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In which we ramble on.
And by we, I mean me.

Short Story Time Again!

4/4/2018

165 Comments

 
I know I should be sharing Of Kings and Killers updates here. Soon, my children, soon. But instead of that, I'll be writing another short story this month!

In the comments, let me know if you think it should be Elder Empire, Cradle, or something new. I have relatively more Traveler's Gate stories out there, plus the last story was a Simon story, so I want to switch it up.

Let me know which you'd prefer!

​-Will

EDIT: After three weeks of isolation (that still haven't ended yet, btw, because writing is never over), I glance down at this comment section to find...that Cradle is the clear winner! Raise your hand if you're surprised!
165 Comments
Faris
4/4/2018 06:22:25 pm

Cradle story.

TBH, I'd prefer another Traveler's Gate/Simon story, but I guess we have had plenty of them.

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Pickle
4/4/2018 06:23:01 pm

Cradle!

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Elfishpirat
4/4/2018 06:26:11 pm

1342% in favor of another Simon story!

But if you insist on torturing us with your beautiful, slightly demented mind....Cradle.

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Adaen
4/4/2018 06:31:30 pm

I would love more Cradle content. Anything and everything to be honest. Maybe more about The Nethergate, or maybe the aftermath report on the School. There is just so much awesome in the Cradle stories anything would be great to me. Thanks!

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Sean K
4/4/2018 06:32:04 pm

Fisher Gisha! Fisher Gisha!! I'd love something like a scene that happens while Lindon is in the black flame trials and some guy hits on her in a bar, or something like that! Or maybe a scene from her youth when she reached High Gold or something!

Or maybe when she made her first drudge! I wonder if the first one was a spider?! OOOHHH, how a fisher got fascinated with spiders! She does seem to be the only one!

Anything with Fisher Gisha and I'm happy!

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Adam
4/19/2018 06:14:31 pm

I want to know why she is so against pushing the limits with lindon. You know she lost someone important to pushing things too far too fast.

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Ravi
4/4/2018 06:35:34 pm

While I'd love an EE story, I think you should whet the Cradle appetites. Maybe a story from the POV of a Monarch? Or the EME?

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Elliot
4/8/2018 02:34:08 am

Seconded!

The upper-upper-ad infinitum echelon power structure of the Cradle is so interesting! I always love stories that deal with these characters at the top not as incomprehensible gods, but characters with wants and needs, their power just another mechanism to warp story and fiction. (Will does this so well!)

(Go Will!)

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Daniel
4/9/2018 06:11:31 am

Cradle!

You should do a POV of a monarch, or even an abidan member, or possibly a lindon story, or sword sage apprentice( suddenly forgot her name) origin story. Basically cradle.

Dan
4/10/2018 03:32:04 pm

Either a Monarch or something about what's happened in Sacred valley since Lindon left.

Especially ELDER WHISPER. We had a POV chapter from Whisper and he/she/it premonition of the dreadgods.

Just how far above the jades of sacred valley is Elder Whisper? What's the motivation? Why locked in the tower?

GRIFF
4/12/2018 11:17:51 am

I also think it should be something about ELDER WHISPER. Maybe something about when he visited the TORCHYARD, and what it is.

Mark C
4/4/2018 06:37:40 pm

Cradle.

I always think of pokemon when i think of cradle for a couple reasons. Maybe an epic blastotoise / Orthos battle for lolz :)

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1SavageCabbage
4/5/2018 06:15:37 am

i second this

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Skulldragon7
4/30/2018 07:22:36 am

How about turtonator?

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Andrew
4/4/2018 06:44:31 pm

The last time you did something new Cradle happened... so yeah I'd love something new, you have a great track record of creating really unique settings.

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Diego
4/4/2018 06:51:07 pm

I would love to see something new.

Out of curiosity. Do you have a criteria to meet when making new worlds or is it random?

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Sam S
4/4/2018 06:55:50 pm

Cradle please!

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Your Benevolent Dictator link
4/4/2018 06:56:48 pm

cradle short stories of Lindon and Yerin doing normal things

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Icoret
4/4/2018 07:19:16 pm

Seconded, please give us that slice of life goodness

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Totally not YBD trying to make it look like more people want this for the short story
4/4/2018 07:40:52 pm

I also agree and I am definitely not Your Benevolent Dictator

Firebringer
4/4/2018 11:39:22 pm

If you go this route I would like Yerin and Lindon to visit the barber shop together. That way we can finally settle THE GREAT DEBATE.

