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Questioner

Did corruption exist before the original seven ascended?

Will Wight

Oh yeah. Corruption absolutely existed before the original seven ascended. Corruption is kind of how the multiverse works. So, by default, it's just sort of decay in reality. Therefore only a few Iterations remain active at any one time. Or inhabitable, I guess should say. Until the Abidan manage and garden them and then they can make a lot more stable and a lot more exist. And a lot more stick to their original Fate and destiny.

Questioner

Would you say that the original seven were on par with Ozmanthus?

Will Wight

No. Some of them were, but they were kind of almost different. The scenario in which they ascended was different, so they would have had a harder time gaining power after ascending from Cradle than Ozmanthus did. He had the advantage of the infrastructure that they had put in place. That was an advantage Ozriel had over the first-generation Court of Seven.

Questioner

Do Travelers have a special sense like Sages do since they manipulate space?

Will Wight

No. They do not. Valin was a special case in that sense.

Well, let me be clear. When Travelers form a connection to their Territory, they can sense that connection and a lot of the abilities they get from that Territory. So the ability to stretch themselves out and affect space, you might say that that is a special sense. So, in a sense, they have a sense, if that makes sense.

Questioner

Did Valin have authority?

Will Wight

Yeah, to some degree. I don't know how to say without spoiling anything what kind of authority he had or what level. It was certainly not to the level of what a true Sage would have, and if you're asking me about a matchup between Valin and Lindon or Valin and Yerin, they would take him apart like a lego house.

But at the same time, he did have enough authority to escape his world and sort of manipulate the fabric of Valinhall and get through the Way. So, to some degree, even though it was a crude, half-formed thing, yeah, he had some authority over some things.

Questioner

What are the chances of another DragonCon meetup next year?

Will Wight

Well I enjoyed DragonCon very much and the chances of another meet up next year (2022) are high. Those are some high chances. The fan meet up was really the highlight of my DragonCon trip. It was a lot of fun. It still takes a lot out of me. It was really cool to meet people, put some faces to names even though I'm going to forget all your names by next year including probably my own. So I really enjoyed that and I really enjoyed getting to meet some people I that I only met online. I really enjoyed being able to talk about some things I don't normally get to talk about and some things I get to, that just come across as more genuine in person I guess. So if you couldn't make it this year try to make it next year it will be great.

Questioner

As we know Monarchs are pretty much immortal however do they age to a certain age before their age stops  completely?

Will Wight

Yeah! The whole idea behind advancing to Herald and then to Monarch is sorta their bodies get perfected in a way. So the only reason Sha Miara didn't immediately age up was just because her inheritance works differently. That's all. A normal advancement would be, it would age them forwards or backwards as necessary and their body would stabilize.

Questioner

Who is your favourite Bleach side character?

Will Wight

Favourite Bleach character...that's hard for me to say. It used to be Hitsugaya, the Ice-Dragon Captain, but overtime I think that has faded. I really like the interaction between the Captains more than I like any one of them. Chad is the only true correct answer. He is truly the most Chad character.

Questioner

Did you always plan on having Akura Grace die or was her death come up later?

Will Wight

Eh, I mean a little of both. Like I said earlier I set characters up so that I can use them however I need to. So I wanted to do something with Akura Grace pretty clearly. I mean when I was describing her and she's one of the two people besides Pride in the beginning of Uncrowned that gets any of the spotlight. Clearly I was setting her up for something right? But it was always, haha feels mean, but it was always something tragic. It was going to be, either she was killed or left behind or betrayed the group or something. You know. Something bad was going to happen and when I needed someone to die at the end of Wintersteel I was like 'Ah we go'. So there it is. She always... never headed for a good end. Yep.

Questioner

What path would Deadpool be on?

Will Wight

I don't know. Deadpool kinda, his set of powers is kinda like, just kinda, a sorta general sacred artist. So I don't know what kind of madra he would have or what he practiced. I feel like saying something memey about Ryan Reynolds but I don't know what that would be exactly. 

(comes back to question later)

So, what path would Deadpool be on?  He feels like a guy who just kinda has an iron body, and the maybe is an Underlord or something?  Yeah, I don't know.

Questioner

Is void aura a thing?

Will Wight

No void aura is not a thing. There is no elemental attachment to aura in cradle's energy system.

Questioner

Does Dross really sleep? Or did Dross really sleep.

Will Wight

Dross sorta rests. He doesn't, isn't going all the time. He doesn't exactly sleep. No but he does rest and kinda go dormant for a time.

Questioner

Ichigo is so cool and awesome! Why don't you like him?

