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    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
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    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1327 Copy

    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1329 Copy

    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1330 Copy

    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1331 Copy

    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1332 Copy

    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.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1333 Copy

    TransEmo

    I have to ask Will, does the sword sage have a name? I’ve been assuming it’s Tim until proved otherwise.

    Will Wight

    He does. It is Tim.

    (Not to take us too far back on topic, but just to be clear: the Sword Sage does have a name, it will be used in the series, and it isn’t really Tim. Let your meme-y hopes die.)

    It’s Timothy. He didn’t like nicknames.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1335 Copy

    OrgnlDave

    Ooh, would it be really mean to ask what your biggest regrets in the Cradle system are?       cough sword sage death cough

    Will Wight

    It’s not the Sword Sage’s death. My only regret regarding his death was not having Yerin in Book 2 clearly say “BOY THIS WAS SUPER WEIRD YOU GUYS,” just so people would know I didn’t make a mistake

    OrgnlDave

    I don't know, she doesn't really know what a Sage is capable of       even still       he doesn't seem like the type that would lecture a young girl on how his body works

    Will Wight

    Yeah, that’s why it wasn’t in there initially. But it confuses readers, which means I probably should have handled it differently.

    September 2018 - December 2018 ()
    #1336 Copy

    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.