Yeah…teleportation rings as a “well, let’s give them a way to get loot and stuff home” turned into "but what if we put one on the Dearven Defender’s shield and the other in front of a ballista back at the keep…ffs…
That’s basically what happened when Brandon Sanderson took over Wheel of Time. He made some creative usage of the portaling magic some people complained.
That tracks but also it’s one of my favorite things about his books. He creates a small well defined magic system and then has his characters attempt to break it in creative ways. All of his long running series are starting to have magic engineers
Yeah…teleportation rings as a “well, let’s give them a way to get loot and stuff home” turned into "but what if we put one on the Dearven Defender’s shield and the other in front of a ballista back at the keep…ffs…
That’s basically what happened when Brandon Sanderson took over Wheel of Time. He made some creative usage of the portaling magic some people complained.
That tracks but also it’s one of my favorite things about his books. He creates a small well defined magic system and then has his characters attempt to break it in creative ways. All of his long running series are starting to have magic engineers