WHAT DOES YERIN'S HAIR ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE?

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Your Benevolent Dictator
4/5/2018 03:56:08 am

Read the books it tells you in there

Firebringer
4/5/2018 10:33:54 am

No. I don't know how to read.

Calefacient
4/5/2018 10:48:40 am

I didn't even know how badly I wanted this. I was just thinking a normal day for other Cradle inhabitants would be neat but this is so much better!

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Mestama
4/5/2018 11:32:38 am

I want to see Lindon realize that he has essentially infinite spending money. He would have to save up for major purchases of course, but it would be awesome for him to reach into his pocket, forge some scales, and pay for anything reasonable.

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Not Michael
4/7/2018 01:26:28 pm

Yessssssss

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Icoret
4/4/2018 07:07:33 pm

Got to vote for Cradle here. I'd love to see more of that world more than anything else.

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Decadakon
4/4/2018 07:08:30 pm

Cradle story please

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JM
4/4/2018 07:12:37 pm

Cradle

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Kaden
4/4/2018 07:15:41 pm

A EE story would be a good appetizer for the coming storm. Failing that something new would be amazing to get your creative mind from falling into a rut.

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Mitch
4/4/2018 07:44:51 pm

Cradle! I've been feeling the withdrawl. Maybe something about Orthos.

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Gordon
4/5/2018 01:59:07 am

Like this idea a lot - maybe something from when Orthos was young and first introduced to cycling Blackflame? How did he learn the techniques?

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Your Benevolent Dictator
4/5/2018 03:57:05 am

He learned them by being a dragon turtle

I Need an Idiot’s Guide to the Willverse
4/5/2018 06:02:05 am

YES! We need a story from Orthos’ perespective! All other suggestions are negligible!

...

Well, I mean, I guess there are other valid suggestions, but still...

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Scott Nichols
4/19/2018 12:35:12 am

No, cycle Black Flame and say it again!

Sean
4/7/2018 10:23:54 pm

Agreed! Something from Orthos' perspective would be awesome, though honestly I'm dying for anything new from Cradle and would gladly take anything from there.

All your books are awesome, Will, but Cradle remains my favorite series overall

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Dragon
4/4/2018 07:53:44 pm

Something new please

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Oren Velciter
4/4/2018 08:02:31 pm

Cradle. Random cool path in a unique part of the world. Perhaps show off a cool sacred beast

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Extesian
4/4/2018 08:02:52 pm

New fan Will, finally read all your books. I've seen references to Elder Empire selling less and I haven't found much fan obsession with it. So I want to represent on behalf of the Elder fans that must be out there.
I think they are some of the finest fantasy works I've read and they are my favorite of yours. Cradle will be amazing and I love the wider Willverse material. But the split perspective stories is utter genius in Elder. The final ones are the thing I look forward to the most, more than more Cradle.
So keep our small Empire fandom happy, please release a short story from Asylum.
And my thanks for sticking with an amazing and and glorious worldbuilding despite not enough people recognising its genius :)

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FORGOTTEN ELDER FAN
4/4/2018 08:28:00 pm

I couldn't agree more! I also vote EE for the short story, I miss Shera (and our other elder empire friends)

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Samwise
4/4/2018 11:03:54 pm

I would also vote for the Elder Empire, but I don't want to force you to write even more Elder Empire when I know you're feverishly working on the Elder Empire as it is. So I will put my vote for a silly Cradle story.

Unless that is you have an Elder Empire chapter/scene that you already wrote but have decided to delete.

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Kaden
4/5/2018 08:42:10 pm

While I do love the idea of an EE short story I am reminded that Will is in fact human, so I must for the health of this miracle worker we so cherish... Agree with this post.

Olive
4/14/2018 02:32:13 am

While a cradle story about ElderWhisperer is really tempting... I’m an EE fan too... choices...

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Cradle/Travelers gate
4/4/2018 08:40:18 pm

Honestly, I just reread travelers gate and that is what I want.

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Nate
4/4/2018 10:39:08 pm

I'm in Cradle withdrawals. Gimme a fix you bastard.

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Godking of the Outer Lithosphere
4/4/2018 10:57:46 pm

I shall once again put forward the suggestion of something new.

