I really liked NK Jemisin's Broken Earth series and how much went into make moving earth a function of the world.

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    idk If it's my fav but the mechanics of surgebinding and stormlight usage in Stormlight Archive is cool; subsets of it like Adhesion and Gravitation lashing are as detailed as entire magick systems in other books and there's 12 of them

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      What I like is that while they seem to be different magic systems in his Cosmere meta-series, they are in fact the same and based on the same physical principles. So with a bit of knowledge you can combine them for weird effects.

      So one character in Stormlight is running around looking like they're using a Radiant power when it's something completely different. Another is hacking the area's relative surplus of magic to avoid some complications caused by his homeworld's.