#ars arcanum

[lamaery]

2 - Hunter 

I don’t thinking ever made something for Sixth of the Dusk. But his story and profession as a trapper fits the prompt, so here we are. It was nice to reread the story yesterday.

#cosmere #cosmere inktober #brandon sanderson #sixth of the dusk #ars arcanum #jungle #night #inktober #aviar #cosmere inktober 2023

[oboeonecannoli]

Cosmere Quote

I got my brother a book embosser for Christmas and am going to decorate the box it comes in but I have to pick the quote for the outside........ so y'all get to help

#if you dont read these books you have my blessing to skew poll results by picking your fave #cosmere #brandon sanderson #cfsbf #ars arcanum

[fishalthor]

endless amount of favorite character aesthetics:

“I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know that I survived.” - the way of kings. brandon sanderson

↳ kaladin stormblessed - the stormlight archive by brandon sanderson

#the stormlight archive #kaladin stormblessed #cosmere #brandon sanderson #kaladinedit #stormlightedit #cosmereedit #ars arcanum #litedit #bookedit #literatureedit #*** #endlessfavoritecharacters #i love him so very much #he's everything to me #top tier

[spooky-lestibournes]

If I were to "upload" ALL of my memories into a coppermind, every thought, every experience since birth, I'd effectively create a mental clone of myself. If anyone tapped into that coppermind they'd absorb all of my life experience and the thought process it created. My identity and personality... You could switch bodies with someone else this way... What if you did this with an unkeyed Coppermind and a Lifeless? You could make a mental copy of yourself that survives if your body doesn't, and can be planted in a new body.

#the thoughts that plague me at 3am #cosmere #cfsbf #lifeless #feruchemy #ars arcanum #coppermind #brandon sanderson

[onlycosmere]

Santa-Spren by  Ispago8

#the stormlight archive #rhythm of war #cosmere #cfsbf #brandon sanderson #root #ars arcanum

[cendrilloncd]

ars arcanum is a 13 hit combo

#kingdom hearts #kh #ars arcanum #kingdom hearts 1 #kh1 #organization xiii #xiii

[wyndlerunner]

“It is possible on Scadrial to be born with ability to access both Allomancy and Feruchemy. This has been of special interest to me lately, as the mixing of different types of Investiture has curious effects. One needs only look at what has happened on Roshar to find this manifested — two powers, combined, often have an almost chemical reaction. Instead of being off exactly what you put in, you get something new.”

- Ars Arcanum, Shadows of Self

What does this mean??? What two powers on Roshar have been combined?

Or is this talking about how each order of Radiants have slightly different power sets depending on the pair of surges they have?

#the stormlight archive #cosmere #stormlight archive #mistborn #mistborn era 2 #ars arcanum #shadows of self

[plasmasnake1001]

Ranting about Magic 

In fantasy settings, I both love and hate magic. Over time I've realized my taste and discovered I both love and hate things in conflicting ways. I’m mainly writing this out to just hear my own thoughts but would love to get other people's ideas and solutions. I’ll probably be writing a follow-up where I talked out my ideas for a magic system. 

While I do enjoy magic as a weird thing we can’t comprehend, I also love it more as a tool. I don’t need to know every detail to use a chainsaw, but I need to understand it enough to get it to chop down a tree. I hate when magic is just generic fantasy magic. I love schools of magic, winds of magic, lores of magic, different magic sources, magic from the same materials, and all types of magic, just don’t copy elder scrolls when writing and designing magic for your settings. 

Warhammer Fantasy / AoS 

I love the Warhammer Fantasy Magic color wheel. The 8 lores of magic allow the user to do all types of things, each wind is its own magic system. A beast mage is wild and uses animal parts while a fire mage uses anything that relates to the 'firey aspect'. I really love it when a spell caster of one lore needs to do something the another might could do easily. It rewards good creativity and expression while also not letting every spell caster cast every spell. 

But, that isn't how magic actually works. In the novels, a spell caster can cast any spell, colour be damned. Some spells (or cantrips) are colour-less and one of my favorite pieces of fluff mentions that whatever you're trying to cast, make it relate to your wind to fit better. On the tabletop, there are close to several hundred lores. Many of them don't really reflect the core 8, some could be seen as combinations or alterations, but many would be harder too. It just feels like the winds are only relevant when the story wants to remind you that Games Workshop has copyright over specific names for their magic. 

Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

One of my favorite settings is Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura. I could talk for hours about it, but something I love is that magic affects the world in all types of ways. I love that it explains the rules of how to create fire it alters air pressure which in turn could affect the town steam boiler causing it to explode. In game I love this so much, however, I feel it's too limiting in many ways. I don’t love the ‘magical’ vs ‘technological’ meter. If I’m a diviner, I can see the future, but how does this affect the train? A fire mage may overheat a train and cause problems, it should make guns deal more damage. 

