourself. People torture and kill each other over the awakenings and breath. And the ability to invest the Breath into an object and to retrieve it after animation is awesome.
Definitely Surgebinding. I love its complexity and the fact that it is hard to wrap your head around it. Because I am in awe of it I love it.
I really liked the combination of allomancy and feruchemy (twinborns) in AOL. The possible combinations are mind blowing.
Sanderson's Allomancy and Feruchemy are fascinating and he did a great job with them in the Mistborn series. Personally, however, I must cast my vote for the Will & the Word magic system devised by David Eddings in the Belgariad and Malloreon series.
Magic system in Mistborn is my favorite. The combination of allomancy, ferruchemy and hemalurgy is a great system. They are all related to each other in some way. Since Sanderson is planning a mistborn space tech book in the future it will be more awesome than now.
Another vote for Mistborn, i think that, not only it's a very cool magic system but also BSanderson has taken the time to explain everything and make sure everything makes sense...
Just amazing...
Just amazing...
It has to be the systems in the Mistborn Series. Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy are very unique from any other system that I have seen. They are all related to each other in the series, but they different in their own right. Not only did he come up with a fantastically unique system, but he has three of them in the same story. They make sense and work!
Full Misborns are my fave magic users...but Stormlight Archive is the best magic system..and series.The Talent from Night Angel by Brent Weeks is my all time fave magic weilding series...hehe
I'm going to vote for Biochromatic Breath in Warbreaker. I like it not necessarily because I'd like to use it but for the ethical questions the use of breaths brings to the front. To have a lot of mystical power requires the sacrifice of others. But that sacrifice has to be willing you can't straight up take it (sure you can force it but that compounding the issue) and the time that person suffers afterward. So can you get someone to sacrifice themselves for you and what does it mean if you can? It's so dark I found it really interesting. I like that there's always an ethical cost to sandersons Magic.
BioChromatic Breathe would be really neat, but any Smedry powers out there?
Surgebinding and Metalurgy, specifically Feruchemy. Surgebinding is just so awesome. I mean, your eyes freaking glow when you use it (made me think of Avatar the Last Airbender but cooler). There's glowing mist coming off you, and the picture of it is just so perfect. Also, whenever the Words of Radiance are spoken, it's just SO INSANELY AWESOME. I mean, I get chills when the Words are spoken. I think Sanderson just really captures a sense of awe in Surgebinding.
I don't know, that's the fun part. I imagine a spren that's attracted to some amazing part of my character that I'm unaware of like an "awesomespren", lol. If I can't have my own spren, I'd really just like the opportunity to talk to a stick.
For me it's definitely surgebinding. I mean, Kaladin and Szeth FLEW together like a couple of awesome blue rockets.
Allomancy is really interesting. And I like BioChromatic Breath too.
The Metalic Arts and Sand mastery.They are the closest to my sense of cool.
I love the visuals and of surgebinding. However for cool factor I can't go past the parshendi voidbinding.
Definitely Surgebinding for me. I love that there are so many different expressions of it. Personally, I want to be an Elsecaller and Transform as a Soulcaster. My spren would be named Lyric.
The thing they do in The Emperor's Soul was interesting.
I'd have to say allomancy. Its not only really powerful but creative and cool! My favorite metal is probably either bendalloy or steel. It would be so cool to go and just push off of a coin and fly!
Surgebinding is awesome, easily the best magic system.
Gotta mention that I love Rithmatics and hope we get some snazzy new lines in Aztlantian. Cosmere? Forgery from the Emperor's Soul would be super fun, though I identify as a Dustbringer in 17th Shard RP's.
Ben wrote: "Surgebinding is awesome, easily the best magic system."Yeah, I agree. Definitely Surgebinding. Even the name is cool. Biochromatic breath is a close second.
Granted, I haven't read Rithmatics yet.
Adam wrote: "Mr. Sanderson has said that his favorite part of writing is creating the magic systems- and rightly so. He's got some amazing ideas, they're fully fleshed out, and they hold up under scrutiny. What..."Definitely, Allomancy as well! Surgebinding is my second favorite. Both are great, but you don't have the Surgebinder equivalent of a full Mistborn (at least that we know of), so in my opinion, Vin would kick asses in Roshar xD
Recently reread some Mistborn books. Early I said surgebinding was my favorite. Now I am all tangled up. I am leaning toward Allomancy.
Now I think about it, I am also intrigued by Hemalurgy. The idea of having to place metal spikes in specific places in a person’s body really adds a darker element to the Mistborn series. It’s part of what makes the Inquisitors so cool.
His most ingenious system is Feruchemy - such a clever idea. The most awesome system is Surgebinding - creates jawdropping set pieces. However, I want to be an Allomancer! The only caviat to that is if it turns out that in future SLA books it's possible to hold all ten surges at once then I want be that!!
Tough question... Allomancy is incredible, but I also love the Selish systems and their relationship with art. I’d love to learn all the theory behind the Forging process, learn how to design the stamps. Hemalurgy is also pretty interesting, though I’m not so sure if I’d want to learn how to perform it...
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Totally Rithmatics. He goes into so much detail with it! Soul stamps come in a close second. Still waiting for the Rithmatist in VR, but I’d be down for any Sanderson magic system in a virtual reality world.
i took the CANON BRANDON SANDERSON TEST for the orders of the knights radiant and am a willshaper
Kyle wrote: "BioChromatic Breathe would be really neat, but any Smedry powers out there?"
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS ME!!! Smedrys and oculators are the best.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS ME!!! Smedrys and oculators are the best.
I agree that Smedry talents, oculators, and technology are all incredibly unique. Though, I don't think that you could compare that to Alomancy, where coinshots and lurchers could destroy any lens.
I disagree, they'd be too fully invested to be moved.
have you read "Bands of Mourning?"
Matías wrote: "Adam wrote: "Mr. Sanderson has said that his favorite part of writing is creating the magic systems- and rightly so. He's got some amazing ideas, they're fully fleshed out, and they hold up under s..."
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