Your Benevolent Dictator
If lindon had to choose between a sword, an ax , a mace, a flail, a staff, or a bow, which would he choose?
Will Wight
Procrastination brings me around Discord-way. As always. If Lindon has to choose between the above, he would probably choose the mace. It requires the least training to use effectively: hit person with thing.
Lil' Blue
What's Yerin's ideal date?
Will Wight
Okay: Yerin wouldn’t know. She wouldn’t even really be able to answer. She would need some time dating in order to figure it out and get over the “wait a second, why aren’t we training?” culture shock.
Chris646
You’ve said that Sha Miara counters/controls other people’s skills. Would this work as well with pure madra or could someone sufficiently powerful just disperse everything she does?
Will Wight
Her powers would work against pure madra. However, not absolutely.
Kidpen
Which characters do you think would turn out the best in fanart form, out of curiosity?
Will Wight
Orthos. No joke. He’s the easiest and most vivid to illustrate as described.
ryan
Do any iterations not have a way of ascending?
Will Wight
Asylum does not. It’s locked.
Kandra
If Yerin and Lindon started dating, what kind of relationship advice would Eithan give? xD
Will Wight
He would tell them to develop their friendship first, and to make sure they have the same priorities and are fully committed to one another, because they have a long way to go together. His goal is far.
Kandra
It's like [Eithan]'s been in a relationship before...
Will Wight
Eithan screws around a lot, but his WIS is pretty high. In fact, he’s one of those “I rolled six 18s; what now, DM?” kind of guys.
He has been in at least one serious relationship before, I can say that much.
Kandra
Eithan's maturity levels are about as high as a 15 year old's
Will Wight
Eh, Eithan has some immature tendencies. But don’t we all?
MountainKing
I want Lindon to develop a forger/striker technique that creates like a shield or a blade that disrupts techniques.
Will Wight
I’m still gradually deciding what techniques Lindon will end up with. I have a lot of possibilities.
Your Benevolent Dictator
Eithan as a D&D character would piss off a DM
Will Wight
Frankly, I’ve never found overpowered characters to be a problem unless the players are in high school.
Because if it’s about the story, weak characters are just as interesting.
Kandra
Does the part of the Blackflame Empire they're in experience seasons?
Will Wight
It does, but they’re sucky seasons. Summer is hot and dry, winter is cold and dry, and autumn is dead and dry. But they also move around a lot.
Arch
What would a monarch level piece of equipment/weapon be like, seeing as a monarch level binding would be virtually unheard of, would it be dozens of interlocking herald bindings, or maybe something touched by the way?
Will Wight
A Monarch level piece of equipment would indeed touch on powers beyond Cradle.
Lil' Blue
Would anyone in Cradle have powers that mimic Za Warudo?
Will Wight
No, no time freezing on Cradle. After Cradle, sure.
Decadakon
Thoughts on smash?
Will Wight
My thoughts are: "Why am I not playing Smash right now?"
For real though, I feel like they should have done this concept last time around. Putting everyone on the roster just makes sense; Smash doesn't have to be balanced, as long as there are a few competitively viable people. Why NOT have a massive roster?
I'm excited. Smash Bros is one of my secret joys.
(Jk, it's not secret.)
Lil' Blue
Are you happy for the slow hurricane season?
Will Wight
I'm always happy when I don't have to clean debris out of my yard, but I do wish it wasn't eighty degrees here today. In mid-November.
Your Benevolent Dictator
What is the place with the helpful hardware folks?
Will Wight
My torture chamber.
MountainKing
Do cores convert a Sacred Artist's physical mass into madra, to create more madra?
Will Wight
Pure madra is actually generated by the way the human body processes life aura and blood aura. It really is the interaction of body, mind, and spirit, in a sense.
MountainKing
So a sacred artist's body is naturally consuming blood, dream, and life aura?
Will Wight
Basically, yeah.
MountainKing
What kind of benefits do Cradlites get for doing that?
Will Wight
The ability to use madra.
Tievel
Who wins: Suriel vs Kirby
Will Wight
Kirby, hands-down. The power he gets from absorbing Suriel is just too busted.
Kandra
So, I've been basing the sacred artist robes on the Hanfu (and a mix of other traditional clothing in ancient East Asia), is this more or less the correct? Should I be basing them off something more modern?
Will Wight
Nope, that's the right direction. I intentionally don't give too much detail because I don't want people to get hung up on whether they're belted from the left or from the right or whatever, but I did research on all sorts of traditional Chinese, Korean, and Taoist martial arts clothing before writing.
Hammy
This may be spoiler or RAFO but, Are there still Blackflame Dragons hiding in the world? If they are hiding i assume it is because other dragons hunt them down.
Will Wight
There are some individuals out there with Blackflame madra besides Lindon and Orthos, yes.