Pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson is great since hard magic systems and the inevitable D&D-esque exploration of how broken they can be is sorta his schtick.
Malazan is fantastic, and is probably one of the better "drawing on power from chaotic and potential malevolent alternate realities/gods/eldritch entities" out there.
My favorite is still channeling from Wheel of Time. It's the progenitor of modern hard magic systems in fantasy (like the aforementioned Sanderson stuff) and Robert Jordan's physics background comes out to play again and again through how it works. The interplay of the addictive rush of saidin combined with the sickening poison of the Taint, the AtLA-esque way of weaving different spells together with elemental threads, the mechanics of channeler-vs-channeler fights with combinations of shielding and random chaff attacks to disorient and distract your opponent, and of course the greatest spell ever created and both the cause of and solution to all of life's problems: balefire. Ever killed a motherfucker so hard they stopped existing retroactively?
True. Spirit's definitely the most used of the five (though it's the most useful for fighting other channelers cuz of shields and such), and I think the implication is that lightning is probably the best bang-for-your-buck attack since you're functionally just giving nature a push to kill something for you instead of having to generate a fireball wholesale of your own power.
Pretty much anything by Brandon Sanderson is great since hard magic systems and the inevitable D&D-esque exploration of how broken they can be is sorta his schtick.
Malazan is fantastic, and is probably one of the better "drawing on power from chaotic and potential malevolent alternate realities/gods/eldritch entities" out there.
My favorite is still channeling from Wheel of Time. It's the progenitor of modern hard magic systems in fantasy (like the aforementioned Sanderson stuff) and Robert Jordan's physics background comes out to play again and again through how it works. The interplay of the addictive rush of saidin combined with the sickening poison of the Taint, the AtLA-esque way of weaving different spells together with elemental threads, the mechanics of channeler-vs-channeler fights with combinations of shielding and random chaff attacks to disorient and distract your opponent, and of course the greatest spell ever created and both the cause of and solution to all of life's problems: balefire. Ever killed a motherfucker so hard they stopped existing retroactively?
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True. Spirit's definitely the most used of the five (though it's the most useful for fighting other channelers cuz of shields and such), and I think the implication is that lightning is probably the best bang-for-your-buck attack since you're functionally just giving nature a push to kill something for you instead of having to generate a fireball wholesale of your own power.
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Perrin: It's just a weave.
Egwene: egwene.exe has crashed. Would you like to reboot?
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