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  1. With no where else to go, Khamsi had returned to the inn, despite the owner's untimely demise. There had been nowhere else to sleep, and considering that the villagers seemed untrustworthy of even each other at this point, it didn't seem the best course of action to beg a room with one of them. Besides, the bed she'd slept in before had been so comfy. How could she give that up? It seemed somehow wrong, though, and as she looked out on the empty common room, she frowned. The Spruce Thicket had not had a large staff to begin with, and it seems with the innkeeper's death, what help had been here had run off. Running off seemed like a good idea; too bad she had signed that contract with the mayor the day she arrived, after a few too many pints to be able to read properly. Why he had included a clause about defending the village, she had no idea - what could he honestly expect from a gleewoman? Dazzle the Trollocs with juggling? Admittedly, her skills were very impressive, but she could eat fire, not breath it. While there was no way the contract could truly be enforced, especially with the mayor dead, if it got out that she had fled without providing the services she had promised, her reputation would be ruined. She wouldn't be able to perform in an empty field, let alone noble courts. Shaking her head, she sighed. She was a woman of her word, and would fulfill her contract. Light burn it. She ran a finger along the duty surface of one table, considering. Her eyes scanned the room again, feeling the emptiness. A place like this should not be empty.... Several moments passed, and then Khamsi nodded sharply. Heading into the back storage room, she rummaged around until she found a large board. Wiping it clean, she gave it a quick inspection, then brought it back up and into the kitchens. She stared at it for another moment, then fetched a piece of worn charcoal from a pocket within her sleeve. Several minutes later, a new sign hung on the door. Brushing her hands on her cloak, Khamsi stared at the sprawling calligraphy with pride, admiring the intricate and flowing design work done along the sides. She could have done more with additional time and materials, but not bad for a quarter hour and a single piece of charcoal. The Spruce Thicket - she wondered if she was allowed to change the name - was once again open for business. Someone, after all, had to get the townsfolk drunk. Khamsi has decided to take over the inn, because why not. This should have gone up much earlier, but an unfortunate power outage early this morning and a busy day prevented this. Just pretend this scene took place before the common was commandeered by Erik. I would have made a graphic for the sign, but too much actual paying design work to do at the moment, so just pretend it's super-impressive, k? Khamsi will vote later, if she votes; I just wanted to get this bit of RP up.
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  2. Ok, so I had this theory the other day while I was contemplating a new character or stoy I could write for a potential Fan-Fic or story of my own. Anyways... Nalan is THE Skybreaker right? That means that he must uphold the law, every law, everywhere. What the Stormfather says is considered as law to a Surgebinder right? So if ol' Stormy(not Stormageddon, the other one) says to his Spren "DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES AT ALL return to Roshar or you'll be grounded," that would be a law in Nalan's eyes. SO, he goes around killing Surgebinders because that's the easiest way to kill a spren, THAT is the real reason why he doing what he is doing. He's just trying to carry out the Stormfather's commands to the spren. another theory was that he was killing Cutivation's spren because she sent them against Honor's will. The only Surgebinders we see him kill or try to kill is a Truthseer and an Edgedancer both of which are theorizd elsewhere to be Cultivation spren right? We know from Wendel that his "Mother" sent him across which would make one assume she sent her other spren out into Roshar for the same reason, thereby, in the words of Mufasa, Deliberatley Diobeying Honor. I think this is my first actual theory so please, tear it apart and make me see the truth... KURK, get over here!
