Necronos

This is all true, except that the scene says that Tan yanked Lessie 'in the same instant' that Wax fired. It wasn't as 1) Wax fired, THEN 2) Tan yanked Lessie. They happened at the same time. So I still contend that it is all within the realm of normal human abilities. I think the issue is how did Tan know to yank Lessie. I think it is possible that he knew of their trick, but I'm open to other theories.

+1 to this. I've donated money to many sites that I enjoy, especially when their donate button is easy to find. A few other ideas - auction off some cool items (books, posters, existing merchandise) that was (legal) purchased and then signed by Brandon. I bet if a bunch of Magic cards were donated to the cause, some enterprising 17th Sharder could get Brandon to make a deck from them, play them, then give them up to be auctioned off. Other items could be given to Brandon to use while on tour, something that he would most likely use anyway, that could be signed and sold off after the tour. I'm sure Peter can tell us if Brandon needs a new flight bag!

I always has the distinct impression that Hoid, in his appearance in HoA, was holding a waffle *edit for correction of emoticon

Another point against Tan being a Slider is that Lessie also would have known about speed bubbles since she would have spent time around Wayne as well. I just think that if Tan put up a bubble, Lessie or Wax, or both, would have known and Wax would have either taken it into account or Lessie would have alerted him. I still think Tan was just a regular, albeit psychopathic, guy. To go all meta here, Lessie needed to die for Wax to go back to the city. So she did. Applying occam's razor, what Tan did was completely within the bounds of a non-magic users abilities...

When it comes to Lifeless only needing one breath to be created, that comes from many years of research and many developments such as the alcohol blood thing. The first Lifeless required more breath to be animated. Also an awakener has an easier time awakening stuff that is human shaped, as evidenced by Vasher making straw puppets that resemble humans and having a human-ish shaped cloak. Lifeless as the epitome of human shaped, being recently dead humans. I think the fact that a single breath can't sustain a Lifeless forever is due to the wounds that they might receive will change them from being human shaped, and thus into something that would naturally require more breath to awaken. This is also what Nightblood took so many breath's to awaken - he (it) isn't close to being human shaped at all. I subscribe to the idea that when a Returned hits their week mark, a breath is instantly consumed. For a breath to be slowly consumed during the week would crate the possibility of having 'half-breath'. I think that the feelings that Lightsong describe at the end of his week are just warning signs that his Divine breath is getting close to being consumed, that his life is close to ending. It makes sense to me that Returned would feel this since Endowment sent them back for a purpose, and if their Divine breath was consumed, and they die, then their purpose wouldn't have been fulfilled.

I would think that humans are shadowed on the other realms. The very act of being cut by a shardblade, with no physical manifestation of that cut, would hint that the wound exists on one of the other realms (and I think it is the Spiritual Realm) I have no clue what anything else means, I just wanted to chime in and say my bit on good old humans

Yeah, I heard Brandon talk about the 17th shard, so I looked the site up and here I am.

In 1994 my friend handed me a copy of 'The Eye of the World' and said "Read this, and don't crease the spine". He has a thing about creased spines! At the time I was reading a lot of Terry Pratchett, and since I'm from Ireland and was living there at the time, I was used to pretty epic covers. The EotW's cover was sufficiently epic for me to take the book home to read it. Before I left, my friend did warn me that the first 100 pages or so might turn me off, and I'm glad I did. My 13 year old self did not enjoy those 100 pages. My current self loves the hell out of them. At the end of 'Towers of Midnight' I commented to my wife that this characters were as much my friends as some people I really knew. At that point I had spent 16 years with Rand, Matt, and Perrin. I've read and reread the series many times and love it more with each pass through. I'm lucky to have meet Robert Jordan in person, and have a signed copy of 'Winter's Heart'. I think that colors my experience of that novel, and I don't see it when people complain about the slump of WH and 'Crossroads of Twilight'.

