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Topic: Brandon Sanderson

Lyndrek Title: Moderator Lynx Mod Posts: 36,955 Registered: Nov 22, '99 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 34,000 User ID: 5,632	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	Damn his magic systems are strange! well okay I've only read the Way of Kings and I am reading Mistborn now. But honestly! Not that it's a bad thing, it actually makes his novels separate from normal fantasy literature (that's good) but where does he come up with them? But I can see the similarities between the Mistborn and the Way of Kings styles of magic. -----signature----- Moderator I am not a Dev!
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Yossarian_42 Title: RUSH > ALL Posts: 43,073 Registered: Feb 28, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 40,466 User ID: 651,769	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	He puts a lot of thought in to those magic systems. Some of them he says he has been refining since he was a teenager. The Mistborn one is pretty complex, it even has tables. That isn't just a pretty chart, there are reasons why certain things are in certain places relative to each other. -----signature----- If I have burnt my bridges I will walk on water. If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me, oh My seething wrath and urge for blood is fueled by searing hate. I'm X X X bitch, triple X rated.
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Lyndrek Title: Moderator Lynx Mod Posts: 36,955 Registered: Nov 22, '99 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 34,000 User ID: 5,632	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	heh I was wondering what all the metals were, i'm only halfway through book 1 and it just has mentioned iron, steel, copper, brass, tin, pewter, zinc and bronze and atium. oh and the "11th" metal. but I kept going on in my head wait that's not ten metals what's the 9th metal why don't they mention it at all! -----signature----- Moderator I am not a Dev!
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n0tdan Posts: 2,408 Registered: Jan 28, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 2,119 User ID: 634,720	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	I like the different systems. I'm hooked! -----signature----- DAOC -- Geft Snowball -- Iseult FFXI -- Geft -- Lakshmi WoW -- Geft - Torean -- Alliance -- Frostwolf FFXIV -- Geft Snowball -- Mysidia
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Tai-Daishar_MT Title: Moderator Troll Eradicator Posts: 18,124 Registered: Mar 9, '00 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 16,150 User ID: 14,326	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	I really appreciate the effort writers like this put into creative magic systems. The same old same old is just, well, old. In addition to Brandon, I also like the magic (referred to as Fae) system created by C.S. Friedman in the Coldfire Trilogy. -----signature----- Fare thee well VN, Vini, Vidi, Vici!
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Raiztlin Title: Dick Tracy Posts: 8,885 Registered: Jan 23, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 8,688 User ID: 626,780	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	I love the magicsystem in the Mistborn trilogy. One of many reasons why I like the books Reading The Way of Kings right now -----signature----- I has a flavor! CC always welcome.
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Altra_Shadowstalker Posts: 17,553 Registered: Jan 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 16,076 User ID: 616,837	Subject: Brandon Sanderson
	One thing I noticed about his dialogue that irks me, is that its always so one-tracked. Guy 1: I have this master plan! Guy 2: I don't understand why Guy 1: [explains motivations] Guy 3: but what is your plan? Guy 1: [explains plan] Guy 2: I don't understand this Guy 1: [clarifies plan] Guy 3: hey, let's have lunch Guy 1: actually I have to go so we can end the scene. -----signature----- "Goddammit, Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I could th'ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie." I don't typo often, but when I do, I blame Swype.
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