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  3. I have been reading fantasy (and sci-fi) all my life, and I just finished listening to both audiobooks of the Stormlight Archive. I recently started doing that with my long commute. When a sword was given to Szeth and it seemed to be Nightblood, I was flabbergasted. What is Nightblood doing in this series? I had to come online to see if I was wrong and found this site. I had no idea that Sanderson's books were interrelated. One thing I learned about from listening to an audiobook is I don't pronounce the names in my head anymore when I am reading. I see the letters and view them as a symbol (I think). When I first started reading the forums I was reading the names of the characters and not knowing who they were talking about; I had to sound them out and then it clicked. Weird. I have been reading his books since Elantris and love that his books keep getting better and better. He seems to be growing as a writer with every book. Words of Radiance is his best work to date in my opinion. The only bad thing is that I have to wait for the next one. Edit: I put in a spoiler alert because someone who didn't read it yet might not want to know about Nightblood
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  4. I have developed a new theory, one accounting for the purple chart in Way of Kings that is so similar to the Radiant chart. I call it: The Knights Absorbent The Voidbinding equivalent of the Knights Radiant Premise The Way of Kings comes with two similar chart illustrations included within. One is a chart detailing the ten Surges, and the glyphs for the ten orders of Knights Radiant, who are Surgebinders. It is highly likely the purple chart corresponds to the Voidbinders. On the chart (seen below), we have ten corresponding icons to the Surges, and ten corresponding Glyphs for the Orders. Thus, there must be equivalents to the Surges and the Knights Radiant - enter the Knights Absorbent. Logic The term given to the users of Surges are called Surgebinders. Why are they called Surges? When a Surgebinder activates their abilities, they begin by concentrating Stormlight and gathering power. This high concentration of power leaks from them, and they can release it through Surgebinding. The Surge in Surgebinding is this concentration of power release - the power is Surging. We know that the opposing force is called Voidbinding. It stands to reason then, that the opposite of the ten Surges would be the ten Voids. Indeed, we can see that the glyphs for the Voids are oppositely symmetrical as compared to the Surges. If Surges are an increased concentration, it makes sense that Voids are the opposite - a lack, an area of decreased concentration. We can logically see then that Voidbinding creates a low density area where Surgebinding created a high density area. The Knights Radiant earned their name by their Radiance. Nothing is more sensible. They Radiate light and power, because of how a concentration works - it wants to diffuse into areas of lower concentration (e.g. everything else in this case) Voidbinding then, would have the opposite effect. Nearby concentrations of power would seem to be drawn into the Voidbinder, it would seem that instead of Radiating, they Absorb. The ten Glyphs of the Knights Radiant demand an equal and opposing order of Knights from the Voidbinders ten glyphs. If the Knights Radiant are termed such because they radiate, then we must call this opposing order the Knights Absorbent. But without the Heralds to model themselves after, any spren with which they bonded would have no shape on which to base their Shardblade, no form on which to base their Shardplate. No, they could not have made Shardplate or Blade at all - they must look to the weaponry which defines their order. The Knights Absorbent and then spren then, must be equipped with a deadly weapon, well known to many, which comes from an item with an absorbency like no other: The cardboard tube sword taken from a roll of paper towels. This weapon has a long history, of being used both in mighty wars and conflicts, and by some of the most renowned duelists in history. It is truly a weapon with an unimpeachable past, with a Bounty of techniques passed down from father to son through the ages. But what of Shardplate? The Knights Absorbent must have armor as well, but not hard armor to stop a blow - no, they must have armor that absorbs all impacts, armor that can take any punishment given to them, armor which has been associated with cardboard tube swords for eons. Yes, it must be pillow armor. There is no other option, and the evidence is clear. Below, we display an artist's rendition of the fearsome Knights Absorbent, which we will likely not see for several books. Beware of spoilers! And beware of nightmares, for their depiction is truly the stuff of terror. Radiants be warned, your doom is at hand! Sources: All Evidence comes directly from the purest of Logic and the Gospel of Brandon, may the Everstorm Reign forever.
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  5. Hi I'm Slimy 12345678910 I am a friend of Queen Elsa Steelheart and she convinced me to joined 17th Shard. I have read Elantris, Way Of Kings, Words Of Radiance, Warbreaker, Steelheart, The Rithmatist, Mistborn, Alloy of Law and the 1st book in Wheel of Time. So, Hi
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  6. From late December to early January, my parents took me on a vacation. I generally hate vacation, because everything good about it (shopping, going on the internet, reading books) is something I can do at home, and it's packaged with worse showers, bad food, uncomfortable beds, and stupid air travel. Also, my parents always want me to go look at excruciatingly boring things which are supposedly "life-changing attractions". We were staying in Hilton Head, South Carolina. One day, which was almost certainly in January, I saw a man walk into a clothing store I was in. He looked exactly like Brandon Sanderson, but I knew I was being silly because Brandon Sanderson lives in Utah. I considered going over to him and asking him if he was Brandon, but I'm pretty shy IRL, I knew Brandon lived in Utah, and I didn't want to be embarrassed if it wasn't him. He left a few minutes later, and I left the store to look at his plates. But I couldn't see where he had gone, and I only saw cars from South Carolina. I decided that it wasn't Brandon, but felt amused that some random guy from South Carolina looked exactly like him. Today, while sitting in math class, I realized that Brandon Sanderson would have gone to South Carolina in January because of the release of A Memory of Light. Since he looked exactly like Brandon, and was around the place where Brandon was at the time, I'm almost certain it was him. I was right next to my favourite author, and I didn't even say a word to him. I know some of you have met him, I'm just a high school student from Ottawa, Canada, so the odds that I would be going to one of his tours are slim. The realization of what I missed out on has pretty much ruined my day. Now I'm desperately wishing that I could have said something to him. Ugh. I need some reassurance or something from my fellow Brandon fans. *Kicks self.*
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  7. Heeey everybody! My name's Hailey! I've been a huge Brandon Sanderson fan ever since I devoured read Mistborn in high school. I've never truly joined a forum in my life, so forgive me if I royally fudge something up (the likelihood is...pretty high). My friend--he goes by Erai on here--convinced me to sign up, so maybe he can get brownie points for that. Haha. I've read all of Sanderson's Cosmere books besides Elantris & Alloy of Law. Elantris somehow got dropped like a year ago and I'm right in the middle of AoL now!! (Wayne?? Wayne. Just. Wayne is perfect.) Not much to say about me besides I'm a gigantic fan of fiction, particularly fantasy and YA, I'm a senior in college, and I think seahorses are way too cute to be real life things. I guess I'm hoping to meet lots of fellow Cosmere friends because not having many people to gush over these books is kind of wreaking havoc on my happiness. So please don't hesitate to chat me up because I already think you guys are super amazing!! My question to you: if you could go on a super stellar date with a Brandon Sanderson character, who would it be and where would you go?