Magitek

Magiteck is basically the exact inverse of Arcanum (even though it uses steam-power like magic), I do like some Magitek systems, I think some can be good but it should never feel like “I have a magic window I can touch buttons on and things happen - please don’t call it a computer cause its not, that word doesn’t exist here.” A lot of them are bad, only a few have done it well. Speaking of both. 

The Cosemere

I've also been a fan of the Cosmere for this past year. I really like how a lot of the magic systems work. Not all of it is perfect, and some of it can be a bit cheesy. But I really like the way the different magic systems interact, how some systems do the same thing but different, or some are just the exact same abilities. I love how many abilities are ‘you can do this one thing’ and seeing how the wielder comes up with more and more interesting ways to use magic. I also love some of the ‘science’ of it. Some forces work together, others apart. 

This is also a personal one that I go back and forth on, but not a fan of magic that is just “learn the magic word, and do the spell, it's like computer scripting” especially if there aren’t limits on the words themselves. 

I don’t want to spend a lot of time, but I could write a lot about what I dislike about the Cosemeres magic systems. This isn’t a ‘magic shouldn’t have rules’ rant but as someone who has read every book and enjoyed them dearly and is basically “if I wrote this magic, I would do X different for Y reasons.” 

DnD Barbarians 

This is just a weird personal one, but when I’m building a character. I always try to make one that can use that setting's magic. So I would never pick a barbarian or a fighter. I’ve seen some settings that do some cool stuff by giving them weird magic systems or abilities and that is something I would like to see more of. 

In concussion 

I don’t really know. This is longer than I wanted it to be. I really wrote this cause I just feel my Tumblr needs something and I have a writing degree I only use to grade papers and write emails, but I’ll probably be writing a follow-up later this week breaking down magic for a setting I am always working in. I’m sure if you read that you’ll find contradictions, inaccuracies, or things that seem to be copied directly from the examples above and maybe others I’m missing.

#warhammer #cosmere #Ars Arcanum #arcanum of steamworks and magick obscura #Magic #ttrpg #world building

[transcyer]

Ars Arcanum is always interesting to listen through. I appreciate that it's impossible to become a allomantic and feruchemical compounder via hemalurgy.

#the lost metal #spoilers #Ars Arcanum

[rcs-most-eligible]

Round 1: Vote for your favourite babygirl~

Men with scars and an eye catching smirk~

#rc polls #romance club poll tournament #rc #romance club #ares #rc ares #rage of the titans #rc rott #seth #rc seth #arcanum #rcsmosteligible #mod 🐭

[fortune-maiden]

why are books so expensive T_T

#don't mind me having a moment #grabby hand motions at Emperor's Soul #so torn about this one #(when i say expensive i mean the same price as any other paperback really... but it's a novella and i have an ebook copy) #and to make matters worse(?) it's also included in full in another short story collection that is around the same price #but it's something i want on my shelf as a standalone even if it's not remotely worth it over the ebook or the ars arcanum collection #anyway this is my rec to read The Emperor's Soul because it's short but very good #and it's inspired me to write a fic which i will get to eventually maybe

[simonstamenovic]

okay no googling actual stormlight things im not sure i care unless maya is telling me dont say u think my spren "dispersed" into "investiture" that shit is for scholars with a weird gay thing going on.

#outgoing transmission #one day maybe the ars arcanum will make sense to me but that day is NOT today #cosmere post #just looked up mayalaran in a chat also it wasn't google but yk. fr the sake of brevity

[mistninja]

And after a grand total of SEVEN epilogues, mistborn era 2 is finally over

#i will read the ars arcanum later #i have thoughts and opinions and FEELINGS #who would have thought era 2 would manage to give me feelings huh. i didnt see that coming

[fragmentsofsorrow]

revenge value :3

I have yet to use revenge value in a fic but now I'm thinking about in-universe reactions to revenge value dependent loops or cheese strats

#q&a #ozara13 #I'm just imagining Roxas watching from inside Sora's heart #as Sora fights Data Roxas with Ars Arcanum strats or something #and just getting so frustrated because it's not even a fight at this point #like in the actual moment he fought so hard to not have to go back to Sora #and Sora's just reliving that moment over and over but with Roxas having less of a chance #Roxas is learning the fight just as much as Sora is #but for him it means knowing he's about to watch himself retaliate while Sora's invincible only for Sora to hit him out of the attack again #OH WHOOPS I MADE IT HURT

[loxli]

Soriku Week 2023: Day 3

Ars Arcanum | Datascape

#sorikuweek2023 #soriku #Sora x Riku #kingdom hearts #kh #DATA BOYS DATA BOYS

[nikutsuneart]

Day 3: Ars Arcanum | Datascape

I accidentally drew two very different data flavors

#kingdom hearts #soriku #sora x riku #sorikuweek2023 #re:coded #i started the moody one then my brain turned off and i drew the cute one #then my brain turned back on and i drew the other one anyway #so you get two today I guess