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Dissecting Sanderson's First Law of Magic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video we look into a topic I've wanted to cover for a long time: Sanderson's First Law of Magic.
It's an incredibly valuable rule for any storyteller using magic to solve problems in their stories, but there are some details and nuances that are important to cover. So let's dig into what the law REALLY means for you as a writer and look at some places where it's done well and where it's done poorly.
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So from what I understand about feruchemy he was actually tapping youth not health and that’s why he started rapidly aging. I could be wrong about that but when I read it that part was not confusing, the confusing part for me is when vin drew in the mists.
SPOILERS FOR MISTBORN FIRST TRILOGY
Long time fan. TLR is storing age when he is appearing old, and then taps it constantly with his Atium metalminds. He also has to burn Atium while storing to go through a complicated process known as Compounding. Essentially you are powering Feruchemy with Allomancy. Allomancy being that you call the "magic" or Investiture directly from Preservation into your body and then you store that Investiture into your metalminds in the form of extra youth. Edit: Coming back after I watched the video. The reason TLR withered away so quickly is that Vin stripped away his Atium metal minds that gives him the access to his youth, and he yo-yo'd back to what his body says is his actual age, after a thousand years of life...
What Vin is having done is that she was attuned to Preservation from the beginning and because the Mists are Investiture in a different form (which is why when you burn Tin you can see further in the night through mists which is counter to physics) she is able to pull them in and use the mists to power her allomancy, pull in enough of the mists you get more and more Investiture until you are no longer able to contain that much near infinite power in your physical body.
And I think it says something that I've read the series at least a half-dozen times and never fully understood those details, ESPCIALLY not in the first book
Drawing on the mist is another example of what we're talking about here. Excellent point,@@magus3553 !
Hi, Clark! :) Thank you for the nostalgic smile this video brought on my face. I found you through your blog post on this very topic. Gonna add this video to my Treasury.
Sometimes this kind of stuff can speak of the way stories are told in different times.
We probably are much more nitpicky nowadays :P
This is true. And just because it doesn't follow some nitpicky details doesn't mean it's not a good story. No story is perfect, and we can learn from those small imperfections to try and improve our own imperfect stories :)
@@themagicengineer5314 cheers to that, sir 🥂
Thank you for making these videos!!!
Thanks for watching and commenting! I hope it was helpful
Super easy Example: In Alien 2 there are Explosions and then the extinguishing system is activated and there is a bucket which got very hot in the flames and cracks in half, after it gets cooled down through the water. In the last Act, the Plan is to trap the Alien in some Liquid metal, but the Alien gets out, covered in liquid metal, so the solution is, cool the Alien with Water! and Bingo the Alien Explodes like A Watermelon. And I sat there: "ooh, they hinted at this, so it didnt come out of nowhere"
Excellent example! I haven't seen those movies in a long time, so I'll have to revisit that