Thanks Joe! I've had it for quite some time

I can't seem to find any thread about Infinity Blade: Awakening so I figured that I would start one. I know that it is a novella and not technically a short story, so hopefully I can be forgiven posting it here. I'm not sure if this is a spoiler free zone so I'll refrain for posting spoilers until I know better. Having never played the game that this story is based upon (buying it only because Brandon wrote it), I found the novella easily to get into and enjoyable to read. It certainly had a lot of interesting concepts that it played with. Since I don't know what came from the game and what Brandon created, I'm just going to attribute it all to Brandon! The fight scenes were tight and the pacing was great. The characters introduced were good, well fleshed out with hints of deepness. Typical of Brandon's 'there is always another mystery' approach, the novella had a few interesting revelations at the end that left me wanted more. If there is another novella in this 'series' then I'll be happy to read it too...

Hmm? I hope these revelations won't be used by some evil villain someday... Sleep I can lay down with the intention of sleeping and be asleep within seconds. I have found the off button within my brain and can simply switch off. When I'm travelling, and not the driver or have a need to entertain the driver, I just sleep. Cars, trains, planes, buses, boats. It doesn't matter. If I want to sleep then I'll sleep. Soul Sense It is only on the rarest of occasions that I can be startled by anyone since I mostly know when people are around me. If I have headphones on and someone walks up behind me I know they are there. People, my kids mostly, have tried to sneak up on me, or have hidden around corned to try to scare me, and have failed. I always know they are there. Memory This is selective. I usually remember stuff about people, and also about trivia. My memory for people has actually freaked some people out. I'll remember stuff about their family, their phone number and addresses, their birthday's. Years later if they mention a family member in passing I'll usually be able to recall something about them that will just be met with astonishment.

Hey guys! I'm a big Brandon fan living in Idaho Falls. I 'discovered' him when I heard that he was going to finish out The Wheel of Time series, which is sad since Brandon is awesome in his own right. A buddy of mine told me about him around April '09 and so I started to browse though his site and keep tabs on what was up. It turned out that he was going to be in Idaho Falls shortly after Warbreaker was released, so I headed to the B&N that he was signing at and got myself a signed copy of Warbreaker. The B&N has a small stock of Elantris in hardback too so I grabbed a copy of that too. This was my first time at a Brandon signing and it was a lot of fun. He asked if I wanted the books personalized and I said 'No, they'll be worth more un-personalized when you're dead'. He just laughed and asked if I would mind him doodling an Aon Rao in the Elantris book. Of course I didn't. I've read all his adult novels, along with all the short stories that he has released. Anytime that he is in Idaho Falls (which seems like once a year) I always go down to the signing even if I have nothing to get signed. I've attended both Wheel of Time midnight releases, as well as the Alloy of Law midnight release. I was wearing a sweatshirt that said 'I Killed Asmodean' for TGS release that Brandon was so nice to sign for me. I got but two of his adult novels in hardback 1st editions signed. I'm missing 'The Final Empire' and 'The Hero of Ages'. I do have them in paperback signed though... but I will eventually hunt them down in HB 1st edition. At the AoL release, I got there around 5pm to discover that BYU bookstore was sold out, but luckily I managed to get on the waiting list and, after many worrying hours, finally got myself a copy - #416. That's my story and I'm sticking too it!

I didn't feel stupid until I read this thread, I completely missed that connection!

Wax, having worked with Wayne for a long time, would have been able to recognize that Bloody Tan was a Slider by the speed bubble. Since there is never a description of a speed bubble in the encounter I would lean towards that not being the case. Throughout the book, Wax was pretty good at identifying opposing Allomancers/Feruchemists. I think that is Tan has any powers then they were of a variety that Wax simply didn't know of. He had hunted Bloody Tan down, it is presumable that he know a lot about the guy and not once did he think that he was a threat Allomantically/Feruchemically. Atium is probably something that he didn't know anything about, so I do think that that possibility exists, but I don't think that Tan being a Slider or Steel Ferring fits. Since Tan was a serial killer of some fame, he might have simply discovered the couples 'trick'.