Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I like how Patrick Rothfuss wrote about “magic” in his Kingkiller Chronicle… I think it was explicitly called something else (been years since I read the books), but it was pretty fucking cool.
Apeman42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That guy had at least three magic systems going at once. It was a lot.
There was sympathy, which was kind of like voodoo dolls? Sygildry or something which was programming with magic runes. And Naming, which I believe was like grokking something so well you could just command it to do whatever.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I think I was thinking of sympathy when I wrote that comment… It was more than just akin to voodoo, but yeah def similar. I just like how he described the practice of it, and what was going on in Kvothe’s mind as he did it.
Had to look it up, I’m specifically referring to “Alar”: kingkiller.fandom.com/wiki/Alar
Splitting your mind into several parts and being able to hold different, often conflicting, realities as true in order to affect the physical world… Thought that was neat.