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  8. Here's how Taravangian comes across to me. Here's a man, a deeply compassionate and caring man, who is so concerned with the well-being of others that he is personally funding the hospitals with no expense to those treated. He is friends with Gavilar, who is having visions from Honor. From these visions, the two of them know a Desolation is coming, and perhaps even make plans to work towards stopping it together, but we have no way of knowing that. But then, Gavilar is assassinated. T. is left cut off from the source of all of his information for how to stop the deaths of the people he deeply cares about, and turns in grief or desperation to the Nightwatcher, who grants the boon and curse of fluctuating intelligence/inversely proportional to his empathy (although one potential theory that I like is that the boon was the single day of super-powered intelligence and the curse was the inverse relationship between his intelligence/empathy after. There is nothing in the text that requires his super-intelligence on the day of the Diagram to be associated with zero-empathy.) As a direct result of this, he has the Day of the Diagram (which should become the official title ). A moment of clarity so perfect and precise that he can see by the logical extensions of his own (dare I say it?) supernaturally-powered reason exactly how to influence the predictable course of human history in such a way as to produce the highest possible chance (from his perspective) of saving humanity. And then, he is left alone, cut off again from the source of brilliance and foresight and ability to plan for the future. He knows that Honor is dead, either from the visions or from insight gained from his flash of intelligence. For whatever reason, he believes the Knights Radiant are unreliable (perhaps the secret that destroyed them before has something to do with this). He remembers being smart enough to see all of this, and has committed himself to that course of action. From the information he had on the Day of the Diagram,TM he has laid out the best possible course. Like Shaggai said, he is not capable of coming up with another plan comparable to it. He and Dalinar together are not capable. He and Dalinar and Jasnah and Kaladin and Shallan and Syl and Pattern and Ivory altogether likely lack the combined intelligence to come up with a superior plan. They certainly lack the information. So he's locked himself into a course that he can't get out of. Like Shaggai says, he is morally committed to it now. There isn't any backing down for him now, unless a way that is demonstrably superior in every way. It's a simple, logical position. In fact, it's the basic operating principle of science. The scientific method is inherently conservative. You hang on to the descriptions of reality you have, even as the discrepancies mount, because there isn't anything better. And when a new model that is demonstrably (and consistently so over time) better at describing reality is established, you jump ship (after thoroughly testing the model). Taravangian is acting the same way. Of course, it may not be the right position. In fact, given the state of things in the books so far, it almost certainly isn't the right position. And the Diagram certainly suffers from a crippling lack of the ability to perfectly self-correct. (It should here be noted that the Diagram has some limited self-correcting ability built into it, and Mr. T. has attempted to access more by the use of the Death Rattles, but it almost certainly won't be enough to counteract the full force of accumulated error over time.) And this is the point that I make it clear that Mr. T's way of saving humanity is an awful way. An absolutely bloody, morally bankrupt and awful way to save humanity. But he believes that it is the only way. And if it were, in fact, the only way, then the only moral choice would be to follow it. Because saving the world is a morally higher cause than the life of any individual or any group of individuals. But, from the viewpoints of other characters we have seen, it isn't the only way. And because we know that, we know that Taravangian's plan is an immoral and a wrong one, because there is a better option. But he can't see that. As far as he can see, his only option is to follow the Diagram exactly, because he is no longer intelligent enough to put together workable alternatives. And until he is confronted with evidence that there is, in fact, such a workable alternative (and one that doesn't require wading through rivers of blood to get there), he is morally incapable of changing his path. My prediction is that one of the important sub-plots of the first 5 books will be Mr. T slowly coming face-to-face with the fact that there was a more ethically acceptable option for saving humanity than the Diagram. His actions have been justified so far only by the strongest necessity. The existence of another viable and workable option removes that necessity, and so as he realizes that Dalinar's option is, in fact, workable, he will have to come to terms (or fail to do so) with the fact that his actions were not necessary, and therefore were not justified. I believe that this realization will break him. I don't know if he will heal over time, whether he will find himself dead at the hands of some justice-dealing hero, or dead by his own hand in remorse. But I think he will break when he realizes that things didn't have to be the way the Diagram outlined. Needless to say, I find Taravangian an exquisitely tragic character.
