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On a scale of baby snow bunny to eldritch-horror who is scarier when fully equipped. Simon with the mask and cloak or Lindon with his goldsign and his wriggly arm?
I'd say Lindon when he gets going is basically a 6/horror. He's kind of a rough-looking guy anyway, and he gets the dark aura of the Burning Cloak, demonic eyes, a skeletal arm, and a big, hulking, burning turtle.
If all of your protagonists had to take the SAT's and the GRE's, who would score the best? Who would score the lowest?
For everyone on his list, we have to assume that they don't get questions that are impossible for them to answer. Like questions relating to Earth's literature or technology.
Yerin would score the worst, as she's illiterate and would have no idea what to do with the tests.
Simon would be second-worst. His parents only cared about his education until the events of the HoB prologue, when he was eight years old. After that, the only math skill he exercised was counting, and he rarely wrote anything besides his name.
Calder is next up. He received a noble education, thanks to his mother, but not early in life. He would score better in math than in English (assuming we translated the fictional Imperial language he actually speaks into English), and his scores would be decent in both categories.
Leah would do better than Calder, but not much better. She's extremely well-educated, but to the limits of her time period and world.
Lindon's education is more suited to standardized tests; he actually learned math and linguistics (obviously he's not speaking English, as none of these characters are) from textbooks, and while his scientific education is either not applicable to our tests or is downright wrong even by Cradle standards, his mathematical and language skills are solid.
Shera would do the best. Gardeners got a great education and she has a well-trained memory and a precise mind. She would score higher than any of my other protagonists.
...if she could be bothered to finish the test.
Any plans to release more short stories set in the Travelers Gate universe?
Plans, yes! But I always end up delaying those plans for another book...
Will you directly deal with the Abidan in your other series?
In Elder Empire, yes. In Traveler's Gate? ...maybe.
You should definitely address romance in your books. ;)
Shshshshshshshshsssssssshhhhh. Hush now.
I need an awkward Will protagonist date in my life.
Jk, I know you’re right, and it’s going in. I have to practice to learn how to use it effectively, and the only way I practice is through LIVE-FIRE EXERCISE. Everything that happens to Lindon and/or Simon results in awkwardness.
"Lindon: So uh...you like swords, right Yerin?" "Simon: I like my eyes and having both of them."
^ Thats now my favorite. I’m going to try and work that in.
So, I recently started watching Bleach. It's a popular anime with 300+ episodes that started airing in 2004.
I couldn't help but notice similarities between Simon (The protagonist in Will Wight's Traveler's Gate) and Ichigo (The protagonist in Bleach):
Ichigo is an adolescent boy who uses a ridiculously big sword. Just like Simon.
Ichigo has a mask that when worn, allows him to get stronger. The main upgrade is his speed. Just like Simon.
Ichigo gets chains around his arms when he uses his maximum power. Just like Simon.
Ichigo has a small, talking stuffed animal doll. Just like Simon.
When Ichigo uses his mask, he risks losing a control and going "mad". Just like Simon.
Ichigo's large sword comes from a dark, brooding, powerful man who's now stuck in his "world". More similarities.
There are even similarities between Ichigo's personality and Simon's...
The fact that Bleach has been running for years before Traveler's Gate was released, and Will Wight seems to be a fan of Anime makes this seem like more than just a series of coincidences.
Here's a link to pictures of Ichigo and other Bleach characters : https://www.wallpaperflare.com/anime-bleach-kurosaki-ichigo-orange-hair-chains-sword-anime-boys-wallpaper-tssqn
Perhaps there's more to this than I'm aware of, so I'd like someone - Will, maybe? - to clear this up, because watching Bleach is starting to unnerve me.
So I love Bleach, but it didn’t actually have any influence on Simon’s design.
Obviously I’m going for a very anime aesthetic, hence the giant swords, but I described them to my artist as Final Fantasy swords rather than Bleach swords. The chains and doll and mask don’t come from Bleach at all.
Chains: I just needed a visual indicator of the increasing influence of the Territory and thought chains would be cool.
Doll: I wanted a prop to show that Kai was crazy, and I thought talking to dolls was a cool way to do that, and then I thought it would be funny if he WASN’T crazy and the dolls actually talked. Plus Simon is alone a lot and needed someone to trade dialogue with, so that’s where that came from.
Mask: I didn’t intend to give Simon a mask power-up, but Malachi had a mask that he would have dropped when he died, and I thought it would be logical if Simon picked it up. Then I was like “Hey, I wonder what would happen if Valinhall took this in like they’ve taken so many other things?” And thus the mask was born.
Bleach did have one major influence on my writing: the Abidan organization that oversees the multiverse was essentially the Gotei 13 in its first iteration. The fact that the Judges have long flowing white mantles of energy now is a nod to the haori of the Bleach Captains.
Wen Broly Dadmon?
I'm going to call it The Dadmon Chronicles.
If Lindon was a character in overwatch, what would his ultimate be? What would Simons be
Lindon's: Void Dragon's Dance. His passive in Blackflame form would leave little black flames around the battlefield as he uses his abilities, kind of like Reaper's old passive. His ult would detonate all of those flames in a massive nova. Simon's: Mask of Valinhall. Gives him armor and shield and greatly increases move speed and attack damage for the duration. If he doesn't have some sort of mobility skill in his kit, like a double jump or a dash or something, he gets one during his ult.