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Pornomancer
4/4/2018 10:59:08 pm

I would suggest you try writing a LitRPG short story. And not just so I can continue attempting to recruit you into our cult... er... writing group.

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Mr.Dude
4/24/2018 07:29:26 pm

I think the idea is interesting, but Cradle has elements of a LitRPG already. Considering the interesting settings that Will has, a traditional LitRPG structure could limit his options. I don't think that this is a bad idea, however it might be better if he wrote it without admitting the setting was in a game.

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Corey link
4/4/2018 11:43:06 pm

I'mma have to go with Cradle as well :)

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One thousand eyes staring at your very soul
4/4/2018 11:59:52 pm

I didn’t count, but as I skimmed through the above comments, it looks like half the people want Cradle. So yes, Cradle is fun, but we already have a lot of Cradle, just like we have a lot of Traveler’s Gate. So why not something from the Elder Empire? For those of us eagerly awaiting Of Kings and Killers/Of Killers and Kings, I think anything from the Elder Empire will calm us a down a bit and sooth our nerves. That’s my opinion, and if no one else likes it, too bad.
Go Elder Empire!!!!
Oh, and Will, if you decide to do something from Elder Empire, my personal preference would be a story with Bliss when she was young. Or maybe how she joined the Blackwatch. Or—or—or—Yeah, just anything with Bliss. Keep up the good work!

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Roonling
4/5/2018 01:17:07 am

Cradle cradle cradle. Something with Eithan or Fisher Gesha

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Jayceblk
4/5/2018 01:34:10 am

Something new would be my vote.

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Paradigm
4/5/2018 02:31:42 am

I for one would like to see and Elder empire story, possibly one featuring the Emperor while he is supressing a rebellion or him fighting against some elders, hell I would love to see the guy fight a bunch of champions.

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Paradigm
4/7/2018 04:24:24 pm

Or alternatively if Cradle wins out I would love to have something on Reigan Shen and his path of the King's key.

I would love to see a story about him doing his thing or people getting together trying to kill(or imprison if he cannot be killed)him.

Totally would love to see what his path is about and what Madra he uses.

A sotry set in the Niencloud court could be very interesting too just to see how things work in another part of Cradle, especially one that advanced.

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Clint
4/5/2018 03:33:07 am

Oh wise and benevolent Wight! Grace us with your tales from beyond time and space! Your humble servant requests knowledge of the process of a being rising to the ranks of the Abidan! Not necessarily a being we are familiar with! But of course, at your discretion!

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Joe
4/5/2018 05:57:57 am

Since we've got OKAK coming up next, I would say either Cradle or something new. I wouldn't mind a short about life on some other iteration, or about the day-to-day of a member of the Abidan. Or maybe someone who has ascended but hasn't joined the Abidan?

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Anil Kadam
4/5/2018 06:21:53 am

Cradle, would be interesting to know what happened to Fisher Gisha after Lindon joined the Skysworn as she dropped off the radar

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blubberfish
4/5/2018 06:45:24 am

Cradle please!

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Astoroth link
4/5/2018 07:23:34 am

Can we get a story about the organisation on cradle who min/max ironbodies, paths, and cycling techniques?

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Nikk B
4/5/2018 07:34:12 am

I vote for Travelers Gate! But.. since Demons may erupt from some dark portal of sentient horror... My second vote is for Cradle. Anything Cradle.

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Kevib
4/5/2018 09:22:33 am

Elders. Always elders.

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Brown of lee
4/5/2018 09:23:37 am

An epic battle between orthos and the rogue blackflame

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ad
4/5/2018 10:04:27 am

The story leading up to where orthos had to push himself to hard vs a rogue blackflame would be great!

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God of the Tower
4/5/2018 10:05:37 am

Cradle short story! Or an Abidan short story about the lower level members or a story about how the wander left amalgam... Unless that's too spoilery?

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Pizzatime
4/5/2018 11:26:01 am

Cradle Short Story focused around Little Blue!

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Evil Kevin
4/5/2018 12:02:06 pm

I think it would be nice to see a new world added to the Willverse. If that's not possible then I would like a short story on The Wanderer in Elder Empire.

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Polycore
4/5/2018 12:14:58 pm

The origins of the feud between Northstrider and the god of the desert.

