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Questioner (paraphrased)

 What does Little Blue do when she is in Lindon’s void key?

Will Wight (paraphrased)

She does a lot of things! She climbs around on all of Lindon;s stuff. She plays with her junk that she views as toys. Picture paperclips and you're close, but Cradle doesn't have paperclips. She gets bored, but honestly she doesn't stay in the void key as much as it sounds. I don't cover Lindon during his down time, and she is always out during downtime. 

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Questioner

Would it be possible to bond Emriss like Yerin did the Sword Sage?

Will Wight

Yes, technically. If she allowed you to, because you're not more powerful than Emriss. She's maximum power. So, yeah if she let you, you could adopt Emriss as a Remnant. That'd be a lot more like her adopting you though. Actually no, I guess it wouldn't be possible. Maybe, it could be if she let it happen. Could be. Technically possible, could be, and that is even if she allowed it. 

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What would have happened if Suriel’s marble had fallen into the cracks in Ghostwater, which I believe lead into the void?

Will Wight

It would have not fallen into the cracks. So if he had dropped it in there, it would have avoided the cracks. If he really intentionally threw it into the void, it would have come back. It is conceptually linked to Lindon, so he cannot lose it under any circumstances barring the intervention of a truly powerful individual. If the Mad King wants to take this marble he's gonna get it, but that would be beneath him. I don't know why he'd want that. It'd be a weird thing for him to do, just descend and rob some random dude instead of just annihilating everything.

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Who creates Iterations?  Can the Cradle world be duplicated?

Will Wight

Ok, that's a good question.  Can the Cradle world be duplicated?  In the sense that technically it could I guess...  Like in the sense that if you shuffled a deck of cards technically you could get the same order.  You almost certainly will not, but technically it is a possibility.  Now, all the people living there would not be there; they would be completely different people.  You could get a world that is very very similar.  There is not anything like parallel dimensions.  That's not a thing.  At least not as a primary universal mechanic.  There might be some Iterations that have some version of that.

And who created new Iterations?  Iterations are born as a natural part of the life cycle that Ozriel and Makiel and them are always talking about.  So as an Iteration gets closer to it's intended life span, as fate runs out and it starts to die, it splits up into fragments, which are basically like Territories from Traveler's Gate, and they float around in the void, and they eventually connect to one another based on common threads and ideas and concepts.  And then they fuse and they become the seed of a new Iteration, which over time gathers population, and becomes a new Iteration.  And the Abidan kind of, they are like gardeners, they kind of maintain that process.  So that is the idea.

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Ok, so Travis has asked, how long until I add some sort of lyrics that must be sung, just so that he knows how to prepare and go into vocal training.

Will Wight

I would say, well, I don't want to spoil anything, but book nine is entirely in limerick form, it's just one limerick after another.  It's not even like an epic bardic saga, it's just a limerick, just a series of limericks.  So you need to be prepared to do those.  Also, a lot of them need to be delivered in Irish accent.  Little known fact, Ireland exists in Cradle.  It's Ireland.  Just straight Ireland.  And you have to recite limericks in an Irish accent.  As authentic as possible.  So good luck.

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Are the Akura Path of Seven Pages unique? Is there only one "Book of Eternal Night" as long Mercy is alive none can walk her Path?

Will Wight

In that particular case, yes, there is only one book of Eternal Night and as long as Mercy is alive there will be nothing else.In the case of other books of seven pages, I think most of them are unique. I don't think all of them are. If I had to answer off the top of my head...Which I do because that is the whole premise, I believe that there are some of them that are not unique. Some of them are sort of mass produced…Like, not really but this is like two or three copies.

Questioner

Has Fury or Charity penned a book of seven pages?

Will Wight

No. No they have not. So what Charity did was Charity developed her book with her grandmother so - With Malice. Malice had started had this dream shadow book and she and Charity finished it together but once Charity started showing signs of ascending to sage, they finished the rest of it together. So it was an unfinished booked and that was true in a lot of like, there was a lot of things, a lot of these books Malice didn't do herself. So the first person who carried the book or the first person who helped her make it or whatever was the person who helped her finish it.

Questioner

Are there new books of Seven Pages being written?

Will Wight

Not anymore. Not really. They typically have more books than they have people capable of using the books so there’s really not a point in developing more.

 

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What idea usually comes first for you? Magic, character, story?

Will Wight

Well, it's not story, I'll tell you that. What I normally do is I have notebooks on my phone and computer, note files. And whenever I have an idea, for whatever reason, I just write it down. So I have places to write those down and when I'm coming up with a new thing I just go through my thousands of ideas and pick the ones that I think are appropriate. So I'm generally organized, but I'm not a super organized person, so a lot of times I'll just find something in the wrong place and I'll think of it. But typically when I'm looking for new ideas, when I'm actively going out and seeking - like "I need a new idea here," let's say what I'm like if I'm going to develop a new series. I would look at the world and magic system first, just because that's what interests me. I go, "What's the concept? What's the high concept? What's the idea?" that hooks me, hooks my imagination. So someone asked me earlier about a Pioneer world story and that concept interests me. So that idea of someone being a magical terraforming group, that sounds really cool. I actually fleshed out an idea this past week, like what would magical terraforming look like, in real life, like you had to go to Mars and what spells would you need and how would you do it with magic instead of how people actually plan to do it with real technology. And that was a lot of fun. I enjoyed that. So that was a concept that definitely interested me.

(game: crits and shooting fire guys) 

Imagine you create gravity or magnetism in your terraforming. That is true, and I had that under the domain of earth magic. And I was thinking, as long as you have the magical ability to turn energy into matter and matter into energy, you can solve any problem with magic. Even if you're restricted on what types of matter you can create, from what types of energy, that's basically the only ability it takes and that's what magic often is, is it's just you turn energy into some kind of matter. So that'd be cool. 

Footnote: Italics: Best guess
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If Kelsa had gotten the same opportunities as Lindon, would she have risen even more quickly?

Will Wight

No.  No she would not have.  So she, while being more talented, and a genuinely cool person, is not as resolved or determined as Lindon would be, and would not have set out to save Sacred Valley.  If she had that knowledge and the exact same opportunities that Lindon did she would have stayed in Sacred Valley and tried to persuade everyone else to leave.  So, that is how she would have solved that problem; she would not have gone out and advanced.  If she did do exactly what Lindon did, she would have stuck with the things he has stuck with and would have advanced differently.  And perhaps more efficiently, but it wouldn't have gotten her as far as Lindon has gotten.

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Have you ever thought about doing a Sci FI series, what would it look like?

Will Wight

No, I have not.  Here's why.  I believe every story is better with magic.  So if I did a sci-fi series, it would be a magic series set in space.  I've considered doing that.  Like I said early, I have considered doing magic terraforming.  That's basically a fantasy sci-fi.  So, if I did do a sci-fi series, it would look a lot like Red Rising.  And Pierce Brown already did that better than me.