bossmonkey88
I know Will is crazy busy but I would love to see a collection of short snips of the series from Eithan's true perspective.
Will Wight
As one of the stretch goals for the Kickstarter, I promised to write spoiler-free scenes for the first three books. The sort of things you might see in an Extended Edition.
And since the goal was so very stretched, I also promised to write at least one spoiler-FULL scene, which takes place during the first three books but which you shouldn’t read unless you’re caught up on the series.
I’m not saying it’s necessarily an Eithan POV. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Always in motion is the future.
cavapooboi
How fast could Yerin speedrun Valinhall?
Will Wight
Book 11 Yerin entering Valinhall would be a cataclysmic event. She would have to veil herself to avoid destabilizing the space. It would take trivial effort to break the Territory entirely.
Underlord Yerin would probably be the best bet for speedrunning it while still getting some benefit out of it and not completely unbalancing the whole thing.
lcxicey
can we get this happening in a blooper? it would be hilarious to see your take on it. Probably just wishful thinking since im just finishing up travelers gate and would love to see the different worlds interact and how the valin travelers would view her lol
Will Wight
That would be a little too substantial for a blooper, I think, but it sounds like fun to write.
MysteryLolznation
I've re-read this series five times. Ask me anything and then edit the question to make me look like I've never read it, or a horrible person.
Will Wight
[says something which was no doubt profound, witty, or both, which is now lost to the dark depths of Reddit edit history, later edited to:]
What is the true name of the Dark Lord, He Who Lurks Beneath Reality, the Destroyer of All Joy, the Dark Spirit Whose Name Should Not Be Whispered, the Cause of True Suffering, the One Who Canceled Firefly, the Author of Damnation, and the Creature Whose Aspect Is So Vile That Merely Glimpsing His Visage Will Cause Your Face To Melt Off?
…and what are the words used to summon him?
MysteryLolznation
Will Wight. WAIT HOLY FUCK
yourmomyourdad21210
I'm about to graduate, and I'd like to use one of Cradle's quotes as my senior quote. What would you pick in my position?
Will Wight
“Every day you survive is a new surprise for me.”
-Dross
My senior quote was “Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Canaanite_
Asking ChatGPT about books Will Wight has written. Got some interesting responses...
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Will Wight
Wow those titles are kinda legit. “The Soulstalker,” “Sorcerer to the Crown,” “The Endless King.”
I’m gonna let AI name my books from now on.
ChefHancock
Gpt was starting to run out of ideas with "Return to First City" lol
Will Wight
I didn’t expect The First City to be such a hit, and it really only made sense as a standalone. Return to First City was the only thing I could do with the sequel, but I felt like the trilogy finally came into its own with The Final Gate.
lysanderslair
I stick to my interpretation that [The Iron Heart] might use 10 times as much madra per second to heal an injury but only take 1% as long to do the healing so it is a net win.
Will Wight
Yeah that’s the answer.
The way I think of it is that the Iron Heart channels madra more efficiently through the Bloodforged Iron body, operating the effect faster but taking more energy.
Overall, it’s more effective. Less energy is being lost in total due to inefficiency and the effect happens faster.
But short-term, it drains madra from you faster because it can handle a faster transfer rate.
Respectfully yours,
The cold-hearted MFer
effortfulcrumload
Does Cradle operate on at 24 hour day, 365 day year?
Will Wight
Really? No.
Effectively? Yes.
Meaning, I’m using the Earth definitions of “day” and “hour” and “year” for the purposes of not confusing real-world readers.
MysteryLolznation
I've re-read this series five times. Ask me anything and then edit the question to make me look like I've never read it, or a horrible person.
Will Wight
[says something which was no doubt profound, witty, or both, which is now lost to the dark depths of Reddit edit history, later edited to:]
What is the true name of the Dark Lord, He Who Lurks Beneath Reality, the Destroyer of All Joy, the Dark Spirit Whose Name Should Not Be Whispered, the Cause of True Suffering, the One Who Canceled Firefly, the Author of Damnation, and the Creature Whose Aspect Is So Vile That Merely Glimpsing His Visage Will Cause Your Face To Melt Off?
…and what are the words used to summon him?
MysteryLolznation
Will Wight. WAIT HOLY FUCK
yourmomyourdad21210
I'm about to graduate, and I'd like to use one of Cradle's quotes as my senior quote. What would you pick in my position?
Will Wight
“Every day you survive is a new surprise for me.”
-Dross
My senior quote was “Build a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Vedcikk
"She had an even harder time saying the word 'Romantic' than she did the word 'Jewelry'"-
Yeah that's undoubtedly Yerin
Will Wight
You’re going to be very surprised when Suriel starts talking about Valentine’s Day traditions in Cradle and has trouble pronouncing the local words for “romance” and “jewelry.”
Spherious
So, not to be greedy for info, but, uh...can we get a ballpark length for The Captain?
Will Wight
120k, I think. That’s the ballpark, anyway.
terrafirma91
All the covers being posted together made me think we need a new Uncrowned cover. CIRCLES
Will Wight
Fun fact: the cover designer wanted the banner to be straight so that the circular emblem would line up with the others.
I wanted it blowing in the breeze because I thought it looked cooler.
So that one’s on me.