That would be sweet.

Otherwise, a story about one of Cradle's most famous fight?

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Polycore
4/5/2018 12:21:52 pm

Or just a defining moment in Cradle existence really, it could be to see what inspired a future monarch or even a political moment (with the ninecloud court for instance) :)

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Diego
4/10/2018 05:24:32 pm

Northstrider is on a Blood path. It seems like he eats dragons and uses their power. So in my head I'm almost sure he's the evil one whom has killed several dragons and the god of the desert wants him dead for this reason.

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Hutciaj01
4/5/2018 12:24:03 pm

I'd love to see another death match

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manty05
4/5/2018 12:56:46 pm

I'll vote for cradle, though I wouldn't mind something new either.
Ror suggestions a story of the final journey of the Sword sage or a day of Lindon's family before his departure.
For something new how about a story of Suriel's home world/iteration.

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Morningstar
4/5/2018 02:17:38 pm

I recalled Fisher Gesha telling Lindon way back in Soulsmith:

"Do you know what happened to the last man who kept me waiting? Hm? I married him. That's a threat.”


I think it would be cool to see that story.

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garbagiel the raccoon
4/5/2018 02:43:20 pm

Something new! Or something/somewhere new on a world we've already seen.

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Andrew Cogan
4/5/2018 02:46:10 pm

Cradle please.

How about a story from the Arelius homeland?

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We are all Andrew Rowe
4/5/2018 03:14:57 pm

Give us the Andrew Rowe x Andrew Rowe crossover we all wish for!

What was Simon doing in Sufficiently Advanced Magic? How did he get there?

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Scott Nichols
4/19/2018 12:29:58 am

Not going to lie, this would be cool. Literally ten minutes before writing this I finished a reread of city of light while having sufficiently advanced magic paused on audible. Crossovers are the best, so much potential there.

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Someone doing something
4/5/2018 03:51:20 pm

I’ve seen several people say that, since OKAK is coming soon, let’s have something other than EE. But think about it—we haven’t had anything, aside from Santa’s List (which hardly counts), from EE in forever. I would really like something to get me in the EE mode. I know I could just go read the books, but new stories always do the trick on a greater scale. Please, please, PLEASE do something from EE!

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Waffles
4/5/2018 07:50:28 pm

I would love another story about Reigan Shen, or really another cradle would just be fantastic

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Waffles
4/5/2018 07:53:31 pm

Or maybe a story about one of the prisoners/guards of the prison on the Iceflower continent

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William
4/5/2018 08:04:46 pm

It has to be Cradle.

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Joel link
4/6/2018 06:53:08 am

I'm currently in a reread of Cradle.

And while I'm in love with the world and the characters,

I'm going to vote for a new setting altogether. Short stories have awesome potential to create an amazing concept.

I'd love to see what you would write in the biopunk genre.

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Eric Epping
4/6/2018 07:01:58 am

Cradle! For sure Cradle!

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Devin
4/6/2018 08:13:53 am

Either a Cradle story about someone visiting that Dawnspring Archive you mentioned, or and EE story about Jorin

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Samuel L. Jackson
4/6/2018 12:27:45 pm

A Cradle story about a Sacred Artist with multiple cores, like Lindon.

Settle the many-core debate once and for all!

Can you in fact be a strong sacred artist with many cores?

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Your Faithful Subject
4/6/2018 01:27:36 pm

If you could be so kind as to have another cradle story.

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Viparash
4/6/2018 01:52:23 pm

Lindon and Yerin SoL story would be neat.

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A miniscule cupcake in the fridge
4/6/2018 03:55:24 pm

Cradle, Cradle, Cradle, Cradle…………WHY!?!?!
Don’t get me wrong, I love Cradle. But I’d really like to see some Elder Empire. It’s been sooooooooo long! But if not, I guess I can wait until OKAK comes out.
Keep it up, Will! Love your books!

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Mason
4/6/2018 08:40:37 pm

Cradle short story 100%

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Ruff
4/7/2018 06:49:31 am

Cradle! I would love to hear a short on a location that we might see in the future. Or on a certain sage and how came about he to a certain valley

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Hjorth link
4/7/2018 06:53:01 am

Please just something Cradle, I need my fix man... :( (if you want this sad face to be a happy face, make a cradle short story!)