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  9. Are you kidding? If I saw him online, I'd be enraged that he was wasting time dealing with us dweebs (no offense) instead of writing Stones Unhallowed.
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  10. (BTW Death, you are too nice for people to NOT upvote you.
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  11. "Laughing fool, as one of the Twinthrone's Frostknights I can not allow ye to duel my queen," BT drew his black broadsword in one hand and summoned his frostblade in the other, a layer of frost formed around him and solidified in to a set of plate armor, "If you want a duel, I've got one for you. LEFTY!! My soulcast beer drinking table if you would be so kind." BT looked at the queen, "Any flavor you could possibly imagine Queen Elsa, I will gladly retrieve for you as soon as I'm done with the Frostbitten joke." BreathTaker stared at the Fool, his normally black/brown eyes glowing an icy blue with frost around the sockets, "Now, you horse faced son of a mare, pick your weapon. Sword, Brew, or slap fight? I am prepared for anything you choose," (Btw, I'm just playing the part. Just as I've been playing the super nice drunk, I rarely get the opportunity to drink in real life and I can't remember the last time I got drunk ((pun absolutely intended)))
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  12. Killing the surgebinder won't kill the spren, as long as the person didn't break their oaths.
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  13. Hmm not TOTALLY preposterous: "This time, she wore a uniform: camouflage trousers and dark tunic." (Insignia) Apparently I'm a ninja! Edit: I just thought I'd take a quick look in my next nearest book: 'Still, three thousand boxings... That would be enough to tempt even the most logical thief " #mistbornarewaycoolerthanninjas Edit 2: Thats it. I'm definitely Mistborn because I just hit top 16 rank!!!
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  14. Welcome! Draw something! Draw a rockbud!
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  15. Appears outside the party hall carrying some trays with a large barrel levitating behind her. "I brought piggies in a blanket. Oh! and some ginger ale."
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  16. More like Invision Power Board got more popular and they are coding to it Don't worry, they are just machines. I kill them before they rise up against us. I love the smell of dead spambots in the morning. It's basically my routine now.
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  17. Shallan, I filled up the background with different items related to her character from the books. I always imagined Pattern as a weird mobius strip conundrum.
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  18. So, I saw a poster online that said you should pick up the nearest book and turn to page 45. The poster says that the first complete sentence describes your life. (Exhibit A.) Cool, I thought foolishly. I should do that. It was just my luck that there was a children's animal book right behind me. Ahem, "Skunks' powerful and unpleasant smell is enough to make people stay away from them." Has anyone else ever done so? Has this trick ever thoroughly insulted you before?
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  19. So I have this theory that Navani will become a Sky breaker for two reasons one is after reading this quote from Words of Radiance - "The considerable abilities of the skybreakers for making such amounted to an almost divine skill, for which no specific Surge or spen grants capacity, but however the order came to such an aptitude, the fact of it was real and acknowledged even by their rivals." (WOR pg 636.) Combined with what Szeth experiences after being brought back to life by a fabrial at the end of the book "impossible." " not if it is done before the brain dies... you could be restored with the right fabrial." Nalan then invites Szeth to join the Skybreakers the order he used to lead/inspire whatever. I think that the Skybreakers were really good at making fabrial and so is Navani. Also Skybreakers considered justice to be most important, and when Dalinar is betrayed on the shattered plains and Navani hears about it she doesn't write a Glyph for hope or mercy or victory or strength, she writes Justice. Maybe that a bit of foreshadowing maybe not. If you think that this doesn't work because Navani is not broken enough, just remember that she has raised Jashina as a daughter and a failure king as a son, on top of the fact that she straight up tells Dalinar the there was a darker side to Galavier. All in all maybe I just grabbing at wind spren here but maybe not
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  20. (It's true. Who would've thought that Death is….a really nice guy?)
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  21. Laughing Fool distractedly glances at BreathTaker. "My quarrel is not with you, friend. I would prefer to avoid conflict between us, if possible." The Fool draws a long, thin blade. Light plays along its edge like sunrise reflecting off an arctic lake. He takes a stance, movements flowing like quicksilver. He calmly draws the blade across his arm, letting the blood pool before he paints a foreign design across the length of the blade. "Half of combat is psychological," the Fool declares with a giggle. "The other half is talent." Without warning, Laughing Fool lunges abruptly at BreathTaker, striking violently and aggressively. Just as abruptly, he feints and rolls backwards, positioning himself so that Elsa Steelheart stands between himself and BreathTaker. He raises his sword menacingly. The bloodrunes on his blade begin to glow faintly. "Queen of the Newcago Court; defend yourself," the Fool declares in a emotionless, detached voice. All levity and humor has vanished from his demeanour.
