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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 5680274" data-attributes="member: 40398">I happen to be reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time at the moment -- 13th book, so don't tell me whether it ends if you know!I think one of the things that makes Jordan's WoT series so great is that he manages to make the One Power both a plot device and a setting element. During the first book, magic is mysterious, powerful and unknown to most characters. As the series goes on though, several characters realize their own magical abilities and learn to harness them.Magic becomes even more powerful -- several characters actually rediscover lost spells -- and Jordan clearly put thought into how magic affects his world's politics, economies and culture. Magic isn't some isolated phenomenon that everyone ignores. One of the characters, a queen, is currently trying to get a group of channelers to settle in her realm in exchange for regular access to teleportation and Healing.At the same time that the characters learn and adapt to the One Power, it isn't 100% understood by anyone. Why can only certain people use it? How did the Dark One poison the male half? How will the Dragon Reborn defeat Him once the last seal of His prison is broken?I didn't intend to write a gushing review of WoT, but it looks like I did. Oh well. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /></blockquote>

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