So, could you give us some examples of how the ideals that spren represent work in other magic systems, like we have Forging where you get plausibility, or Returned how they’re beautiful or any other systems?
Okay, one more time on that.
Okay, so you know the ideals the spren are manifestations–
Yes.
How– Do those have impacts on other magic systems?
Yes, yes, in the same way the Returned- that’s the exact same system at work there.
Is it the same reason why the Lord Ruler has to die of old age, and why you can’t heal yourself into being an octopus or something?
Um… Yes, that is all connected in the exact same way.
Okay, so it’s all like these high falutin’ spiritual ideals?
Yes.
And are there like, median Cognitive ideals that gradually kind of influence these, or–
Yeah, they transcend between the three. I mean the original concept for the three realms is Platonic philosophy.
So it goes up *makes absurd reverse-waterfall hand gesture*
Yeah, it goes up and it comes back down. A lot of the Cognitive is– So like, the Cognitive has a bigger effect on how you can heal and things like that. Does that make sense?
Yeah.
But the power to heal is a actually a spiritual thing.
So it’s like the spiritual says “I want to be like this” and the Cognitive is like “okay I’ll try really hard to be like that, but I have a limit.”
Right. Right. Filtered through how you see yourself, yeah.
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