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  22. "Oh, yes please," BT said forming a glass of ice in his hand and a chair behind him to wait for this Fool to answer him. He also formed a wonderful throne right behind the queen for her to sit. (I feel like I'm basically Sub-Zero) His armor disappeared and he sat after the queen, "I really do enjoy this blend, more so than the plain cherry soda I have."
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  23. An awesome party deserves an awesome table. Would you like the dragon's head seat, my Queen?
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  24. First of all, that is a great post. I thought Nalan was doing it in an attempt to stop the upcoming desolation, because he thought without surgebinders it wouldn't happen. Due to his code he could only go after people who had committed crimes. One of the arguements made by the Parshendi for trying Stormform was seeing Kaladin surgebinding so he may have been right. Those are my thoughts anyway. It may be similar to Amaram seeking to bring back the Voidbringers in an effort to bring back the Radiants and return the world to more of a Hierocracy state. The spren came back because they saw something terrible coming, but maybe them coming back caused it?
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  25. I completely agree, he's gaining power and will soon be second in fame only to Tolkien (Hi by the way) This place is immense and epic, there are theories about everything and pretty much everyone is awesome. Especially me... just saying.
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  26. Yep it is Lady Kliss, whose name is like the assassin Liss who gives the impression of being a vapid Noblewoman but is secretly an informant.
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  27. Aye, Nalan's reasoning - in his own words - is that even small criminals, who are also Surgebinders, are much more dangerous than, say, crime lords because their Surgebindings (or something related to them) can bring back the Desolations.
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  28. But Nalan said he kills surgebinding criminals because they cause Desalation, he never mentioned anything about spren prohibition.
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  29. Piggies in a blanket?!? This makes up for all the plagues, wars and famines through history!! I love you Death!
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  30. WOR, when the Reshi Islands moved, And she could see it was a greatshell. One of my favourite pieces of world building right there.
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  31. Oh, great. I never get good lines with these. Try 1: Wild Cards, edited by George R. R. Martin. "They slammed together, draped over the canister, their hands entangled on each other's suits and the fuse to the bomb." So….my life sounds really naughty, taken out of context?
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  32. My problem with a Wounded Gazelle, more seriously speaking, is this: and this is just going to be me speaking from my recent (painful ) experience on Team Evil in Game 5 (as a Ghostblood.) First, you want to rack up the kills, crudely put. You want to disable the Dreamwalker, and take out roles critical to the village, like the Wisdom, killing roles like the Wolf-Brother--and the Channeller. I'm interested to see there's only one kill on the first night, but this is exactly what doesn't make sense to me. I think it's reasonable to assume Team Evil is decently competent. Just as much as we are. So, let me list down the reasons a Wounded Gazelle sacrifices far more than expected returns. 1. Our current reactions say it all. The immediate question that came up, courtesy of Joe was: "Is this a Wounded Gazelle gambit?" The fact was, it was chancy that we'd have accepted it at all as indication Awes could be trusted. (But, you might say, the fact that most of us are rejecting the gambit--mightn't that indicate it is an acceptable risk?) Fair enough. Let me go on. 2. I've already said you want to rack up the kills as a Team Evil player. For one, every night cycle you delay your kill is another cycle in which the village is free to set up circles of trust, to start checking for inconsistencies, to start using their roles strategically to verify and to hunt you down. Trust is a depreciating resource in this game if you're Evil. Sacrificing that to put yourself in an uncertain position with no guarantee you'd be given the trust you want? Uh... (Note as well Wilson's response: the last successful time this was deployed (Game 2, I believe), the person in question had three lives.) 3. What would be mitigating factors? Using one kill on an Evil player and the other on a villager. Have we seen this? No. There is only one night kill. I believe that tells us something too, but I'm not going to go into that right now. I brought up Game 5 several times. Please try not to hold it against me; it was my formative experience in learning how to play these games 4. Now, here's another potential mitigating factor: if whatever blocks the kill is a renewable resource. Except it isn't. As Grey has already pointed out, unless you're best friends with a Wisdom (I grant that the role isn't Village-only), doing a WG either wastes the only extra life of an Aiel-blooded, or a precious Channeller weave. Here's why this is important: as I said before, trust decays over time. By the end of the game, having that extra life, that extra weave to block a Villager counter-strike on you is very crucial. 5. Here is the last reason I believe it isn't a WG. As I've said, and will say again, Game 5 was my first game, and I was thrown into Team Evil. To some extent, my expectations on the tactics Team Evil (DFs here) will employ have been shaped by that game. Shaped as well by tactics that Awes has employed as an evil player. This will not be apodictic certainty, and people shift playstyles, but I did propose us trying a WG in that game. Awes was the person who shot me down and told me not to waste the kill. Make of that what you will. The short of it is, I think we finally do have confirmation of at least one player. I don't want to see us waste it, and I want us to get on with business proper. In particular, I want to see an explanation from lev about why he did what he did. I will agree with Newan that an aggressive attitude towards lynching from Day One doesn't necessarily make you evil. It could be a matter of playstyle. But I will also say that unless we're dealing with a very passive evil team here, Team Evil generally wants lynches to go through. And lynches that come late in the day, after we've had some information gleaned? I'd say that even if they don't immediately call for a lynching, they'd cry out for explanation. And I'm going to wait to hear what it is. P.S. I may or may not be trying to move discussion along because I have a camp and therefore limited/intermittent internet access tomorrow I will not be able to be as active in the discussion, therefore, and am trying to be amply helpful now. Edit: Colour Editor, why have you betrayed me? Edit 2: Reason isn't sufficient? Fine. Go scan him. For goodness' sake, this isn't much of a gambit if all it takes is for the Viewer to take a peek at him tonight. For whatever reason, Fain hasn't yet struck. Let's use this and take down some DFs. Fighting!
