Terrible
If Yerin picked up a hobby, what would it be?
Will Wight
Yerin would be into competitive games.
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#1482
CaptnThumbs
Do other nations have the knowledge and the resources required to produce Underlords with greater ease than the Blackflame Empire?
Will Wight
Yes, other powers can produce more Underlords than the Blackflame Empire. Not ALL other nations/factions, but some.
#1483
Lil' Blue
Why could Yerin read London's Unsouled badge if she never heard of the concept and can't read?
Will Wight
The Unsouled badge has a single symbol from the old language on it, and it's established in Blackflame that Yerin can read and/or recognize some of those symbols, because they're used in cycling manuals.
Lil' Blue
As a followup Will, I'd buy that if Yerin said "Empty?" which is what the character means but she said "Unsouled?" She didn't know what that concept meant and there were definitely none in the Heaven's Glory school. So, did she see other Unsouled and that's how she knew?
Will Wight
She said she’d never heard of that concept before reaching the Valley, not before meeting Lindon.
#1484
OrgnlDave
Will the reason I asked about Raw Shark Texts is because I thought it might be good instruction for Lindon x Yerin
Will Wight
Their next villain will be the text on the page, forming itself into a shark to devour their conceptual existence
OrgnlDave
that's actually that could work in Cradle
Will Wight
Yeah, as I said it, that actually wasn’t too absurd for the Abidan.
#1485
OrgnlDave
HEY WILL DID YOU SEE DBZA60 pt 3? there's a big green now. so where's big blue?
Will Wight
Following the DBZA example, Big Blue is a giant wish-granting sapphire dragon.
#1486
Lil' Blue
Or is Yerin still gross and scary to Little Blue?
Will Wight
No. Her hatred and fear has only grown. Soon she will evolve into a Yerin-devouring monster.
#1487
Lil' Blue
I wish Jeri died instead of Lucian.
Will Wight
Too bad; in OKAK she wins and becomes the new Empress, ruling forever over an Elder-blighted homeworld.
#1488
OrgnlDave
I think that the plot synopses of your novels could use some work.
Will Wight
Re:synopses, I know, I just hate writing them. And the synopses for sequels don’t matter to almost anyone, so it’s hard to take them seriously. Only the first book really matters, and even then apparently not much.
#1489
OrgnlDave
Actually Will, that's the perfect way to introduce it, Yerin x Lindon kissed between books, but when we get to Underlord, she's pulled back because her blood shadow tried to kill him or something and now she's struggling with it or SOMETHING LIKE THAT totally works it into the plot, see?
Will Wight
I would love to do that, but my challenge is doing more character/relational development in scene. Have to step up.
#1490
Lil' Blue
Lindon and Yerin go to an "educational dream tablet viewing" a.k.a a date.
Tievel
If we ever get a scene or story about those two going on a date, I definitely want it to be Yerin who plans the outing. Because I imagine that would be hilarious.
OrgnlDave
How would Lindon be any less hilarious? he knows nothing about the world or women?
Will Wight
I know I’ve said this a lot, but it bears repeating: the main reason there hasn’t been overt romantic development in Cradle thus far is because it’s hard to find space. Not my unwillingness to write it. There just aren’t many purely character/relational scenes in the whole series. So I need to either make room for those, thus potentially altering the fundamental formula of the series thus far, or find a way to work the same level of relational development into plot scenes. I’m trying the second one, but it’s hard.
#1491
Lil' Blue
Pirates or Ninjas? Will said he likes both equally.
Will Wight
Whoa whoa whoa, I said I was on Team Shera and Team Calder. Because I basically own both teams. But pirates versus ninjas? Ninjas all the way. No contest.
#1492
OrgnlDave
What's a fanfic you'd write?
Will Wight
No joke, I seriously considered writing a real DBZ-inspired fantasy series. Some of the elements could work wonders in a novel series. Yeah, 90% filler and 9% powering up. The magic system isn’t necessarily too simple, it just isn’t developed. If it were, and given actual rules, it could work. The same fights become tactical and more dramatic when you understand the interplay of the magic system. But the main thing that got me interested was the constant tension they keep the reader in. The false climactic fights, the ramp-up of tension, the continued escalation of stakes... DBZ doesn’t have real rules. Or rather, they do in individual chapters/episodes, but the rules change so frequently and arbitrarily that it might as well not. So people making fan charts and speculating on power levels from Super might as well not bother, because there is no real answer. I vividly remember my collection of DBZ tapes.
#1493
TransEmo
Papa orthos must live! And love!
Will Wight
It was hard not to, I won’t lie. But I like him. I need to start killing some folks.
Decadakon
Kill Ozriel, We won't see it coming.
Will Wight
That’s true, that would be the biggest twist. “Hey, told you Ozriel was dead.”
#1494
Lil' Blue
Is madra a series of tubes?
Will Wight
Madra itself is not a series of tubes, but it can exist only in the context of a series of loops and channels that might be described as tubes. Bindings and scripts re-pattern madra in order to control it and produce different effects, so you might say that madra in its natural state is ALWAYS cycling through an interconnected network of tubes. So while madra is not a series of tubes, the system by which the sacred arts can be performed IS a series of tubes.
#1495
Lil' Blue
Let's say a trans person is becoming a Lord, can they transition?
Will Wight
Soulfire doesn’t allow a human to shift shape, so no. Sacred beasts have a different relationship to soulfire; it’s a lot more tied to their bodies.
#1496
OrgnlDave
If a boy dragon wanted to be a girl dragon, could his soulfire allow that transformation as he progressed to Overlord?
Will Wight
Hmmmm never thought of that. Yes, though, that would work. Maybe not in the transition from Truegold to Underlord, but probably at Overlord, and certainly at Archlord.
#1497
Lil' Blue
I really think we need an extract from Dross's Patreon.
Will Wight
I’m not writing erotic fanfiction of my own or anybody else’s work, BUT...writing “erotic” fanfiction the way DROSS would view it...that’s pretty tempting.
#1498
Lil' Blue
Will, I like when you use easily searchable words for the archive.
Will Wight
Hahaha gotcha, I should say other easily searchable words. Rutabaga I am committed to developing my characters romantically. Aardvark if I can figure out how to write stories more efficiently, I hope to scale up my production to a consistent 3 books a year so that I can try more new things
#1499
Tower
My 2 cents is to just leave rape out of books altogether. It's a problem worldwide. We don't need to read about it in a source of ENTERTAINMENT.
Will Wight
Eh. It depends on the tone and intent of the work of entertainment in question. Sometimes it’s perfectly appropriate to deal with a heavy subject in a drama designed for entertainment. That said, it’s too heavy for my stuff. I’m not going to give sexual abuse the gravity it deserves, so I’m leaving it out.
Lil' Blue
And that's a perfectly acceptable reason, Will. Better to not address it than address it poorly.
Will Wight
That’s basically my position. And not every work of fiction can or should deal with every subject, so...
#1500
Lil' Blue
You should definitely address romance in your books. ;)
Will Wight
Shshshshshshshshsssssssshhhhh. Hush now.
Lil' Blue
I need an awkward Will protagonist date in my life.
Will Wight
Jk, I know you’re right, and it’s going in. I have to practice to learn how to use it effectively, and the only way I practice is through LIVE-FIRE EXERCISE. Everything that happens to Lindon and/or Simon results in awkwardness.
Lil' Blue
"Lindon: So uh...you like swords, right Yerin?" "Simon: I like my eyes and having both of them."
Will Wight
^ Thats now my favorite. I’m going to try and work that in.