Vikter

Hate seems to be getting a pretty bad rep 'round these parts, for what reason I do not know. It can be a good, bad, or indifferent thing, just as all of the shards are if taken by themselves. Undirected hate is a bad thing, directed hate is a valuable tool. I, for example, hate to be late for work so I am always 30-45 minutes early, I also hate doing nothing so when at work I always find something to do. Because of that I got a raise and promotion, hate is good sometimes. All of the shards are neither good nor evil, they just are what they are. Any of them in excess or without proper balancing are flat out bad for you. Every emotion has a place and a time where they belong.

Bendalloy may not grant super speed of any kind but it might screw with atium shadows. If a slider bubbles and uses it to line up a pistol or shotgun round, then drop bubble and fire at someone burning atium how would the shadows react? Would the shadow even be visible inside of a bubble, would it be moving super fast? How about for the split second the bubble is down before the shot goes off, would that be enough time to react to a now stable shadow? A slider would be able to pull off some sick headshots that way ( went into FPS gamer mode for a second there sorry). **Edit** a Bendalloy Steel twinborn would be a absurd combo too, you could easily tap your speed as soon as you drop you Bendalloy bubble to make even the few seconds you are open to counter attacks disappear. Not to mention the harrasment capabilities being able to speed burst into the flank of your opponent and trap him in the bubble would be devastating.

I believe he means the WotK Prime deleted scenes. If that is the case then no, you are not missing something. It is a different story all together, one of the first drafts of WotK.

I know Brandon would be unlikely to use the same trick twice and all, but has anyone considered that Odium could very well change the text of some of Jasnahs source materials. Even if part of his oath pact with Honor would stop him from direct intervention it may not cover something as minor as altering a few childrens books or collections of wives tales. Obviously there would be no proof of this for at least a book or two until the reveal to the readers, but my tinfoil hat was getting rusty in the corner.

I loved the first three books, because they were all out when I picked up the first one. After it took so long for the fourth I had to reread them all over again to remind myself about the different plots going on. On a similar note this video sums up most of my frustrations:

I was thinking about this very thing the other day. What makes me feel like it may have been intentional is the even division into 16 segments. Generally when I think of the word shatter I don't think of an even breaking into equal pieces. If I were to accidentally knock over a vase it would shatter into many completely random pieces. Although calling it The Shattering has a much better ring to it than The Equal Subdivision Into 16 Shards.

Well I am a cook so not much of a choice, I can deal with no Internet for quite a long time. Would you rather work 40 hours over 2 days and have all week off or a regular work week?

I think you might be on to something here. If Syl were to have a specific name I would have to go with Protectionspren. That is what seems to be her main focus, it is what made her stay with Kalidan in the beginning. She states at one point it was how Kalidan sought out and protected the weak under aged and under trained soldiers in the army to protect them that piqued her curiosity. If Honorspren do have subtypes she is without a doubt Protectionspren. Of course this only raises another question of what are the rest of the catagories of Honorspren we have Truthspren and (if I am correct) Protectionspren. Others that might make sense would Loyaltyspren? Justicespren? Fidelityspren? That's all I can think up right now, maybe none of those would stick. Anyone else have any names?

Pearl Harbor (sans regicide) would be what you are looking for good sir. I too feel that it was the manner in which Galivar was killed that makes it such a heinous act. Heinous does not automatically mean it had to be a wholesale slaughter, it is really the intent and manner in which the killing takes place that makes it heinous. **EDIT** For good measure you can also add in his use of Stormlight to murder (while walking on stone) as a reason for him to consider it such a terrible act. While the person who is speaking may not hold to the Shin customs, they know that Szeth does and use it against him. Even though they can command him via his Oathstone they want him to break him down in order to turn him into a truely mindless killing machine. The man who speaks to him degrades what little personal honor he has left by throwing all of Szeth sins in his face. They want to make him feel that even if there were some chance of redemption for whatever crime he committed to gain his Truthless nature everything he has done since makes that impossible.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercane I hope that link works, the mobile version of the forums make posting things such a pain. This type of storm might be a even more powerful than a Highstorm is, fortunately they are cannot happen on Earth under anything resembling normal conditions. I first heard of a Hypercane in an article about possible side effects of a meteor strike. In order for sea water to reach the temperatures need to produce a storm of this magnitude ( which our shields could not repel [sorry I had to go for the Star Wars referance]) an asteroid would have to impact into to ocean. Such an event would kill most of us anyway so a 500mph wind hurricane would be the least of our worries. However on Roshar they seem to get hit by a storm about half that strong, but infinatly more vast, about once a week. As I said in my original post, I don't think that trees or any major plant life we have now would be able to stand a storm even half again of a Highstorm if they were as frequent. But of course the Highstorms also give life to the planet, nothing on Roshar could survive if not for the highly concentrated nutriants that they contain. I believe it is stated somewhere in the book that it is common knowledge that Highstorm rain is significantly better for growing than regular rain. That gives me a new theory, what if the Highstorms were not in fact created by Honor or Cultivation (Honor even refers to the final Desolation as The Everstorm, what would cause more desolation than a perpetual Highstorm)? What if they were created by Odium in an attempt to scour the planet clean of life? Maybe it is a reverse of the mists on Scadrial, they were subverted to be life giving and all plant and animal life seems to have be adapted (cultivated) to not only survive in a storm but to thrive off of the aftermath of one.

In the episode of Writing Excuses where they discuss WotK Brandon mentions specifically going out and studying tidal pools as inspiration for Roshar. He want examples of creatures that had to thrive in two extremes of environment, where they would have to adapt to sudden shifts. I don't recall the exact episode number but it was one of the more recent ones ( in the last month).

Excellent series, I love the Temeraire series. The fact that dragons were a real race and not just mystical was a great selling point for me. Novik did a great job building them as a whole speices, as well as setting the period perfectly not just present day characters and mindsets with an 1800's background. Personally I cannot wait to see how Sanderson does dragons in the cosmere. They will be epic.

Perhaps the Oathstone has something in common with the stones that Tein used to find (sorry if that was discussed in another thread). With how important stone is in all of Roshar, and espcially Holy to the Shin, that if Tein sees something important in a stone than there might actually be. Maybe there is a petrified Spren or a similar peice of Honor or Cultivation that only somepeople can see ( like Rock being able to see Syl). Of course it could also have just been a literary device to show Teins childish nature and make us feel more for Kal when he gets skewered. However I have a hard time dismissing small details in any of Sandersons books.

Chill out Zucchini, just because Leon didn't make a four paragraph post about why he feels the way he does is no reason to jump on him. If you bothered to check you would have noticed that this way his second post ever here ( the first being I the introduce yourself section). I know that most people here go into great detail about the smallest things trying to predict what will happen in the next book\books that Sanderson writes but that does not mean someones post is invalid and that their opinion should be derided. Not everyone here is an English Major trying to dissect every aspect of an amazing writers work to gain more knowledge about his worlds and future works. Some people read books for the enjoyment of reading alone and just want to express how they feel on the messages boards. On a separate note, hello Leon welcome to the forums. Most people are not quite so rude, though I would expect to be prepared to defend any stance you take here as most forum goers have avid opinions and love to debate on anything Sanderson related ad infinium.

Perhaps compounding a coppermind memory works like a DVR. You can Pause,Fast Forward, Rewind a memory as much as you want without losing it. You can even skip all those pesky infomercials, and ads for Viagra. On slightly more serious note, my only problem with Copper Compouding is that you have to be burning the metal to use it. If I am burning the metal I will destroy it and therefore lose anything else left in the coppermind.