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  1. Was your experiment, perchance, on the effects of being slapped? With yourself as one of the participants? That could explain such a result.
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  2. This idea came from seeing names like Balance and Sacrifice suggested both for the Nightwatcher, and for the Silence Divine Shard. (I like the name Sacrifice more than Balance.) We know almost nothing about either of them, but they do feel similar. Also, the Silence Divine planet is in the same solar system as Roshar. So I think this Shard fled Roshar to the other planet, and the Nightwatcher is a splinter it left behind. Also, the price paid by the Oathpact is pretty terrible. It may involve the power of Sacrifice, not just Honor, or maybe not Honor at all. Honor's principle seems to be that you not do horrible things in the name of good, and asking the Heralds to submit to torture is pretty nasty. One thing I can't work in, is that if there's any fleeing of Shards from one planet to another, shouldn't they be fleeing to Roshar? That's what the myth of the Tranquiline Halls suggests. I don't know what to do with that. edit: I just learned Eri had basically the same theory a few months before I wrote this. It's nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks up crazy stuff like this!
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  3. me, I'm convinced Hoid is a Time Lord. it's the only thing that makes sense.
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  4. I agree with you for sure about the Third Shard, it mirrors the belief I've had for a while now because of the fact that Nightwatcher didn't seem to fit with the other Shards we thought were on Roshar. There is one problem though that I haven't been able to answer successfully for myself. It says that Odium killed Honor. Honor's splinters (spren) are all over Roshar so presumably Roshar was where Honor was Splintered. That implies that Odium was there to Splinter him. But then that creates a conflict with another fact. We know that over the history of Roshar there have been three Shards there. But if Honor is there, and so is Cultivation (Brandon has confirmed this) and then this new Sacrifice or whatever we call it then Odium could never have been on Roshar. So it begs the question, how exactly did Honor die if Odium wasn't there to kill him? Did Odium get someone else to do it? The only possibility that I've been able to come up with seems unlikely to me. I've wondered if Honor was bound by his intent to Splinter himself once the Oathpact was broken. Odium would still be indirectly responsible there. But I kind of don't like that idea so I hope others have better ones. The other reason I like the idea that the Nightwatcher is the remnant of a Shard that left Roshar is that it explains the name, "the Old Magic". The people of Roshar can still remember distantly when it was used, but now that the Shard has left, it cannot power the magic any longer, so the magic has vanished as well. What I want to know is, what is the Nightwatcher? Is it power gaining sentience like the Seons or does someone hold a large Splinter, like the Returned. If it is a person, who was it, and how did they get it? The third Shard theory also explains fairly well why Roshar's system is the only one to have two Shardworlds. The Shard fled Roshar but it didn't go far. About the fleeing of people, I tend to believe that people fled to Roshar first from Honor's world (Tranquiline Halls). Where this Sacrifice went after that doesn't necessarily have to be reflected in Roshar's mythology.
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  5. Yeah I will do that right away!<div>EDIT: I have completed the first youtube video, http://goo.gl/YkDvA I will probably take longer doing the other parts, I have some work do be getting on with. But it is good fun! </div><div>EDIT AGAIN: I have now completed the second youtube clip, the link is still the same as before. </div>
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  6. Pssst Don't eat the waffle. The syrup is spiked.
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  7. I would like to announce that I walked into my Biotechnology final today fully expecting to fail worse than the French in WW2, and instead walked out with the second highest score in the class!
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  8. Really, are we going to turn this thread into a discussion about how sex is only "okay" if the people are married? I may be new here and not know everyone that well, but this statement seems a bit off since sex works the same married or not, and can produce kids in both situations. If this was sarcasm, I missed it.
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  9. I was bored the other day, so I looked up the compositions of all the Allomantic metals and alloys and overlayed them on the periodic table. I thought the result might be interesting to some of you. As Sanderson himself has said, it appears to be pretty random. A couple curiosities: Most basic metals are paired with alloys for which they are also the base metal, that is, the most predominant metal in the alloy. The exceptions are brass, which contains more copper than zinc, and bendalloy, which contains more lead, tin, and bismuth than cadmium. Depending on the exact composition, electrum might also fall into this category (if I recall correctly, electrum usually contains between 45% to 55% gold, with the rest silver). Most of the alloys are (as far as we know) binary alloys, combining only two elements. The exceptions are bendalloy (cadmium with lead, tin, and bismuth) and nicrosil (chromium with nickel and silicon, as well as trace amounts of magnesium). Most of the alloys have significant quantities (10% or more) of the alloying elements. The notable exception to this is steel, which contains less than 2% carbon. (Side note: If I were to guess the composition of Allomancer's steel, I expect it would be 0.8% carbon and 99.2% iron. This is known as eutectoid steel, and has the property that it transitions from a the ferrite phase to the austenite phase at a unique temperature while heating, rather than transitioning to ferrite + austenite and then to austenite over a range of temperatures.) I should probably get back to studying for my exams now. Have fun!
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  10. Just so you know, that's the way it's supposed to work. Sex outside marriage is dysfunctional, but sex inside marriage isn't. So what you complain about is actually much more realistic than the common view.
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