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  33. When I was finishing Words of Radiance I was sitting alone in my dorm, screaming "NIGHTBLOOD! NIGHTBLOOOOOD!"
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  34. "Tell me how you know God exists." "I once spent the greater part of a year being digested." I'm assuming that's the quote you used?
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  35. From what Brandon has told us, Jasnah's actions seem far less... controlled on the ship. She was woken up in the middle of the night, likely by a dagger in her chest (if she had been awake when the assassins got to her, she probably would've Soulcast them into something far less inclined to stab things). So she wakes up in terrible pain, panics, her fight-or-flight instinct kicks in (with the flight option dominating), and all she wants is to get away - which agrees with the WoB telling us that her "last" thoughts were of escaping. She probably didn't remember Shallan until after she found herself in Shadesmar, and by then coming back would've already been difficult (because of another WoB telling us that Elsecalling isn't exactly precise even for someone who knows what they are doing - and Jasnah is not such a person).
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  36. When you're bored and you start writing lists of various Cosmere things in your notebook for future reference (on the off chance that you get amnesia) and you're disappointed when you can't remember one of the Surges. EDIT: When you see a car that says Elantra and you're happy because ELANTRIS!
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  37. You said that you were wary of how much the tavern wenches are attracted to me.Since i replied to that i have wondered what would happen if i logged on and there was a new person with the username tuon, fortuona or the daughter of nine moons. I would have no idea how to react. Rand or perrin would, they've always been good with women.
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  38. Terrifying I tell you, the knights don't stand a chance :
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  39. I was thinking we could attribute some of Raoden's well being possibly to his biological mother, (which is a major assumption) as well as the idea that wealthy children are surrounded by staff who are influential but mostly attributed his character to his special relationship with Duke Roial. There is a moment in the book when Raoden thinks back to a time when his father seemed like a better man. We can give Iadon the tiniest bit of credit based on that commentary. But we don't know how the mother passed away (unless I've forgotten) or how long his dad had his special "hobby." *shudder* When we think about Shallan, having Lin (of all people--yuck!) and of course, the *tiny* bit we know of her own mother... It's amazing she has managed so well thus far. I give a little credit to Lin to damage his own reputation and social standing in an attempt to keep things going at home after such an incident. That doesn't excuse his behavior by any means. In future books we may find that the ultimate reason for that protection may have had everything to do with his group affiliations over the well being of any family member. One thing I like about Sanderson's awful characters: often their antics are based off some kind of misguided idea that they're doing something for the greater good. For me, Lin and Iadon are almost neck and neck in the race for who is the most awful parent. I just gave Lin a teeny boost because we have evidence of him occasionally trying to give his daughter a slight comfort (creepy foreshadowing lullaby) and protection. Shallan and Raoden could world hop and have some majorly emo chats about Dads, for sure. Neither of the won the parent lotto. ;-)
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  40. I agree. That was not so bad. Balefire did not troubled me in WoT. I was more bothered by the However, anti-balefire (the Flame of Tar Valon) that Egwene discovers in 5 minutes was one of the worst plot I have ever read.
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  41. Yes, it is. Also not mentioned was the Shallan costume that Mi'ch wore to the release party. If you look at the sketch that Isaac did in the sketchbook, it's actually of Mi'ch and I in our costumes.
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  42. We don't really know for sure what the "reward" for the next step in the progression is yet. Heck, we don't even know if what the plate is made out of. And I'm curious if it's really 5 truths stated in place of 5 oaths. It seems likely, but I don't know if that's a guarantee.
