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    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #863 Copy

    lysanderslair

    Lindon mentioned the healing with the ironheart uses more madra. Is this more total madra to heal the same wound or more like Ironbody uses 5 mana points per second for 240 seconds. Ironheart uses 20 mara points per second for 4 seconds to heal same wound.

    Will Wight

    I'm not going to lie to you: it's been a long day, and my eyes kind of glaze over when I see numbers.

    The Bloodforged Iron body was really intended to fight intruders to the body, particularly poison, and it heals as kind of a secondary effect. In simple terms, the Iron Heart makes that secondary effect stronger.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #865 Copy

    Jazzy-Kandra

    How much Doom would Shuffles announce for you given your current condition?

    (Also, what flavors of icecream do Eithan, Yerin, Mercy, and Lindon prefer?)

    Will Wight

    Minimal. He would probably sniff around me until he determined that I don't have fish, repeat anything unfortunate that I said, and then go to sleep.

    Yerin: chocolate

    Mercy: double fudge brownie chunk

    Lindon: tutti frutti

    Eithan: your ice cream cone when you're not looking

    Jazzy-Kandra

    Just the ice cream cone, or would he eat the ice cream in it too?

    Will Wight

    All of it. It's his now.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #866 Copy

    IJustNeededToVent3

    • Is madra similar to magic in chinese novels, where there's some profound truth and power is determined by how close you are to learning it, or is it more of a "people think it, so that's how it works" kind of system?

    • Is dross doing what drudges do?

    Will Wight

    1.) More the first one than the second one.

    2.) Somewhat, yes!

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #867 Copy

    Skeletickles

    Have you played Dishonored? If so, how do you think the Great Elders or the Abidan would react if the Outsider was transported to Asylum?

    Also, Daud and his Whalers vs the Consultants. Who do you think wins?

    Will Wight

    The Abidan would react swiftly and intensely.

    As for Daud and the Whalers, it's been way too long since I've played Dishonored, so I'm going to side with the Consultants because I'm the one asked. Home team advantage.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #869 Copy

    DonRated

    Apologies if you've answered this before but what do you do on release day/week?

    I can only imagine the nerves with having something you've put your heart and soul into being out in the world and being critically reviewed.

    Do you check the sub like an f5 maniac? Seclude yourself in a room for a week and ignore everything online? Asking for figures from the publisher?

    You've already made my day today so whether you answer or not thanks again for that!

    Will Wight

    Constantly respond to fans and check reviews. Also I celebrate, of course.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #872 Copy

    organic-buddy

    Which was your favorite scene in Cradle to write, so far?

    Which was your least favorite?

    Will Wight

    That's a little harder to answer than it sounds.

    The Dross Presence report was probably my favorite, because it took a lot of coordination to make that scene land in the right way and I was pleased at how it turned out.

    But at the same time, it was very difficult to write, so I wouldn't say it was a fun process. It was just a fun result.

    As for my least favorite, all scenes in which two characters discuss their genuine feelings are very difficult. I have to stop and think and agonize over every line, making sure I'm expressing what they're feeling clearly enough, but not too clearly because real people usually don't just come out and say what they're feeling, but at the same time you also want it to express character and be eloquent enough to make good dialogue and not slow down the plot enough...

    Those are hard.

    Fight scenes are easy. I could write fight scenes all day. The easiest book in the world to write would be a sequence of fight scenes.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #873 Copy

    Mev1012

    I don’t know if this question is fair game but I know you’re friends with Andrew Rowe of arcane ascension how strong do you think Keras is in terms of cradle levels. Also on a more relevant note would you ever consider letting other authors that you trust write in the the Will-verse?

    Will Wight

    I'm honestly not sure, especially after reading the second Weapons and Wielders book. I'd say probably Sage-ish.