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Cheese guy
4/7/2018 09:42:21 am

Cradle can you do some the with jai long after he leaves

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I Need an Idiot’s Guide to the Willverse
4/7/2018 10:10:19 am

Well, this is my comment on the comments. I like Cradle and EE, so I’d be happy with either. An Orthos story would be pretty cool at some point in the future:)
I’d be interested to see what you could do to introduce a new world in under 10 pages, but I’m thinking that I’d prefer for you to introduce a new world in a full book (so you can explain it more naturally).
But, the best suggestion I’ve seen (at least, I think I saw it. I can’t find it anymore.) is to write a story about the Wanderer in Asylum. Unless, of course, you’re saving that type of scene for an entire Valinhall prequel...

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Awesompossum
4/8/2018 07:48:48 pm

Oooh! I like your last suggestion! I'll second that!

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Path of the Broken Dream
4/7/2018 11:21:52 am

Cradle, please! Been dying for more Cradle stuff.

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Kevin
4/7/2018 12:41:24 pm

Cradle for sure.

I'd love to see something about Suriel's backstory. Either from her "mortal" life, or pre-Suriel Abidan time—maybe how she transcended (if that's not a spoiler), how she became Suriel, or her friendship with Ozriel (though I could see that being a spoiler).

Also, side question that's been bugging me since Skysworn came out--
In the who-would-win-in-a-fight comments, you mentioned that (what we now know as) monarchs are five levels above Eithan. We know Overlord, Archlord, Herald, and Monarch. Is there a rank immediately above or below Herald, or were you counting Sage in that?

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kaden
4/24/2018 10:01:23 pm

Sage is a break off path so no not that. I'm willing to bet their is a rank after Archlord before Herald that is probably some monarchical term.

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John
4/7/2018 03:34:13 pm

Will, write a Cradle story that will show them once and for all that Lindon will NOT split his core again!

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Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/7/2018 03:50:53 pm

Lindon totally is going to split his core again, I'll tell you that right now. It's obvious that Will has been building up to it.

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John
4/7/2018 03:52:22 pm

It makes no logical sense to split his core again. That would just make him "half a sacred artist", like he was before. I trust that Will isn't an idiot and sees this.

Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/7/2018 03:53:31 pm

Actually it would make no sense NOT to split his core again. Blackflame isn't a very versatile path. It doesn't even have a forger technique, and forging is one of Lindon's passions.

John
4/7/2018 03:54:43 pm

He needs to be a monarch to save Sacred Valley. He's not going to become a monarch by cutting his power base in half again and again.

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Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/7/2018 03:57:05 pm

But the thing is, he *doesn't* have to be a monarch. He just needs to be able to repel a Dreadgod. Which means being able to do things on the monarch level of power.

This doesn't mean he needs to be a blackflame monarch. He can be an archlord forger who can create a monarch-level weapon specifically designed to counter the dreadgod that's going to destroy Sacred Valley.

John
4/7/2018 03:59:19 pm

That would be a horrible ending for the series. He needs to reach the monarch level of power and defeat a dreadgod because that's the end-goal for the story. Splitting his core would slow him down on that path.

Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/7/2018 04:02:50 pm

I don't think it would be a horrible ending. But on that note, who says that it has to be the end? Maybe Saving Sacred Valley is just goal one step on a journey that will take Lindon throughout Abidan levels of power and beyond.

But regardless, I think you're too fixed in this mindset that he has to advance the way Sacred Artists normally do. Lindon's not about that kind of training. He likes cheats, and he needs to power up fast.

The Power of Heart isn't going to get Lindon to the monarch level. Being creative and taking the less-traveled path? Possibly.

John
4/7/2018 04:08:53 pm

Splitting his core again is just a stupid idea in general. Who wants to read about a story where the main character has all of the powers in the world?

I understand that a lot of readers on here are teenagers, but you have to understand that Superman is the most boring character. He can do everything, so why does the plot matter?

Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/7/2018 04:15:02 pm

There have been plenty of recent Superman movies that were very well received. All-Star Superman or Superman vs. The Elite for example.


Even if Lindon reaches the level where he has every type of madra in existence, he still wont have unlimited powers. He'll only be able to do things that madra is capable of. His power would be limited to the ability to use any kind of madra, which is still a pretty big limitation, considering there's things like Soulfire and the Way.

