Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
Thoughts about fixing the Inheritance magic system
Mar. 13th, 2026 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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antishurtugal_rebornFixing Paolini's magic system?
I've been ruminating about Paolini's contradictory mess of a magic system, recently. I've had some thought for how it could have been fixed early on, before most of the contradictions were introduced. I mean, it was a flawed system from the start, but didn't really start getting stupid until Brisingr, when Paolini started adding more and more different ideas and ignoring his previously-established rules. It got even more stupid in extra-textual interviews and Q&As, when Paolini just started spiralling out of control up until Murtagh (the book), where he threw out everything previously established about how magic works, and replaced it with a new different system that also doesn't work.
Anyway, here are a few ideas I've had for how the magic system could have been fixed in the first draft, before Eldest was published.
I've been ruminating about Paolini's contradictory mess of a magic system, recently. I've had some thought for how it could have been fixed early on, before most of the contradictions were introduced. I mean, it was a flawed system from the start, but didn't really start getting stupid until Brisingr, when Paolini started adding more and more different ideas and ignoring his previously-established rules. It got even more stupid in extra-textual interviews and Q&As, when Paolini just started spiralling out of control up until Murtagh (the book), where he threw out everything previously established about how magic works, and replaced it with a new different system that also doesn't work.
Anyway, here are a few ideas I've had for how the magic system could have been fixed in the first draft, before Eldest was published.
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What would you change to fix the magic in the IC?