    Would I let other authors I trust write in the Willverse? Sure, hypothetically! The hardest part would be coming up with a story bible that was coherent enough for anyone other than me to read.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #876 Copy

    manga-terra

    Could someone follow a path based on infusing madra directly into the body, with a possible blood/life path as the actual path to deal with the physical issues of the path?

    Will Wight

    I don't fully understand the theory there, but that sounds plausible.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #877 Copy

    generic_edgleord

    You don't have to go into any specifics if you want to but have you seen any far off theories on here that you were like that would have been cool if I wrote it that way or I wish I had thought of that first so I could have written that into the story for any of your three series

    Will Wight

    There were a few where I remember thinking "Oh man, that's super cool," or "That would be great in a different story."

    Some of the more intricate Ozriel theories have made me go "Man, these are so detailed, I need to go into my notes and make sure that what I've got is just as thorough."

    But typically by the time it gets down to fans to make theories, I've spent hundreds if not thousands of hours thinking of possibilities. Effectively, I get to create my own theories and then make my favorite one correct.

    positronicman

    Building off of /u/generic_edgelord 's question and your response, have you seen any theories (re: post-Uncrowned events) that were particularly prescient? (not looking for you to identify them)

    Will Wight

    Yes.

    The one that really comes to mind is the Jai Chen one, since at the time that it was guessed there was almost no support for it. But it happened to be correct.

    So I sped up my revelation of that. I had intended not to officially reveal it until Lindon came back to Sacred Valley, but you people are sneaky.

    Incidentally, I've since reconsidered my policy on secrets. There's really no point in banking on something staying un-guessed when you get to a fanbase of sufficient size. With ten thousand people guessing, someone's going to get it right.

    So from then on, I'm attempting to do "revelatory" moments so that they're satisfying whether you guessed them or not.

    positronicman

    Thanks for the detailed answer!

    This strategy that content creators (leaving it generic as this applies across media) adopt regarding the fandom guessing/discovering secrets has been fascinating to me since the tail end of Lost.

    It seems like actively trying to stay ahead of theories, or change things to remain 'secret', is inevitably a losing game - especially with a large and dedicated fan base sleuthing on a long-running series.

    Glad to see you're taking a measured approach, without letting us wreck your plans!

    Will Wight

    Agreed completely.

    I'm in agreement with George RR Martin when he said (and I'm paraphrasing here, not quoting): "If you do all your setup and foreshadowing so that the butler did it, and then you change it to be the maid because the Internet guessed that the butler did it and you wanted it to be a surprise, then you've wasted all that setup."

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #878 Copy

    AccomplishedCoffee

    If someone managed to do whatever it is that makes a Sage a Sage before Archlord, would they still be considered a Sage or not til they reach Archlord as well? Or is it literally impossible before Archlord for some reason?

    Will Wight

    I'm not sure what the terminology would be for that, but with 90% confidence I'd say they would just be a Sage.

    It doesn't happen before Archlord because every evolution in soulfire makes you better able to sense the magic system that Sages can control.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #879 Copy

    Emeraldreader

    If a reader found their way to cradle, could they create a weapon that actually kills a dreadgod?

    Will Wight

    Potentially, sure.

    I've mentioned this before, but I always write into my setting notes little hidden vaults into my worlds filled with the things I would need to live comfortably there. Just in the case of a sudden isekai.

    You never know when you'll get sucked into another reality without warning.

    Jan to Jun 2020 ()
    #880 Copy

    LucasRuby

    How's stuff going with the books?

    How many iterations has the coronavirus spread to so far?

    By the way, could a Sage travel to another world, like say from Cradle to Amalgam? If not, someone above?

    Will Wight

    The books have been slowed by almost a month because of my neck injury, which is really annoying because I was way ahead of schedule before that. Alas.

    Could a Sage travel to another world? Potentially they could, but they would be intercepted by Sector 11 Abidan first and subjected to a bunch of rules before they were allowed to do so.

    The coronavirus is the corruption Suriel speaks of.