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  1. Figured I'd bring some attention to this and this thread is a bit more active than the fan fiction corner. It's a Quest (Reader driven narrative game) set in Era 2 of Mistborn. Check it out if you like.
  2. Hi. I am currently doing a quest (a reader driven interactive narrative) on 4chan's /qst/ board. I figured a good way to find interested participants would be to advertise at the hub of the Cosmere fandom. It is currently running right here: https://boards.4chan.org/qst/thread/1047081 The pitch is a bounty hunter during Era 2 of Mistborn is going to a town named Crowther to try and find revenge. Here is the first Thread so you can read it and see if it interests you: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/979396/ And my twitter where I post when the threads are live: https://twitter.com/WhistlerDM Thanks for checking it out!
  3. Does Scadrian metal, with it's abnormal investiture, have special properties? For example, can you make a hemalurgic spike out of metal from Roshar or is a Scadrian metal neccessary? Does an Allomancer need Scadrian metal to burn or would Nalthis metals do? Ditto for Ferrings.
  4. The biggest point towards this is, in my opinion, the fact that the only thing separating the kandra from mistwraiths is the 'block' the Lord Ruler put between their cognitive and physical realms. Brandon has said it's more that they're mentally handicapped than non-sentient. As far as I know it's not the stolen spiritweb that bridges that gap as much as the particular investiture. Blessings may need a specific form of hemalurgy, but I'm not sure why breaths would be unable to substitute as long as you used the proper command.
  5. So, in order to crate something with hemalurgy you need to charge a spike with a bit of someone's spiritweb ripped off from them, correct? There have been mentions as to how the spikes and breaths have similar effects, i.e. losing a breath would be like getting spiked, though much less harmful. So if they have similar effects would it be feasible to give a mistwraith a breath with a specific command like "Become a kandra" or "Connect the cognitive and physical realms of this creature" and have it work to produce a kandra without spikes. Also would this consume the breaths like it does with Lifeless or would the kandra become an awakened object. Is it even possible to awaken something that is already alive, if not fully sentient?
  6. It is completely fair for him to throw that in her face. First off he doesn't know she was being egged on. From his position it was all her, so it was completely fair for him to assess her from that interaction. And if he was lighteyed (enough to outrank Shallan anyway) he probably wouldn't even be on that patrol. And even if he was lighteyes and on that patrol Tyn might have changed tacks because pissing off a lighteyes of high enough rank could have stormed up their plans later. One of the reasons they thought they were safe was because he was of lower rank than them in their society and when they infiltrated higher society meeting him was almost a non-factor. Basically one of the reasons they did the whole scam was that it had a good reward (training for Shallan) for minimal risk (who cares what a darkeyes thinks of you or the fact that you are inconveniencing him). So yeah, it's fair of Kaladin to view that as Shallan being a lighteyes jerk who thinks nothing of preying on darkeyes. Because that's exactly what she did.
  7. You aren't wrong, but we are judging this from an outside perspective. From our perspective everyone is more or less equal as 'people' though we tend to err on the side of the main characters. We are those nosy friends that always judge people and their situations. But, y'know, their fictional. So it's okay.
  8. Personally I think this stratification of society is pretty interesting and I hope Brandon continues to reference it and doesn't just let people... get away with it I guess. I think the biggest transgressor as far as being an chull for no reason is probably Shallan. I think it's a bunch of little things that show how she fundamentally doesn't view darkeyes on the same level as her and other lighteyes. I think the most glaring point of this is that she calls she calls Kaladin bridgeboy throughout the entire book, right through the end. Adolin does this too, but about halfway through he stops using it as an insult and starts using it as a term of endearment with Kaladin. Shallan meanwhile keeps this slightly patronizing tone the entire time (at least that's the impression I got). My biggest problem I think is that while Adolin recognizes that he is being unfair and just has some misplaced aggression he is taking out on the bridgemen Shallan seems to keep thinking she is being perfectly fair and balanced when she really isn't. Kaladin was a bodyguard and he spoke out of turn a lot and was hostile and rust, but that doesn't excuse treating him less respect. I guess what pisses me off about the situation isn't that they were insulting him, but that they were insulting him in part because he was lower on the social ladder. tl;dr Adolin and Shallan were both dicks to Kaladin and Kaladin was a dick to them back. However Adolin is more justified as his and Kaladin's mutual dickishness is more a personal problem which they sort of work out between them while Shallans dickishness stems from her looking down on Kaladin (maybe subconsciously), being the primary aggressor (the boots), and is never brought up by the narrative or remarked upon and is largely ignored.
  9. I'd recommend a sapphire color, as that is the color of the Windrunners. Upper arm seems like a good place. I know nothing about tatoos though so, you know, grain of salt.
  10. Considering how Syl feels about Cryptics and Their opposing points on the table I sort of assuming they represent the opposite ideals, while the orders near each other have something in common. For example Elsecallers were probably pretty close to opposite in temperament as skybreakers, while what's right and what is the law often, if not exclusively, overlap.
  11. To be completely honest I like Steris and Wax's relationship (what little of it we see) way more than most fictional relationships. There are piles of true love stories and love overcoming crap. This is one of the very few instances where two people are marrying for convenience, know it, and are completely okay with that. They aren't antagonistic, they both benefit, and even if they don't love each other they at least like each other enough that there isn't going to be some big blow-up or comeuppance for either of them because neither of them are evil or portrayed that way in the story. Personally I really want to see this rather unique relationship develop, rather than another love story. Yeah, there's nothing specifically barring it. I'm just wondering A. what it would bring to the story at this point. (besides representation, which is good, but could also be better served with other still living characters) and B. Why would it matter. (It wouldn't, besides giving a reason for Navani to not be sad over Galivar's death, which could be an important future plot point, I don't know.)
  12. I'd disagree with the idea that he was good-hearted. He was trying to return the gods and cause an unnecessary Desolation in the first place in order to, judged by what Amaram believes, restore the dominance of the Vorin Church. Basically murdering hundreds of thousands of people in an attempt to restore a church that was corrupt. Sounds kind of like an cremhole to me, but I admit we don't know the full story yet. @Aminar In Alloy of Law Ranette, who gives Wax Vindicator is confirmed as a lesbian. I don't have a problem with Galivar being gay, I just don't think it matters whether or not he was. It's not impossible, just unlikely I think, given his actions.
  13. "I'm going to strangle that- She cut off, feeling a stab of depression. She had ended up killing Tyn."
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