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Time for me to end this argument. Time to bring out the heavy weapons - Word of Brandon. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2383-qa-with-brandon-sanderson/page-7 'astalduath', on 26 Sept 2012 - 03:50 AM, said: A lightsaber is actually a little more easy to wield than a Shardblade, I would guess. Shardblades were designed to fight something larger than another person; you don't actually need all of that size when fighting someone. So that gives a slight edge to you average Jedi. Jedi win

Pardon my sick mind, but bloodmakers are built to film gore films with a minimal special effects budget.

You're welcome. I love proving people wrong

For pewterarms, coinshots and bloodmakers I'd suggest a 'laceration bullet'. My idea here is for a dozen small wooden pellets packed into a container with metal on the bottom side (the side facing the shooter while the bullet is in the air). A coinshot would push on that metal, causing it to drop off and breaking the container for the smaller wooden bullets to keep flying. Against pewterarms and bloodmakers, the shooter would use an ironpull on the bullet just before it hits, scattering the pellets. On a bloodmaker, this is meant to force them to heal against a dozen smaller wounds. Against a pewterarm, the pain is meant to force them to flare their pewter, and thereby extinguish it faster.

VinuarchYes, one of the months of the year is named after Vin. There are twelve months, one after each member of the crew, with a few tweaks. (The days of the week have different names too, but we ended up not using any in this book.) By the way, Scadrial—the world of Mistborn—is the closest Earth analogue in the cosmere. I did this intentionally, as I wanted one planet where technology and the like progressed similiarly to what we have. There are distinctions, of course, but generally we’ve got a lot of similarities. Even in the original Mistborn, we referenced plants and animals by Earth-style names. You can assume that on Scadrial they have horses, dogs, cats, sparrows, and the like. There are twelve months, and a twenty-four-hour day. Gravity is earth gravity. Things like this. There’s no hidden meaning there—no tie back to Earth, at least not in any important way. The cosmere is entirely separate from Earth. This one planet, however, has creatures that were developed along the same lines as Earth. (Well, it’s not the only one, but to say more would be to give away too much.) Source: http://brandonsanderson.com/annotation-the-alloy-of-law-chapter-three/

No offense intended, but you are to nerds what nerds are to the surface-dwelling non-basement-living-non-Sanderson-reading majority.

I'd say a lightsaber would win, because if the user removed the suppressors that keep the blade at its current length, sure the power supply would vanish quickly, but suddenly you've got an infinite range sword with almost no weight. I'd just point it at the Shardbearer, remove the filters, and hold it steady while it obliterates his Shardplate and sears through his skull.

Hoid clearly killed Asmodean

If the Wheel of Time were part of the Cosmere, then that means Earth is also a part of it. Sorry about crushing your dreams about a sulk-off between Rand and Kaladin, but WoB states that the Cosmere is completely separate from Earth.

I know someone else probably posted this, but I have a feeling that Dalinar wrote it in his sleep. As I can't be bothered reading through six pages to find someone who also posted this, I'll just post it. When they say 'seeing the future is of the Voidbringers' perhaps that is a misinterpretation - Honor even said at the end of TwoK that 'Cultivation was better at seeing the future than I was'. I think this means it is just an area where Honor is unskilled. Perhaps Cultivation was trying to warn him of something?

To the post above me http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/158326-ancient-aliens

Thanks; I didn't know days were shorter on Roshar. I'll correct the ages

I... NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE EDITED POSTS. Still, being Lamespren, they can't have been that good, but still... Wait, hold on a moment... I FOUND SOME! She deleted them, but someone had quoted them before she had. http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/4933-red-stars/#entry81071 Ete'ni, on 23 Dec 2013 - 06:13 AM, said: Ete'ni, on 23 Dec 2013 - 1:07 PM, said: Ete'ni, on 24 Dec 2013 - 11:15 AM, said: And from another topic http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/4918-originators/page-2#entry81004 Ete'ni, on 21 Dec 2013 - 3:30 PM, said: Ete'ni, on 22 Dec 2013 - 08:43 AM, said: Ete'ni, on 23 Dec 2013 - 12:47 PM, said: In conclusion, Ete'ni was... a twelve year old girl who cannot comprehend that other people may disagree with her viewpoints. If you want to find more, go to her Profile, head to the Reputations section, then open any of those pages, press Control+G, then type Ete'.

You got ten upvotes for those three words? Time to spam them around the forum

To distill a complicated subject, each Rosharian year is 500 days. How much would this add to a character's age, vs normal years? On another note, do we know humans on Roshar are the same as humans on earth? Perhaps, as a side effect of Investiture, they have longer lifespans. As I'm too lazy to calculate their actual ages, I'll just add the ones I know here for someone else to do my work for me. Note that the ages below are as of the start of The Way of Kings - not counting the prologue. EDIT: Correcting the ages. Note that I have been informed days are shorter on Roshar, making the ratio between Rosharian and Earth years 1-1. Sorry about all that Shallan - 17 Kaladin and Renarin - 19 Adolin - 23 Elhokar - 30-Something Jasnah - 33 Szeth - 37 Sadeas - 50, as of the start of Words of Radiance Dalinar - Unknown, presumed 50 Gavilar - Unknown, presumed to be above 50