Will Wight

Alright, so for those who don't know Ichigo is the Japanese word for strawberries so he is asking why I don't like male strawberries and the answer is  I just prefer female strawberries. So it's not really a prejudice thing it's just a personal preference  and I think they taste a little better that's all.

So, there is one other possible meaning to that question. So, Ichigo is also the name of the protagonist of 'Bleach'. Probably isn't what he meant and probably asking about my strawberries preferences. But the protagonist of Bleach is fine. I don't dislike him. I don't have problems with him. The only really reason I don't like him as much is  because I feel like the story is less interesting with him around. When he isn't around they tend to go into  a lot of side characters who tends to be just way cooler. So we get to explore all the Captains in The Gotei 13 organization. That's just a lot more interesting to me and that only happens when Ichigo isn't around. So not a big fan of Ichigo  being in spotlight. I don't dislike him as a character or anything.                                                                                                                                                                                       

So I don't dislike him but funfact, the Abidan Court was in its original iteration modeled off the Captains of Bleach, so that's why they have Mantles. That's a Captain Haori reference. It changed significantly as I developed that organization but that was the original inspiration as I was taking kind of taking...I would say Captains from 'Bleach' and then I guess sort of Forsaken from the 'Wheel Of Time' kind of thing. That makes sound them more evil than I think of them but that's sort of the organization I was going for when I initially thought of Abidan. So that actually comes from bleach and that's how much more compelling I think the side characters are in bleach than the main character.

Questioner

What happened to Mu Enkai?

Will Wight

Well, if you will read the prologue to Ghostwater I think that's very clear that Mu Enkai fought Lindon and lost. And then he used that loss to motivate himself and fuel his rise. It was a meteoric rise likes to which has never  been seen on cradle before, it makes Lindon look like nothing and he became a Monarch in the matter of days. He immediately ascended, joined the Abidan and became the 9th Judge. I think that's obvious...I thought I had implied all that in Ghostwater prologue so it's not even a spoiler.

hosoke

When does Akura Shira become the 9th judge

Will Wight

*look of disappointment towards camera*

Cacob53

Could Ethan have been killed on cradle?

Will Wight

No. Eithan could not have been killed on Cradle. He could have allowed the other people to be killed. That definitely could have happened.

officer340

Is Eithan in the next book? Or too spoilery?

Will Wight

Eithan is in the next book. That’s all I can say.

duke_shadowfall

Did Eithan know his own identity the entire time? Or did he only realize after the marble cracked??

Will Wight

Yes, he did. There were some things that he had sealed from himself; memories and abilities that he had sealed away but he was aware of his identity.

kwwaites

How could Eithan claim to be under 35 for the uncrowned tourney?

Will Wight

There’s two ways that could’ve happened with information that is already presented in Reaper. The Origin Shroud if its powerful enough to deceive the Mad King and Ozriel then it’s powerful enough to deceive people on Cradle, right? And then Eithan had to incarnate into a real mortal body. This wasn’t like a fake thing where he was disguising himself he had to really be mortal. He could easily have actually been under 35. Those 2 solutions are both possible.

Questioner

How are Cassias and the other Arelius family leaders going to respond now that they have seen or heard of Ethan at the end of Reaper?

Will Wight

You will get to see that in the next book. I suppose technically that’s a Dreadgod spoiler. I have already outlined that scene and I do know the answer but it’s in Dreadgod.

PLangdon84

How does the hollow domain not disrupt enforcer techniques? Didn’t it disrupt Daji’s and Sophara’s in Wintersteel?

From Wintersteel, battle report against brother Aekin:

Lindon dashes up with the Soul Cloak, carrying the Hollow Domain in an orb around him. When he gets close enough, even Aekin’s Enforcer technique falters.

Will Wight

Yeah, it’s a lack of specificity in my writing. Sorry about that.

I intended it to take a lot more power to wipe out Enforcer techniques because they’re internal. Someone of approximately equal power to Lindon would have an easier time keeping their Enforcer technique active inside the Domain, but it still comes down to Lindon’s power against theirs.

I meant the scene with Brother Aekin to be an example illustrating Lindon pushing the Domain hard, which is why “even” his Enforcer technique fails, and with Yerin is a scenario where he’s just keeping it on at default strength so Enforcer techniques aren’t wiped out. (Unless they were significantly weaker than Lindon.)

With Aekin specifically, that technique does indeed have an external component as some people have pointed out. That part is true, but I still should have clarified.

But I phrased that inaccurately in this scene. My bad. 

magi1201

What about the barrier of body? Should that keep internal enforcement running?

Will Wight

That’s what makes it harder, but of course internal madra resistance is not impenetrable, or you could never hurt anyone directly with a Striker technique.