kateydidnt

Any guesses or hints on the Prof's weakness? I didn't see it coming with Megan being an epic--in the elevator scene, I thought DAVID was exhibiting a power and didn't realize it. I suspected someone on the team would turn out to be an Epic, not two of them. For some reason I was thinking Cody but I now realize it is because I read a scene wrong and interpreted his actions completely differently than it meant.

Dragonsteel is considered part of the general collection. Its proper place on the shelf is with all the rest of the honor's theses (housed in the reading room on the third floor--the main floor: 1 and 2 are underground). However, it is rarely on the shelf. It is available for Interlibrary Loan, though I am not sure which libraries exactly BYU loans to. If you are lucky enough to catch it when it is on the shelf, more power to you, but currently it is checked out... too ME!!!!! (insert evil laughter). After 7 WEEKS with a hold on it, I finally checked it out yesterday. And now that I finished my last final, I can read it starting tonight!

Though this is assuming that the geography has not been rearranged like in Mistborn.

Entering! I am getting so excited for Allow of Law.

Are you still looking for typos? Because I have a few in the Kindle Edition. Page 648/Location 13744: Oathpact is spelled Ooathpact twice Page 891/Location 18891: "They entered the staging area. Dalinar's father, in his Shardplate, was conferring with Teleb and Ilamar." Should be "Adolin's father" I think. (Don't have a print edition to check against--I only have the Kindle edition.) I could probably find some more in my current re-read.

That would be why I have not seen those before--they do not exist in the Kindle edition.

I know! I just finished rewatching "A Good Man Goes to War". So excited!

Wow, where do I start. I don't remember what first got me into fantasy. I have known all my life that Vader is Luke's father, I don't remember a time when this came as a surprise so sci-fi and fantasy have been a part of my life for a while. When I was a kid, my Dad would watch Star Trek Next Gen (and TOS, but this was during the original run of TNG) and I refused to watch because my Dad was a nerd and I was not a nerd. These days I have truly accepted my nerdiness. I squeeeed so much when I found out Netflix was getting ALL Stark Trek episodes (now just waiting for DS9 in october!). I know I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe in 3rd grade, I know I then finished the rest of the series on my own fairly soon after that. When I was in seventh grade (looking at the US release dates it had to be beginning of 8th grade actually) my mother told me an old teacher of mine had recommended I read this new book called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I got it from the library, read it, and fell in love completely. Chamber of Secrets was available in the UK by then, but had not been released in the US. I remember being terribly disappointed about this. My love of Harry Potter is what introduced me to fanfiction. I was 15? I think when I first started writing HP fanfic. This year I celebrated my ELEVENTH anniversary on FFN. (If you look at my profile, please forgive some of the horrible, horrible writing on there.) I grew up with the animated Hobbit (and the animated LOTR movies, but we won't go there.."Frodo of the nine fingers, and the ring of doooooom") then I read the books when I was 13 or 14. A friend in my freshman year of high school introduced me to another love: DISCWORLD! Jingo was my first but Small Gods and Night Watch have to be among my absolute favorites. Twilight didn't appear until I was already a student at BYU. I didn't really pay attention to them until I got a job working at the BYU library...specifically the Juvenile section. I would always see these Twilight books on the sorting shelves and people would constantly be asking for them. I decided to read them. I have a confession here: I DO like Twilight. Its fun. Its corny, its cotton candy for the brain. sometimes that is what I am in the mood for. And then I know exactly where to find it. Sometimes, granted I want to punch Bella and tell her to grow a spine. But then I also like the fourth book best of them all. Also, I like Stephenie Meyer's The Host. I've actually had a very in depth philosophical debate about the intentions, effects and nature of the Souls. Loved Ella Enchanted (I was also once on a panel with Gail Carson Levine at LTUE--I was terribly intimidated) book is sooo much better than the movie. I like Shannon Hale a great deal. I have read about every Tamora Pierce book that has ever been written. If you can't tell, I read a lot of YA fantasy--comes from working for 3 years in the juvenile section. (If I could have that job back I would take it again in a heartbeat! unfortunately I'm not a byu student right now so no on campus job!) There are so many fantasy books I could reference that I have read or have influenced me, I can't even name them all. But when selecting a book I naturally gravitate to the sci-fi and fantasy sections--library, bookstore, amazone, everywhere!

Believe me, I've wasted ALOT more than that.

I was actually thinking along the same lines for the origin of the Shattered Plains--where Odium slew Honor. I remember one of the death whispers being something I connected to the plains...let me check Coppermind... Ah ha! There are two: Gadol in Chapter 17 “They break the land itself!” (it continues, but this is the part I find relevant) And then we have Maps in chapter 7: “And all the world was shattered!” Maps yelled, back arching, eyes wide, flecks of red spittle on his cheeks. “The rocks trembled with their steps, and the stones reached toward the heavens. We die! We die!” Maybe I'm interpreting it strangely, but it sounds to me like it could be a fight there. And you are right about Urithru being built closer to Honor (chapter 35 epigraph): “Though many wished Urithiru to be built in Alethela, it was obvious that it could not be. And so it was that we asked for it to be placed westward, in the place nearest to Honor.” Though the shattered plains are not really west of much besides the sea, however since we've already seen two Shard holders reshape continents (first Rashek and then Sazed)this might not mean much. Do we know where Alethela actually was? naming similarity suggests that it would be similar to the location of Alethkar, but no guarantee. Are we told its location or relative location at any time? The idea that the Shattered Plains might have been near where Urithru was and close to Honor brings back something I've been pondering on for a while..."Honor Chasm" HAS to mean a whole lot more than we've seen so far.

Yeah, you're right--the aluminum is a skull cap thing under his hat. I must have read it wrong.

I find the idea that koloss being naturally more susceptible to emotional allomancy interesting. I didn't catch that connection until I read this thread. I remembered the effect of aluminum, but I hadn't thought about the koloss and their particular Flaw. But it has to be said that that koloss-blooded bandit can't be very smart if he is more susceptible to emotional allomancy and decides to discard his protection for a prettier hat. However, my original thought upon reading about the aluminum in the hat was "tin-foil hat!" Only Brandon could come up with a magic system where an honest-to-god tin foil hat makes perfectly logical sense!

Hello all! I'm Kateydidnt. I'm really glad I stumbled onto this site because I just finished Way of Kings and have no one to talk to about it with! My roommate hasn't read it yet which leaves me annoyed that I can't discuss all the crowning moments of awesome contained therein. I first got into Sanderson's work when, about five years ago, a roommate handed me this book called Elantris and told me it was by her creative writing professor (lucky duck!). I've been hooked ever since. I've read most of his published work now (working my way through WoT--how's that for author appeal? I never had the desire to read Wheel of Time until Brandon was selected to complete it). I'm planning on haunting the BYU library at some point when Dragonsteel is in so I can read that too. Other than that I lead a pretty boring life--I spend a lot of time working and a lot of time reading and very little time socializing. Looking forward to having some fun here!