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Part of me wants to think Axindweth is Telsin Ladrian. High ranking member of the Set, good odds they're working with Worldhoppers. I'm not certain her timeline matches up, but didn't Wax fall out of contact with her for quite some time?

Oh, I forgot to update! I got an "A(-)," which is to say that Card thought it was a really good conversational essay, but missed a few points on it being a coherent construction of an argument. He said the minus wouldn't show up on my report card or anything. That's fair, I'm no Elsecaller.

Oh, for sure. Those were intended as such going in, to be fair, but yeah. i actually can’t think of any! The Aviar on their face aren’t flashy-cool, but they’re a neat concept. also, paper (probably isn’t in good order, so I am sorry about that, but there are page numbers):

I can totally see where you’re coming from - His Mithermages trilogy is pretty absent of it, up until the third book where it gets a lot less subtle. Still a good read, though. And thanks! I’ll keep y’all posted.

Essentially, we discussed the work of several LDS fantasy authors, and discussed how Mormon doctrines were or may have been an influence. I didn’t include much of that in my paper because that’s part of the final exam, but that might change in the next hour or two.

Haha, the paper should be done later today. Please don’t get your hopes up, though! It’s not spectacular by any means; I originally wanted it to be a treatise on the base layers of how Investiture works but I didn’t want it to be boring. It’s actually for a class on LDS authors of speculative fiction that I’m taking from Orson Scott Card! Super fun course. Very rewarding. It won’t get me into med school, I mean, but it has a lot of personal value. Card’s a good guy.

Ah, that Arcanum link was just what I needed! Should have thought to check there. Thank you so much!

For sure for sure, but I was wondering where he said it originally, haha... I couldn’t find it on the Sanderson website and the Coppermind doesn’t have a citation for it.

So, I'm writing a paper on the harmonization between the framework of Investiture and Sanderson's Laws of Magic, and I was wondering what the source for the statement on the Coppermind about the Zeroth Law is. I couldn't find it anywhere, personally - is it in one of his lectures on YouTube or one of his writing podcasts, or elsewhere?

After a manner: Devils on horseback. They really do taste like cotton candy made outta baby.

Aw, I somehow forgot he was buddies with Hoid as well. Now I'm extra sad

I think that for cremling shells in Chouta, you could do small, shell-on shrimp, deep fried. The shells of shellfish are perfectly edible, they only need some chewing. I envision it as a barley and cornmeal flatbread, with brown rice and pearled barley, chunks of beef, pork, or shellfish, and falafel-esque meatballs all in a dark shellfish gravy. I've been meaning to make it, but fictional meals are lower on priority lists for broke college students.

Don't forget that bodies of water manifest as dry ground in Shadesmar/the Cognitive Realm. If he were in the Cognitive!Purelake, he wouldn't be wading, and if he were in a Shadesmar body of water, it would be beads and also probably not warm.

Here’s an interesting thing to consider: When Marsh reads Goradel’s note, the book mentions that he flares tin, so that he can see the page better. Obviously, this isn’t going to boost his night vision (railroad spikes through the face tend to be bad for that), but it seems like it enhances his steelsight. Now, that is probably just an argument more in favor of the Spiritual aspect of Steelsight, since a-Tin does more than just enhance the senses. But still, that level of interaction is interesting to consider, in the context of this thread...

I feel like this one is almost cut-and-dry, but it would be nice to get a full WoB (which may already exist). We know f-Tin isn't limited to the traditional five senses - I believe we've gotten word that if there was a Windwhisper platypus, it could store electroreception. However, it seems likely that Investiture-granted senses wouldn't work quite the same in that regard. That said, a double-tin Twinborn, compounding the lifesense granted by Breath... Would be terrifying. Well, strategically, but you get my point.