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Interview #1122: Central Library, Seattle, WA, Entry #34

Question

So I heard that one of the worlds, Yolen, has disease related magic. How does that work?

Brandon Sanderson

It’s not Yolen, it’s Ashyn. Viruses and bacteria, various strains of them, evolved in-line with the investiture of the world to grant you magical abilities when you catch the disease, because they want you to stay alive long enough to– To transmit it. So it becomes a transmission vector. So you can fly when you have the common cold, but when you get over it, you can’t anymore.

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