Are there any betting organizations? To bet on the outcome of a duel for instancethere probably is but how advanced is it? Do they manage to show the fights live using dream madra?!
Are there any betting organizations? Yes, and if I have my way they'll show up in book six.
What specifically is the difference between cycling vital aura to add it to your core and cycling madra to add it to your core like Jai Long does after he absorbs a remnant with the Ancestor's Spear? I thought cycling was the process of turning vital aura into madra but if you have to cycle madra you acquire directly then maybe I'm wrong.
"Cycling" is just moving madra through your body through certain patterns. You can cycle aura into madra, cycle your madra to prepare for certain techniques, etc.
It has been discussed and mentioned in the book and in discord But I wanted to clarify the steps for Underlord that have been mentioned. (i understand the spoilers etc. so if you can't give anything away :ok_hand: ) Step 1 is opening a soul space above the core to place things. step 2 was mentioned being able to weave soulfire but is that just the first part of step 2 or is that all step 2 is?
Soulfire: that's all step two is, but it's more complicated than it sounds. Step 3 is forging your body in soulfire.
I've got one, we have Orthos as a Sacred Beast Turtle, but are there also Sacred Beast Tortoises?
Sacred beast tortoises: no. In the language they're speaking, there's no distinction between the word for turtle and the one for tortois. *or tortoise, even
What would an amazing pure goldsign be What would a meh pure goldsign be
Amazing: blades extending out of your forearms that cut through only spirits, ignoring matter and flesh. Meh: endless pure madra tears running down from your eyes.
Who was the most powerful Blackflame and what rank did he/she hit?
The most powerful member of the Blackflame family was an Archlord, unless I decide to go back in time and retcon them into a Sage.
Given a person has two cores of the same madra type, such as Lindon did before blackflame, could one not internalise the “forge a scale, cycle to replenish core, take in scale to expand” by just cycling madra out of one core, closing it off and using the madra now cycling the body to expand the 2nd core, rinse and repeat?
No, that only works very early in your career as a sacred artist, when expanding your core is most of what matters. You'd lose more by splitting your core than you'd gain from that technique.
So there’s multiple examples of Sacred Artists having “living techniques” like the mentioned Path of the Crawling Shades during Blackflame I believe or Jai Long’s own twistedd path. Do techniques like these require a certain kind of madra (dream madra, life madra, Blood madra?) or can any madra or path create “living techniques”?
If they need a certain kind of madra what kinds are needed?
It's not a particular aspect of madra, so to speak. It's another ingredient that we'll go into eventually.
Will Lindon take students eventually, or does he just leave a path manual.
Not sure yet.
The wastland artist in the excerpt is described as "horned". What does his horn (horns?) look like? A heavy rhinotype horn, like a stag etc or?
Two upward-curving emerald horns. They’re luminous lime green at the base and they run up the gradient to the points, which are dark green.
Do the desolate wilds surround Sacred Valley on all sides, or only on its eastern border?
Only to the east.
Is the first elder of the Wei clan simply a jade. Since the first time I read unsouled I've had this nagging suspicion that hes much stronger ? Could he possibly be an underlord cloaking his power ?
No, he’s Jade. He’s just very skilled.
Elder Whisper, on the other hand...
Is Seshethkunaaz the dragon Monarch or is he/she/it someone/something else?
Yes, although I haven’t edited these passages yet, so I might have messed up the spelling.
How do they make pure scales without those machines from the Desolate Wilds?
They have other ways to do it in the Blackflame Empire, but it’s a similar process. Sometimes they have Foundation kids do it for training.
If Cradle has a population of 6 billion+, does it really have 60 million+ Underlords and above?
The numbers listed in Soulsmith are not accurate. It’s just an idiom for the sake of illustrating a point.
Of the eight badges Lindon found, I'm assuming the halfsilver one is Lord, would the Goldsteel one then be Sage, or Herald?
That will be revealed.
Will Cassius children be Aureliuses or Naru? And if they are Naru, will the Naru clan (with much celebration)be getting members with the Aurelius bloodline ability?
They’ll be both, but the Naru clan takes precedence, so mostly they’ll be considered Naru.
Is there any stories on a dynamic duo of a sacred artist and beast pairing up and taking on challenges, foes and kingdoms?
Yes.
When Ozriel said Cradle had 600 billion souls, was that all humans or does that include sacred beasts/trees?
Unclear.
Do higher level Sacred artists still have to deal with blemishes like pimples and wrinkles? Or tanning? Or have their bodies advanced beyond those things?
No, their bodies have advanced beyond such things. For the most part.