Regardless, his is partially inspired by Xianxia stories, which means we are being promised a main character who reaches the highest heights of power. Not some mediocre martial artist who peaks at Highgold and then dies in his sleep sixty years later. Frankly, *not* reaching a Superman-esq level of power would be breaking the big story promise that got many of us to start reading Cradle in the first place.

Hjorth
4/8/2018 06:07:51 am

Just because other books in this genre likes to make to the main character into everyman the awesome, doesn't mean that Lindon is going to become that. Why not actually advance, and Forge some stuff that includes bindings from other paths, instead of just learning every path?

Divine Emperor of the Lower Troposphere
4/8/2018 08:20:09 pm

That would be fine if becoming awesome wasn't the story promise made to us during the first few chapters of Unsouled.

I didn't start reading this to see somebody become moderately good at martial arts and then die in his sleep sixty years latter.

Nick
4/7/2018 10:27:15 pm

Write a story about how a stupid debate about whether a character in a fictional story should split his sandwich into two or four half's, and how that debate keeps spreading and spreading until it engulfs everyone around it. First is appears on reddit, then it spreads to discord. And then it spreads to the authors blog!

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TBoy
4/7/2018 10:28:44 pm

I don't think Will is into writing non-fiction.

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garbagiel the raccoon
4/10/2018 02:24:32 pm

Halves or quarters is fine, but do they agree upon what direction to cut in? There are those who cut the sandwich horizontally and/or vertically, and there are anarchists who cut diagonally.

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Jason Briggs
4/7/2018 10:50:05 pm

Cradle Please , just can't get enough , you could make them 800 odd pages if you like it would still seem to short

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Important Question
4/8/2018 12:00:45 am

Hey Will how many Cradle books can we expect in total? Twenty books? Forty books? Eighty books?

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Sean
4/8/2018 09:39:36 pm

Will once told me in an email he was planning on roughly 12 (is it okay for me to share that Will?) But that number was not set in stone, just depends on how long it takes to tell the story!

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Important Question
4/10/2018 01:27:20 pm

Usually stories grow in the telling, so hopefully we get 120 books or more.

NATHAN
4/10/2018 01:29:50 pm

Hopefully Will buys a fancy car and takes out a large mortgage. Cradle sells the best so if he's desperate for money he'll write more Cradle books.

Edmund
4/8/2018 12:37:37 am

Could we have some more EE, please?

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Chicknbiscut
4/8/2018 09:54:14 am

If I gotta wait for the real book til after EE then a cradle short story will have to suffice in the mean time.

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Steve
4/8/2018 08:21:42 pm

Sooooo... OKAK... Is there a reason why one's "the last" and the other is "the third"? It makes one assume something bad's happening to everyone's favorite assassin.

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Paden
4/9/2018 07:07:05 am

Cradleeee

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Micah
4/9/2018 01:57:09 pm

It'd be sick if you gave us a little bit more insight into the lives of the founding of Sacred Valley - how it came to be separate and hidden from the rest of the Cradle world.

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Melody
4/9/2018 04:13:36 pm

A Cradle story please!

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gorge19
4/9/2018 06:22:06 pm

What if Lindon doesn't have to become a monarch in order to save sacred valley? Throughout the series we've seen him wreak absolute havoc on the Abidan's predictions, I believe it likely that he ends up changing things up so much in Cradle that the Dreadgod attack ends up being just another part of the story setting up for some other cool and unexpected ending.
Speculations aside, I think it would be cool for Will to write a story on one of those Abidan predictions that never came to happen.

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Adarsh
4/9/2018 07:59:32 pm

This is very interesting. It should be something major though.

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Rick
4/10/2018 01:31:44 pm

Will you should write a dungeon story like Divine dungeon or spells of old.

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Finn
4/10/2018 01:48:39 pm

How about the Abidan banishing the Elders or whatever they’re called of Shadow and Sea

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garbagiel the raccoon
4/10/2018 02:01:36 pm

That'd be awesome

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Sally (Not the Bow)
4/11/2018 08:43:33 am

I know Will doesn't like it much, but I'd like to see a romance story. Liek Simon and that girl from the short story. OR Lindon and someone from the Cradle World... she is anyone gets jealous of another girl flirting with Lindon..

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Sally (NOT THE BOW)
4/11/2018 08:44:46 am

*See if anyone gets jealous, I meant to type. Evil Typo Demons!