Have you considered getting a tiny bell to go with your Eithan scissors so that you can ring it whenever Yerin uses the Endless Sword?
Obviously I have used that expression a lot, "ring like a bell." People are pointing it out because the Traveler's Gate got rerecorded and they're hearing Travis say it, and it's ringing bells from Cradle. Yes, I do use that phrase a lot, probably too much. I mostly use it in Traveler's Gate to describe the sound of steel on steel because it's unbreakable Tartarus Steel hitting unbreakable Tartarus Steel so I was going "What's a relatable way to describe that? Bells." And then I was going "Okay, when we have Yerin's Endless Sword, it's got to make a certain sound," then I was like "Ah, yeah, rang like a bell." Was the result that I have two series where everything rings like a bell. And then we have Little Blue, who speaks entirely in bell and chime sounds.
What is the magic system of Traveler's Gate like in its native state, if the Way wasn't so thin and there were no fragmented Iterations attached to it? Would it serve no function?
I have some notes to this effect, but I’m afraid to lock myself into something by answering this question. Suffice it to say that I would like to explore this in the future.
And could a pocket world like Ghostwater be used like a territory in TG
Why yes, yes it could.
So if Simon managed to ascend, would he become a Wolf? And how far away is he in terms of power from the weakest of the wolves?
I'm going to guess LIGHT YEARS away from ascending. Remember that the Emperor could smite all the incarnations at once, and unless he was secretly an ascended being, it would seem that Simon is way way behind even that. So unless he masters valinhall and becomes the next traveler.. He's got a ways to go.
Yeah, the Emperor has enough power to ascend past his world. The only reason he hasn't is because he's in Asylum, which is effectively a prison.We haven't seen anyone in Traveler's Gate strong enough to do that. But if Simon DID get to ascend, then he would end up as a Wolf, yeah.
Would the emperor have ascended and ditched his planet had he been able to or would his sense of duty have kept him there?
He wouldn't have left on his own. He may have tried to take a team into the Way, or tried to cast the Elders out.
What's the coolest Valinhall power you didn't get to show in the trilogy?
I wonder what Simon what do if he could re do it?
If he kept his current memories? Tell Leah what was about to happen and get her to stop it, murder Cormac with a knife, and then head to Valinhall.
He would still go to Kai? Not Indirial?
No, he’d head to Kai and then negotiate with the doll.
What would the Lirial energy crystal do when bonded to Valinhall?
I don't understand what you mean by the Lirial energy crystal. If you mean the one that stores a Lirial Traveler's energy, then nothing. That could not be tied to Valinhall because it isn't a weapon, just like the seed of the Hanging Tree couldn't be.
Travelers Gate Trilogy has been my personal favorite fantasy series since i read it. And Cradle is easily one of my favorites of all time (if the books length was as long as other epic fantasy series like WoT, Malazan or Stormlight Archives i bet it easily rivals them .. in fact i feel Cradle is just as epic for me).Thank you for bringing life to series i didn't i needed but i did. Which also coincidentally the reason why life is alot more bearable to live(given IRL is brutal)Btw Travelers Gate and Cradle related question if you don't mind me asking.1. If Simon goes ascension route. Is Caela eligible as his future presence ? How about the Eldest ?2. Why did Eithan decide to pick pure madra path ?
Well, we can agree on at least one thing: real life is best escaped whenever possible. I'm glad you enjoy the books!1.) Yeah, Caela could potentially become his Presence if he ascended.2.) It's a spoooooky myyyyyysteeeerrrryyyyy....
In how much detail have you outlined the future of the cradle series, and possibly travellers gate series if that is to continue?
Exactly how tough is Tartarus steel? Is it literally unbreakable, or is it just simply vastly tougher than other mundane metals that Amalgam can produce?
It’s conceptually unbreakable. You have to break that supernatural property of the steel first if you want to physically break it.
How fixed is time in the Willverse? Seems there's an emphasis on fate.
Okay, actually, good question. So, time, in the multiverse, is kind of fixed; but it's flexible. So, there is one central time that the Way maintains, it keeps time from being 'too' relative. Which I'm not going into that; but it keeps time sort of relevant to one another, but worlds swing one way or the other. So, it is...
Will is heavily inspired by Saya No Uta.
... No, I am not. (...) Anyway, but time, in the different worlds, flex, a large way, but if you flex to one way either something else has to flex the other way or you yourself would have to go on a cycle. Typically if you're in a world, that is doing that, you don't notice; because you're not paying attention to the time of other worlds, right? So, one of the people that do notice are Amalgam. So the Territories have different relationships to time, but that changes over long spans of time. The Territories flex and change and their relationship to Amalgam. So one Territory might have certain time dilation now, and then it change gradually.
1) You said each world had its own magic system. Does Amalgam have its own system seperate from the territories or is that all it had from the beginning?
2) Some iterations have galactic colonies. Are there aliens in the Willverse?
1.) Amalgam's magic system is its unique property that allows it to collect and draw power from Territories.
2.) There is alien life, but the only sentient non-human life was either once human or gained sentience from humanity in some way.
The Elders, for instance, were never human, but they gained the ability to interact with the world in a way we recognize as intelligent from humanity.
