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Hammy

How old are Lindon and Yerin?

Will Wight

I’ve confirmed they’re both 18 for fan purposes.

Lil' Blue

What are cradle confections?

Will Wight

It’s a specific subset of medicinal refining. There are sugars that energize your spirit and candies that cause you to levitate.

Will Wight

Another random story idea I've had before (although this would be more of a storytelling mechanism than anything): I'd like to do a series where I explicitly roll for the results of (at least some of) the main character's actions. So you know that when the character miraculously succeeds or disastrously fails, it was the dice and not me intervening.    

So like a serial where I Facebook Live the result of the roll every day, and then narrate the results the next day.    

Kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure, but with fate.

Tievel

So I think that sacred beasts, or at least dragons, may begin producing soulfire before Truegold

Will Wight

Not before Truegold, but at the peak of Truegold. The three steps on the way to Underlord are opening a soulspace, gathering soulfire, and using it to refine the body.

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Did Suriel's eyes really take up half of her face?

Will Wight

That was an exaggeration from a person thinking back to the appearance she used to have. She just meant her eyes were too large and she thought they made her look weird.

Will Wight

I did have one semi-humorous story "idea" one time that still appeals to me for some reason. I realized that there are so many arch-whatevers in fantasy universes, so I created a setting that I called The Arches, about a kid whose whole family is an arch-something except him. His mom is an arch-druid, his dad is an arch-priest, his sister is an archmage and his brother is an arch-demon, that sort of thing. And he's just like...not.

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What about that tent scene hmm?

Will Wight

You know the funny thing about the tent scene? From the very beginning, when I sent my primary editor the outline, we were both like "Okay, you know there will be people who pair Mercy and Yerin just because they spend this much time together."

Lil' Blue

A lot of people ship Saeya x Eithan.

Will Wight

Speaking solely about what's in the books and nothing non-canon from my head, the Eithan x Saeya ship has both more and less to it. On the one hand, the characters are peers that have a prior history with one another. On the other hand, they've barely spent any time together in scene.

Tievel

I think [the Saeya x Eithan ship] may also be partly because she's basically the only person in the series we've seen so far that hasn't wanted or tried to outright strangle Eithan...

Will Wight

Who says she hasn't wanted to outright strangle him? Even his oldest friends wanted to strangle him half the time.

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I want to know bout them [Saeya's] feathers .

Will Wight

Well, this does have to do with Saeya's, like, one appearance tag. The feathers do have powers, they are an artifact with an actual purpose. Not sure if we'll get to see it in the series; depends on how Underlord goes, which determines how much screentime she'll have in books seven and eight.

Lil' Blue

It's really funny though Will, you are now known for your underdog stories.      

Yet your first story sounds anything but xD

Will Wight

I know, right? So many of my outlines are about people who start off at the highest level of power.    

I think it reflects me refining what I wanted in the story more than the evolution of my tastes, because even then I knew something was missing when it came to the plot. I could imagine cool scenes of the stuff the protagonist would do easily enough, but I always had trouble thinking of how the plot would progress.

Only to realize years later that it was because the character started off with nowhere to go. He had all the powers, allies, and resources almost right away, so I just had to contrive further obstacles for him, so he's fighting magical space armies right off the bat.

Will Wight

You know, it occurred to me as I've been recording the audio for CoL: this is the only book of mine I've never read.

Lil' Blue

Do you feel any trepidation about reading it?

Will Wight

Do I feel trepidation about reading CoL...not really. Honestly, it's been cool to read over scenes I forgot about. It's the most distance I've ever had from my writing, and while there are definitely things I would go back and improve if I had the chance (and it would be completely different if I wrote it now), I'm enjoying it. There are some things that I thought "Man, this is a good idea, I should steal this" and then I was like..."Wait..."

Will Wight

So, fun fact: my original version of the Abidan setting had a group of people who drew on power from the Void, a group who drew on the Way, and a group who had basically generic psychic powers that were in the middle. And the story followed a guy who was artificially contrived, by the machinations of Ozriel and Suriel (who at the time was the Ghost), to have the powers of all three. He ended up contracting with a shapeshifting dragon named Oerthon who gave him Void powers, a water fairy named Melusine who gave him Way powers, and he developed the regular psychic powers himself.

FifthDreadgodLindiego

What would happen if someone put a Remnant binding into their soulspace for a long-term period of time?

Will Wight

I'm...not sure if I want to answer this yet. I will say that there is a way to take a binding and graft it into your spirit, so you can steal someone else's techniques. I'm not ready to talk about the specific mechanics involved in doing so, though.

Felix

Could a light sacred-artist create different wavelengths of light?

Will Wight

Yes, potentially light artists could manipulate the wavelength of light.

Kidpen

What is the best mix-in at Cold Stone?

Will Wight

This is the kind of question I like to see. Reese's Pieces.

Lil' Blue

Followup, which ice cream flavor?

Will Wight

Cookie dough.

OrgnlDave

Is Akura Malice always giant?

Will Wight

Akura Malice is never giant.

Hjorth

Have you ever had Sour Cream and Onion popcorn? It sounds really disgusting but honestly it tastes amazing?

Will Wight

I have not, but I like sour cream and onion chips, and my hunger for popcorn is legendary and never-ending. To the nation of popcorn, I am a walking natural disaster. I would try that.

Puppet Master

What would the Lirial energy crystal do when bonded to Valinhall?

Will Wight

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.

The Last Reader

What would a monarch level poison do?

Will Wight

It would be sentient, more like a plague than a poison, and it would not only devour the spirit and the mind, but would corrupt the madra and aura of the land around it as well. Inside a Monarch, being contained by their spirit, it might just act like a normal poison would in a normal person.