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In original Avatar tle Last Airbender, some firebenders can use lightning. There's at most 2 people at the very top of the food chain who can shoot it and 2 more who can not create it, but can defend themselves/return to sender. In the sequel, there are factories full of workers whose job is stand and shoot lightnings to generate electricity.

You're saying that healed Maya might not be the same as before... But if a spren leaves his realm and becomes less sentient, then bonds someone and becomes more sentient, then his knight dies and he becomes a free spren again, then he bonds another person... Is he the same personality all the 3 times, or a new one every time?

> I've also got some projects too early to talk about > Are there any fighter pilots among my readers? If so, I would love to make use of your expertise. Hmmmm.....

I like Mat since he stopped dying in book 3. He's not the sharpest tool, but there's a lot of good moments around him. Yep. book 1's about half a year older than me. That's always an impressive time category. Not modern, not ancient, just stuff you barely missed.

General consensus I've seen so far, including my expericence up to book 7 is: The first several books are not great at all, being stereotypical fantasy with bad characters, then it gets more experimental so the quality drops, then author gets very ill and it really shows, and then he died and B.Sanderson didn't do his books justice.

It's very hard to perceive, visually, with all the grain, and I'm really wondering about some of the poses. A lot. It looks like an in-universe theatrical play. Characters turning - right leg forward, turned 90 degrees to the right. Characters sitting - inclined 45 degrees sideways towards each other. A movement as natural as Egyptian wall paitings. Feet put across each other while walking, so the person should be either swinging right and left, or walking like a model on a podium, I'm not exactly sure.

Well, after one of the ideals in the end of book 2, Kaladin answers the question with "Yes, NOW I'm a radiant". So, before that it would probably be a lie. P.S. Hi everyone! Have a good day.

Is this considered a necropost it the topic is on the first page? I hope not. I really feel Eric's pain. One of my favourite character dramas (in another work) is a person who feels there's no place for him in the world, until he discovers something he was literally born for - it's his gift, his ability, his soul, preserved through reincarnations and giving him superpowers - and it also happens to be killing others and eating meat, because he's a predator accidentally reborn as human. Eric is something similar, but opposite: he's a son of a general, but he also wants to just live his life however he wants and do whatever he likes, and not be the warrior like expected. But the problem is, he's deadly like no other. How would you feel, having great talent for something you really hate? Like murder, or math. The main character from Megan W. Turner's "Thief" has a similar problem, but at least he's complete crap at riding horses, so it's an argument saving him.

it's called a Larkin, I think, and Nale has used another one like that to hunt Lift in her first interlude and other radiants. Nice to see that it works on Voidlight, too.

I would very much like him to revive and bond his sword, but breaking him now to achieve that will make the whole experience worthless. He'll simply become "just another knight radiant, edgedancer #2, overshadowed by Lift" instead of a person who'd gone and done something unique, that even local gods previously considered impossible. (Not that Stormfather's memory is reliable, with all those retcons of "I suddenly always knew that", of course...)

I like Adolin and I don't think there's a need to make everyone mentally challenged. Quoting tv tropes, " consumers of media affected by Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy tend to approach conflict between parties or factions with remarkable indifference; because no matter who wins, the universe will still suck. (And while it would be really nice to see them all lose, that likely isn't going to happen.) In other words, there is nothing at stake. While there is a conflict happening, for all that the audience is concerned there might as well not be because they likely have little reason to care about who wins or loses. " There must be at least someone unfazed by all the crazyness. If everyone were suffering from past drama, flashback drama, childhood trauma, current drama, killing spouses, killing relatives, killing brothers, mental illness, physical illness, missing limbs, missing memories, horrible childhood, horrible adulthood, horrible luck and having an ugly butt, I'd vote for Odium to storming end their miserable lives already. And also, Adolin isn't the main character. He's not one of the knights radiant, he's not one of the flashback characters, he's a secondary character, foil to others. Being high-born doesn't require much skill, being beautiful too, or healthy, or having a good teacher. He's a nice person, he looks good, he's funny, and he can fight. And I really don't know why he has so much problems with all the girls he dates. And he's able to just step aside and let his girlfriend take a meaningful decision without dumb things like jealousy. He's immensely likable. (And he has more plot going around him than Cedric Diggory. Thus, I hope that means he's not just there to be killed and make universe worse.) (edit) Saying that someone can't be a main character without his own earth-shattering troubles, and saying "He has troubles but I don't acknowledge that they are large enough" is akin to saying that good people aren't allowed to exist. And if they may exist, they cannot do anything meaningful or participate in the plot. It's a common problem nowadays, and also acknowledged. Everything must be gritty and dark. You cannot be a hero, you must be an anti-hero. You can't be someone like Super-man, or Captain america, or All MIght (the most recent and popular animesque take on Superman), whose main reason for doing good is being good. You must be doing good because you accidentally killed your uncle, or watched your parents die, or because you're crazy, immortal and horribly disfigured, so you enjoy stabbing bad guys while they shoot you in the face. That's why the end of Golden and Silver ages and appearance of new and unique darker plots created thousands of shitty off-shoots. Everything must have blood and carnage not because you're painting something original that didn't exist before, but because it's what makes people more excited. Look, he has a vendetta, oooh. Look, he's dark and troubled, ooooh. Look, that guy from the Watchmen has raped 2 generations of the family and probably plans on raping the third one, he's such an engaging fellow!

I think that there may be some chemical reaction going inside, instead of just tectonic activity.

The sand is also mentioned in Oathbringer. And it's reacting to Shallan. --- Galladon is a laid-back guy, Baon is a serious guy. Kaladin's story is about his depression and guilt, Kenton is more trying to prove his worth and deciding to prove it to himself, instead, when everybody else dies (not because of him in any way). Is Dellous that drunk admiral? He has a common theme with Sebarial, but where Seb has obfuscating stupidity, a mistress, and just making rational decisions at all time instead of fighting, that guy has a mind game to win by really actually doing nothing at all except being pissed-out drunk until a critical moment. If we're talking how they have a bit of similar traits, then there's a total of like, 10 characters in all known literature.The small helper girl in White Sand is more similar to Lift than your other examples are to each other.

Come on, if you were able to cut things apart, create decay and destruction on a massive scale and probably create explosions with a click of you finger, tell me you wouldn't enjoy it.

This is exactly what I came to talk about. Can you imagine how big, fat and happy Chiri was after Dalinar flooded the whole city with Stormlight?