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  43. Shallan, because... well, duh. Quick-witted, intelligent, redheaded artist. If I didn't know any better, I'd think Brandon wrote her just to taunt me... But yes. We would have so much fun... Oh, and welcome. Happy to have you, and all that jazz. Everyone else seems to have covered the other welcoming stuff, so I'll just add that we're happy to have you. ^^
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  44. Any friend of Erai is a friend of mine, seeing as how we're brothers in arms under Queen Elsa. In answer to your question....maybe Lift once she's a little older. Or wait, no. THE STICK!!!!
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  45. I wonder if the spam bots would have greater success if instead of advertising "intercaste love marriages", they promised "Nightwatcher boons and curses".
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  46. When you're convinced that all sitcoms are set on the same planet, ruled by the Shards Misunderstanding and Overreaction.
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  47. I've been thinking a lot about the Unmade and their nature, given at how consistently they've been hinted at. They're assumed to have quite the connection with Odium / Rayse, and that makes me think they'll be a major factor in the lead up and eventual conflict between the Knights Radiant and the Voidbringers ... in some fashion or another. With that having been said, I wanted to document a few of the facts we have about the Unmade, as well as some theories or logical assumptions about each of the presumed Unmade. Oh, I'm also of the opinion that each of the Unmade either corresponds to one of the orders of Knights Radiant, or one of the Heralds, as symmetry is WAY TOO IMPORTANT on Roshar. As such, for many of the Unmade, I've got an educated guess as to where they might fall on the old double-eye diagram. I'd say this is pure theory at this point, so feel free to disregard as you see fit. General Unmade Knowledge We have some record / reference from Taravingian (an awesome source of Unmade factoids) that one of the Unmade is an "ancient, evil spren", I believe. A current theory that I subscribe to is that the Unmade are, for lack of a better term, powerful Odiumspren. I'm not sure if these spren need to bond to a person (listener or human) to be a "fully powered" Unmade, but it stands to reason that they may. I also believe that we have some recent Word of Brandon that there aren't necessarily ten Unmade. That would throw a monkeywrench into my Unmade-tie-to-KR-orders theory, but hey, that's okay. Yelig-nar (aka Blightwind) Yelig-nar is the only absolutely, positively, confirmed Unmade at this time. I mean if you can't trust Nohadon, who can you trust? Abilities: Yelig-nar apparently has the ability to kill, somewhat directly. It is the Unmade that is most personified, having broken into Nohadon's chancery (sounds like personification) and killed his wordsmen. Yelig-nar is also reportedly able to speak, though he "consumed" people and their wails accompanied him. Yikes. Association: As we'll discuss in some of the later sections of Unmade, Yelig-nar appears to be the most personified of the Unmade we currently know of, as well as one of them with the most direction and personal agency. So, given that and his nickname of "Blightwind", I'd say he's a good candidate to correspond to the Windrunners or Jezerien. Yelig-nar may not necessarily be the leader of the Unmade (if they have one), but it appears to be one of the more combat-focused Unmade at this time. Given what little we know about the Radiants still, this certainly could allow it to match up with the Radiants we know the most about. Moelach Thanks to Taravingian and his Diagram, we can say with almost complete certainty that Moelach is also an Unmade. Epigraphs 81 and 82 in Words of Radiance are two back-to-back paragraphs. While 81 talks about the nature of the Unmade, 82 talks specifically about one of them: Moelach. It's fair to say he's an Unmade. Abilities: Given what Taravingian has said, it appears that Moelach is responsible for the Death Rattles, which appear to be both precognitive and past-cognitive (wordsmith!) visions that take place at the moment before death. Interestingly, this doesn't necessarily appear to be a *bad* thing for the Radiants, etc. Where the abilities of many of the other Unmade (or projected Unmade) seem to be "evil" or "harmful" ... this one, not so much. It leads me to think that there's something else going on here that we're not aware of yet, or an additional ability. Also, Moelach is referred to as one of the Unmade with the most powerful precognitive abilities, which are shared by nearly all Unmade / Voidbringers. Interesting. Association: Welp, the precognition / visions aspect of this pretty clearly draws a line between Moelach and the Truthwatchers or Pailiah. We don't know much about the Truthwatchers (or anyone, really), but this seems to be a pretty seamless fit. Both focus very, very strongly on visions of the future. Nergaoul Again, due to Taravingian's meddling exposition, we learn of a potential Unmade. Nergaoul is referred to in the context of the Alethi Thrill, and that finding where the Thrill is strongest might help pinpoint Nergaoul. With that in mind, the way the Thrill can be seen as similar to the Death Rattles, and even the similarities in name composition between Nergaoul and Moelach (compounded vowels), we're not crazy to consider this another of the Unmade. Abilities: Nergaoul appears