HeraklesHemitheos
It’s a good looking cover as is. Though when it comes around to Uncrowned having a special hardback edition, presumably via future kickstarter, can the cover design match the pattern of the others? Pretty please?
Will Wight
The special editions will.
Rikulz
Okay but how about answering the real question. How many takes did this take? 😂
Will Wight
This is my second take. The first take would have worked, but the audio wasn’t great so we had to get closer with the camera.
I generally do pretty well when I don’t have a script and can just deliver. When I have to remember a bunch of stuff I fall apart and have an existential crisis and it takes us sixteen hours to get thirty seconds of usable footage.
mishaxz
I wonder if that's his real name or a made up one
Well I guess it's no different than something like will Wheaton
It's just funny because it sounds like the start of a sentence..
Will white prevail?
Will Wight
I know it sounds made up, but I swear it is my real name. Pretty sure one of my ancestors was undead.
Jmw566
So far as I can tell, the 'Disciplines' of magic that he's learning are:
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Rituals and Binding (OG)
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Elemental Magic (water specifically?)
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Edit: it was pointed out that the Doom-y scenario he tries to use a “path finding” spell which could be divination based
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Curses
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Not enough info in the civil war scenario
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Not enough info in the invincible 'hero' scenario
All the scenarios share the same sci-fi vibe where the magic is combined with technology, so I think I agree that they're all pretty similar mechanically, but each discipline seems fairly narrow/deep instead of being versatile. It should give our hero the chance to fight by switching up different schools to be able to play into what the scenario needs in a way that other characters in the verse can't while not having him just be *better* than each individual enemy at things in general. I'm really looking forward to it since it seems like conflicts will be decided by much more than just "X is faster/stronger, so they blitz" and be more of a tactical play against advantages of certain disciplines over others.
I don't know if the limitations are as hard-coded into the magic system as Cradle's cores are, though. It seems to me that the magic being ritual/knowledge based and not really technique/feeling based indicates that the problem is a psychological one. I think that the limitation for knowing one system is that it's perspective-altering diving that deep into one discipline and you just can't really conceivably bend your mind around it another way. Like one of those illusions where you see one perspective until someone tells you where to focus and the image flips to something else. But you don't really know how to make it flip back, so you can only see the new image. I think that's why he had to live the lives/memories of his other selves. He was trying to just import the knowledge of the magic, but that wouldn't have been possible without having the perspective of his other selves.
Will Wight
||I’m really looking forward to it since it seems like conflicts will be decided by much more than just “X is faster/stronger, so they blitz”
Very vague and minor spoilers for Book 1 (nothing plot-related, just having to do with my intentions)…
Ultimately yeah, that’s the plan, but I’ll warn you now that there’s a lot of blitzing. Especially in the first book.
lysanderslair
I stick to my interpretation that [The Iron Heart] might use 10 times as much madra per second to heal an injury but only take 1% as long to do the healing so it is a net win.
Will Wight
Yeah that’s the answer.
The way I think of it is that the Iron Heart channels madra more efficiently through the Bloodforged Iron body, operating the effect faster but taking more energy.
Overall, it’s more effective. Less energy is being lost in total due to inefficiency and the effect happens faster.
But short-term, it drains madra from you faster because it can handle a faster transfer rate.
Respectfully yours,
The cold-hearted MFer
effortfulcrumload
Does Cradle operate on at 24 hour day, 365 day year?
Will Wight
Really? No.
Effectively? Yes.
Meaning, I’m using the Earth definitions of “day” and “hour” and “year” for the purposes of not confusing real-world readers.
Annoyingly_Eithan
Is the Traveller's Gate fandom dead?
I've been searching around iteration 110 for a while trying to find anything partaining to Indiriel, Simon, Leah, or even Alin. I'll find a morsel occasionally, but is this fandom dead?
Will Wight
The fandom isn’t dead, but Cradle is the ongoing series. I expect to see this question about Cradle a few years after the series is over.
…which might be a little awkward, given that the name of the sub is r/Iteration110Cradle
I’d really like to get back to Traveler’s Gate, but I have to do something new first. I haven’t written in a new world since 2016 and I’m having a lot of fun.
DrDroopyD
That’s so many books lmao, I can’t believe Will signed all of them, must have taken ages
Will Wight
It did. I signed them all. They’re signed, every single one of them. And not just the manuscripts, but the womanuscripts and the childrenuscripts too!
They’re books! And I signed them like books!
Will Wight
(But for real though, idk if all the books pictured in that image are signed. Some of the books are part of the extra printing we’re hoping to get in bookstores, and I only signed the ones actually going to Kickstarter backers. Which was still over 20,000.)
SirMisterGuyMan
Lindon fighting Malice amp can reasonably be explained with his with Silent King amp. How about Yerrin? The two have always been able to fight above their weight class but she's still "just" a newborn Herald. In previous books they said they'd need to reach peak Archlord to be a true Herald/Sage so she's not really even a real Herald yet.
In my head I just assume that Malice must be really exhausted from her continuous fights. I'm not totally happy with that explanation but it's all I've got at the moment.
Will Wight
My view of Yerin in this fight is that she’s roughly the equivalent of a normal Herald. She has some unique advantages, but so do many Heralds.
Fury, for instance, could have beaten her.
But she’s at the level of being able to participate in this fight while Lindon puts the lion’s share (tiger’s share?) of the pressure on.
That’s my general thought process, anyway.
