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'''Err on the side of AWESOME.'''
Brandon has, in his online lectures, described his ultimate rule as that of making magic "awesome" (in the colloquial sense), and further implied that said "awesomeness" takes precedence over exact obedience to the other three laws.{{wob ref|6227}} This rule is primarily to be understood in the sense of beginning with an interesting (i.e. "awesome") idea, and building the magic system or fantastical technology upon said idea from there, rather than to simply disregarding the previously mentioned laws - rather, those laws should bend to the "awesomeness" of the idea, and not take priority over it, thus keeping the idea behind the magic system "awesome".{{wob ref|7077}}
The naming of this law is a reference to Isaac Asimov's Zeroth Law of his Three Laws of Robotics.
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