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== Development ==

 

The idea for Forgery as a magic system was developed during a trip to the [[Wikipedia:National_Palace_Museum|National Palace Museum]] in [[wikipedia: Taiwan|Taiwan]]. While investigating the museum, author [[Brandon Sanderson]] was inspired by the [[wikipedia: Seal_(East_Asia)|east asian seals]] which had been applied to works of art by ancient Chinese nobility who appreciated the works. They would stamp the work of art with their personal seal to indicate their approval, sometimes covering works of art with stamps of various patrons.{{tes ref|postscript}}

 

This seed led to the concept of a stamp magic, soulstamps, that rewrote the nature of an object's existence. In order to not overlap too much with Soulcasting, inspiration was taken from the setting of the museum. Thus, soulstamps became objects that could rewrite history. As it developed, the seals grew to match the symbolic programming of magic systems on Sel that had already been in development, and as Sel had several pre-established Asian-style cultures, the seal system fit naturally into Sel's established background.{{tes ref|postscript}}