O Olho do mundo, de Robert Jordan Wheel of Time séries e os Poço da Ascensão, de Brandon Sanderson Mistborn séries, parecem ser muito semelhantes por coincidência. A seguir, há muitas evidências; portanto, se você já está convencido, pule para o final das partes boas:
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uma piscina cheia de fluido misterioso
tEotW:
a pool took up the entire cavern, except for the walkway around it, perhaps five paces wide. [...] Its surface was as smooth as glass and as clear as the Whispering Water. Rand felt as if his eyes could penetrate it forever, but he could not see any bottom to it. [...]
The stone struck the glassy surface and slid into the pool without a splash, or so much as a ripple. As it sank, the rock began to swell, growing ever larger, larger and more attenuated, a blob the size of his head that Rand could almost see through, a faint blur as wide as his arm was long. Then it was gone. He thought his skin would creep right off his body.
tWoA:
Staring at the glittering waters. They were gathered in a small depression in the rock, and they looked thick - like metal. A silvery white, glowing liquid metal. The Well was only a few feet across, but its power loomed in her mind. [...]
She stepped onto the pool. It resisted her touch, but her foot began to sink, slowly.
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uma imensa reserva de poder, para ser usada em grande necessidade
tEotW:
"The Power to mend the seal on the Dark One's prison, or to break it open completely. [...] No one living knows [...]either the how, nor more of the why than that it would be needed one day, and that that need would be the greatest and most desperate the world had faced to that time. Perhaps ever would face.
tWoA: Não consigo encontrar uma citação relevante, mas o poder do poço da ascensão é o que o Lorde Governante usou para remodelar e mudar o planeta inteiro, e o que Vin poderia ter feito o mesmo se tivesse entendido o que realmente estava acontecendo. em.
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... poder que o personagem principal toma, esvaziando a piscina
tEotW:
Light filled him, and heat that should have burned yet only warmed as if it took the chill of the grave from his bones. [...] Rand pulsed with the beating in the cord, like the heartbeat of the world. It filled his being. Light filled his mind, till only a corner was left for what was himself. [...] Warmth built in Rand, the warmth of the sun, the radiance of the sun, bursting, the awful radiance of light, of the Light. [...]
"The Eye is gone, but there's something in the middle of the pool, a crystal column, and steps to reach it."
tWoA:
she started to burn. She recognised the sensation: it was exactly like the feeling of burning metals in her stomach, except it came from her entire body. Her skin flared, her muscles flamed, and her very bones seemed on fire. [...] She was glowing. She felt the power within, as if it were trying to burst back out. It was like the strength she gained by burning pewter, but amazingly more potent. It was a force of incredible capacity. [...]
She screamed, her glow fading, then fell into the now empty pool, head knocking against the rocks.
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nos confins do norte do mundo
tEotW fica longe no extremo nordeste do continente, além da praga.
tWoA está na verdade sob Luthadel, mas havia rumores de estar (e de fato estava, em versões anteriores do livro) no domínio mais ao norte, o de Terris.
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com um livro com o nome dele.
tEotW: todas as citações acima são do livro 1, O olho do mundo, capítulos 50-51.
tWoA: todas as citações acima são do livro 2, O Poço da Ascensão, capítulo 58.
Embora Brandon Sanderson ainda não estivesse pessoalmente envolvido no Wheel of Time série no momento em que ele escreveu o Mistborn série (Robert Jordan ainda estava vivo quando O Poço da Ascensão foi publicado pela primeira vez), acho que li em algum lugar que ele sempre foi fã do Wheel of Time série.
O Poço da Ascensão foi definitivamente baseado no Olho do Mundo?
Há alguma citação do próprio Sanderson para confirmar ou negar isso?