be responsible for, or at least have some connection to, the Thrill. The Thrill appears to be a feeling of battle-lust, or a drive to kill. WHAT A JERK. That pretty heavily smacks of Odium, and those whom we most closely align to Honor (Dalinar, Kaladin, etc.) seem to reject the Thrill, while Eshonai seems to embrace it with her stormform. Association: The first thing that came to me is how the Thrill seems to be the innate opposite of the dispassionate judgement of "Darkness". I'm inclined to place Nergaoul as linked to the Skybreakers or Nalan. Where the killing / judgement handed out by the Skybreakers appears to be logical, lawful, and in the best cases, just ... the Thrill's killing is wanton, indiscriminate, and furious. No thanks. Re-Shephir (aka the Midnight Mother) Watch, as we move from the realm of informed speculation to the realm of slightly-less-informed speculation. Re-Shephir is mentioned briefly in Epigraph 58 of WoK as the Midnight Mother ... but the Death Rattles have shared information (we think) about the Unmade in the past. Between that and the naming similarities between Yelig-nar, I think we have another Unmade here. Abilities: Re-Shephir's abilities are an open question still. The epigraph mentions giving birth to abominations, using her "essence", so it seems fairly logical to assume that Re-Shephir is responsible for creating the Midnight Essence. These strange, monstrous creatures are some that Dalinar fought during his visions of the past, and appear to be core enemies of the earlier Knights Radiant. Association: My first inclination is that the Midnight Mother's ability to create, albeit in a relatively non-creative fashion (the Midnight Essence appear to be roughly all the same), and create something totally black (as in, without light), makes me think of the Lightweavers or Shallash. Though, to be fair, a void-spun Progression surge might make sense here too. Again, knowing precious little about the Unmade, the Radiants, basically everything, this is only an informed guess. Dai-gonarthis (aka the Black Fisher) Again, we're using hints to assume that Dai-gonarthis is an Unmade, nothing more. It's name sounds like that of Yelig-nar and Re-Shephir. It is referred to in the Death Rattles, much like Re-Shephir. And that's all we've really got. Abilities: Oh, we know so very little. Something about holding sorrow and consuming it. Someone asking to "let me hurt, let me weep". Dai-gonarthis may do something to the emotions of a person, suppressing them, feeding off of them, something. It's all wild speculation, really. Association: Seriously, I've got nothing here. We simply don't know enough. I'm not convinced it holds any association with a few of the orders we seem to know the most about ... I'd be surprised if it's associated with the Windrunners, Lightweavers, Truthwatchers, or Edgedancers. But who really knows. If I had to hazard a rough guess, it may be associated with the Willshapers or Kalak. And that's mostly because the Willshapers order name seems to indicate something to do with an emotion / thought. Also, I don't know a thing about them either. So that matches up nice. Sja-anat Sja-anat is referenced in another of Dalinar's visions, mentioned by a soldier and a Radiant prior to the Thunderclast battle at the Purelake. Like Dai-gonarthis and Re-Shephir, this name has the unique dashes, and appears to be involved with Odium. Hence, it's a reasonable guess that we've got another of the Unmade here. Abilities: We don't know much about Sja-anat, Here's what we know: "Once Sja-anat touches a spren, it acts strange." The spren spotted by Dalinar had red eyes, and was referred to as "Sja-anat's spy". Ostensibly, this means that Sja-anat has the ability to change a spren by "touch", perhaps corrupting it. On a side note, the Thunderclast that appeared didn't have any direct reference to Sja-anat, it was more of a guardian, so I'm not taking it to mean anything directly associated to Sja-anat ... yet. Association: When we talk about changing things by touch, we're talking about Soulcasting, right? So perhaps Sja-anat associates to the Elsecallers or Battar. This actually makes a lot of sense ... the Elsecallers were the foremost intermediaries between man and spren, so changing spren through touch sounds very, very close to something a voidish relation to an Elsecaller might do. So that leaves us with, at this time, five six presumed Unmade. There are hints at others that may be possible, but not mentioned yet by name. For example, is Venli influenced by one of the Unmade? Are Thunderclasts associated with the Unmade? How about Gavilar's sphere? Is the "black piper" an Unmade as well? But as for right now, I think this is about all that we know about the specific Unmade. (Edited to add Sja-anat.) (Later edited to add general info.)
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  48. Locke lamora cause he's just too awesome...(The Gentlemen Bastard)
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  49. Ha. Well, by this point Hoid had been to the Well--getting there just before Vin--and had retrieved something from it. That should have been enough to get him to leave the planet entirely, but he got involved in events. (He tends to do that.) It's pie in the sky, but I would someday like to do parallel novel to the Mistborn series with Hoid in the background like they did in the second(?) back to the future move. I don't know that I'll ever be able to do it, but we shall see. I would answer this question there.
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