My question is kind of twofold. So the Emperor’s Soul takes place on Sel. Is it’s magic derived from the Dor?
Yes.
Okay, and second, Mistborn, the broadsheet hints that there’s a continent or whatever on the other side of the Mistborn planet.
Yes.
Would that also be connected to Allomancy and Feruchemy and all that?
Yes, it will be.
So, I gave you a lot of answers. [laughter] To expand upon that, the magic systems for Elantris- the pitch to myself designing the world and magic system was this kind of procedural-based, almost programing-based magic. Where in Elantris, you use these characters to programout a sequence of events that tells the power flowing through what to do.
What Shai is doing in this book is she carves a little seal. And the seal is very much like a little program, and she stamps it on something and uses that stamp to rewrite the history of the object. As long as the seal is there, the object thinks it has this other history. The example you see in the book is you know- an old dirty table that’s not been cared for, she can write a seal for its history, she has to figure out what its history was first. And she can write out a seal that basically reprograms that past, so when she stamps it, it thinks it’s been cared for all along and suddenly it gains this lacquer, it’s beautiful, it’s been well-cared for, because in that fake Forgery of the history, that’s what happened to it. And that’s what her magic does, which is why she’s been hired to Forge a copy of the emperor’s soul.
[Ooooh]
Yeah, I know I’m evil.
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