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TBoy
4/11/2018 12:09:48 pm

Well, we did recently learn that Will holds the secret title "Master of Erotica".

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Knight of Sorrows
4/11/2018 03:37:29 pm

The story of the second Lowgold

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Watchcry
4/11/2018 10:34:22 pm

Cradle please.

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Dracolitch
4/12/2018 09:56:09 am

Will is currently engaged in a prajñā-like state of epiphany. This is why he has withdrawn into secluded meditation.

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LIAR
4/13/2018 01:20:54 pm

Cradle please. Perhaps from the perspective of an emissary from Redmoon Hall or something equivalent from another dreadgod to understand what the hell they are thinking ?

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David
4/13/2018 08:48:21 pm

I don’t particularly care which series it’s from, I’m just excited for more content. That being said, I’d love to see something more personal from one of the characters. Like Leah visiting her sister imprisoned in Lirial or something like that.

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Ethan
4/14/2018 02:14:42 pm

Do you play DnD?

PS I am a student of our lord and savior Tomko.

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Exhausted madra channel
4/16/2018 05:18:18 am

Cradle please! Perhaps about what live was for Ozriel in Cradle. Or from a new character reaching a milestone and being offered a position in the Abidan. Or background on the sacred beast that gives a Cradle family their bloodline powers. Or baby Orthos, saw it suggested several times.

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I Know who you are Will
4/16/2018 08:38:58 pm

Hello Will!

How about you write a series of short stories about a fictional family in Georgia where each family member has a crippling personality flaw, where each of them builds on the others.

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bill
4/17/2018 09:54:31 am

anything Cradle would be very welcome indeed....:^)

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Jason Paragon
4/17/2018 04:42:26 pm

Cradle please!

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Chris
4/17/2018 08:30:20 pm

You probably won’t see this but maybe tell a story about the greatest thief in cradles history

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Dichloro Methane
4/17/2018 11:08:10 pm

I would like to read another story about this "Will Wight" character who was featured in the last deathmatch.

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Scott Nichols
4/19/2018 12:18:22 am

Not going to lie, I did not give due diligence to all the comments above so if this idea has already been perpetrated then forgive me. I'd love a cradle story but specifically I want the story from Jai Long's perspective when he gets to sacred valley with Jai Chen. He's bound to come into contact with the Wei clan sooner rather than later, what's going through his mind when he realizes that not only is this Lindon's home but it's also his family. What happens when they just so happen to run across a somewhat famous soulsmith from the Wei clan when they need something to help Jai Chen stabilize her core. What happens when Jai Chen realizes that soulsmith is the mother of her future love interest (come on, right).

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Ben
4/19/2018 03:48:32 am

I'll take anything to be honest. Need more.

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kaden
4/19/2018 06:35:39 am

Are there any paths that focus on longevity?

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Diego
4/19/2018 09:45:00 am

Well... I imagine you could build one from scratch depending on what you mean by Logevity. Advancing pretty much makes your body more efficient in all aspects.

Depending on what you mean you could just get an Iron Body like either Lindons and follow a life or blood path that focuses on healing. This way you can maybe fight back old age and your Natural regeneration would also help keep you in peek form.

On the other hand you could get that Nifty Crimson furnace body Will mentioned once. It maximizes benefits from anything you consume. Including pills and elixers. This would help you advance quicker making your body more efficient faster.

*Remember once you get to a certain level your body basically just won't age.

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I’M NOT THAT GUY
4/19/2018 10:13:29 am

We need a Cradle story. More specifically, a Cradle story involving an Abidan member being required to recruit the strongest sacred artist currently on Cradle because he/she has become to powerful to reside there any longer. It’d be fun if this person was also kind of a dick who doesn’t want to leave because they have the maturity level of a pre-teen and they are having too much fun spawn camping the lowbie areas of his domain.

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GUY
4/19/2018 10:23:08 am

This could be someone new not in Suriel’s vision because of his/her impending departure. Also the guy/girl is a dick. Best not to expose poor innocent London to such deplorable behavior.

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DesprateFan
4/19/2018 05:49:28 pm

*pokes Will*

Do a new trick!

(Unless you're writing, in which case you keep doing you.)

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Will link
4/25/2018 05:28:12 am

"That's my secret, Cap. I'm always writing."
--The Sulk

...no, but for real, I HAVE been writing this last couple of weeks. Writing like a madman.

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Argenteus
4/20/2018 07:33:54 am

Cradle, Will
The answer is always Cradle !!!

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cradle hungry
4/20/2018 01:20:05 pm

Or a POV from a sacred tree that wakes every few centuries and has recorded the evolution cycle in cradle

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Dan
4/20/2018 05:18:34 pm

How about a cross-over between Traveler's Gate and Cradle?

Maybe the Territories and Vailinhall rooms are dead worlds/dimensions that became disconnected from the Way but are still powerful enough in their own right that they maintain an internal order?

You could have all kinds of fun with things like Yerin sparing with Chaka,

Lindon could try to steal some Nye Essence.

Ethian could talk circles around Simon and he'd just mumble back.

Alin could insist Orthos is an Elysian Beast.

Fisher Gesha would try to dissect one of Simon's dolls thinking it was a crazy construct of some kind.

Endless possibilities.

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Nickolodian
4/21/2018 12:08:05 am

A crossover could be fun. Or you could pay back Anrew Rowe for his cameo of Simon by having a Suficiently Advanced Magic cameo.

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manty05
4/21/2018 02:45:07 pm

By the way what kind of coloring does Orthos have. I always thought of him as being mainly black with different shades of brown and some parts glowing red or yellow(when using techniques or enraged).

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garbagiel the raccoon
4/23/2018 07:54:30 am

If you're still somehow strapped for ideas, I just recalled a discussion from a while back regarding how possible it would be for a blade of grass to get to abidan level. Perhaps a story about how such a thing might happen?

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kaden
4/23/2018 05:13:51 pm

Is it just me or is anyone else worried that Will promises a short story then disappears for 20 days...

I realize he doesn't post that often but a short story is supposed to be something quick and easy for him like a brain refresher if you will. This has never happened before, also usually he says he is going to write a short story then 1-7 days later we have it via email.

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DesprateFan
4/23/2018 06:44:08 pm

On Reddit he said he went underground to get a lot of writing done, so I'm pretty sure we don't have to worry that he got murdered by the angry anti-core-split sect or pro-core-split clan.

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TBoy
4/23/2018 06:50:44 pm

Yeah I get the feeling that Will is trying to finish OKAK quickly. The Cradle dissenters are growing more and more unstable by the day.

Plus the past three or four months were more anomaly than normal occurrence. Will doesn't usually chat quite this much. It was probably slowing him down. This is just a return to the norm.

ALFRED
4/23/2018 06:58:22 pm

Actually I heard there was a serial killer in Tampa, Florida. Somewhere on this blog it says Will lives in Florida. Maybe Will got shot again!


Or maybe Will is doing ninja-research for Shera. He's spending nights jumping from rooftop to rooftop and taking people down with ninja-skills.

Our second hypothesis will be proven if we later hear about a pirate on the loose in Tampa, Florida.

Rodger
4/24/2018 01:01:50 am

Why does everyone always assume that Will is dead at the first sign of trouble?

Will is a healthy adult male, the odds of him dying unexpectedly are actually quite low.

Kaden
4/24/2018 08:30:14 am

Thanks Despratefan, and Rodger dude all I was saying that while Will is usually unpredictable he normally follows a pattern when a short story is published. This time something is off, at the time I was not aware of will's reddit post so I was slightly worried.

Will link
4/25/2018 05:27:08 am

Yeah, sorry about the unexpected disappearance, but it's unrelated to the short story. In three weeks of pure writing, I can get most of a novel done; a short story isn't even worth mentioning.

I'm also not sure what Reddit post they're talking about. I don't remember going on Reddit at all this past couple of weeks.

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DesprateFam
4/25/2018 05:30:14 am

You commented on a meme I think.

Sword Immortal Darknorth
4/27/2018 09:54:27 am

Daoist Wight Will nodded as his enemies faces paled. They could only swallow their envy in the face of this monstrous talent!

Other peerless talents may agonize over a short story for days and gain great face for finishing a novel in in the time it takes for a thousand incense sticks to burn.

But for a monstrous talent like Daoist Wight, he can completely finish a novel in the time it takes to boil a cup of tea! A short story simply isn't even worth mentioning.


Sorry, that last post sounded like a translated wuxia story though.




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