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  1. Night One: Choose Your Own Adventure Page 1: Hello, and welcome to your next adventure, Exisa! You are a noble in the fair city of Luthadel, trying to stop these heinous skaa from coming to infiltrate and murder you and your fellow nobles. You are gathered at a ball one evening when the subject comes up. What do you do? Choice 1: Start accusing people left and right of being skaa. You never know who’s the evil in your midst. Turn to page 3. Choice 2: Try to flirt with the lady on your right. Turn to page 22. Choice 3: Make note of the fact that you are listening, but stay quiet for now. You wouldn’t want to give the wrong impression or do anything rash. Turn to page 31. Choice 4: Declare yourself skaa and offer yourself up to be lynched. Turn to page 15. Page 31: It seems that that remark was the wrong choice. Someone turns to you and asks you to say something more useful. Choice 1: Tell them to mind their own business, as every proper nobleman should. Turn to page 5. Choice 2: Quietly say that you don’t really have any thoughts so you’re waiting to see what gets discussed. Turn to page 8. Choice 3: Look around nervously, then walk over to the madman in the corner saying something about Tekiel horsemen trampling Vinid banners and the fall of Erikell. Maybe they’ll think you’re mad, too, and leave you alone? Turn to page 21. Choice 4: Look around and point at someone, and say “Skaa!” in your loudest indoor voice. Turn to page 17. Page 8: More people turn to look at you. “And if everyone did that, no discussion would happen at all,” a particularly forbidding noble says, frowning. “Are you sure you’re not just a skaa trying to hide your opinions behind platitudes?” Choice 1: “I’m not a skaa!” you defend yourself. “In the name of the Lord Ruler, how could you ever think such a thing?” Turn to page 7. Choice 2: Curl up in a ball and hide. Turn to page 4. Choice 3: Gasp in shock at such a thought, clutch at your pearls, and faint in utter horror. Turn to page 12. Choice 4: “I’m just trying to help?” you say awkwardly. “I didn’t want us to go and do something rash like lynch someone, so I didn’t accuse anyone.” Turn to page 25. Page 25: Now the entire room is focused on you. “Like that’s going to get us anywhere," another noble says scornfully. “What do you say, everyone? I say Lord Exisa is skaa!” You have one more chance to save yourself. What do you do? Choice 1: Roar and attack back. Turn to page 2. Choice 2: hide behind the madman in the corner. “Please don’t kill me!” Turn to page 10. Choice 3: Give up and sit on the floor. “Fine. Kill me if you want.” Turn to page 13. Choice 4: Bolt away from everyone in terror. “Aaah!” Turn to page 79. Page 13: You sit on the floor, wondering what choices you have possibly made to lead to sitting on a marble floor, surrounded by accusing eyes, about to die. You close your eyes, and there’s a sickening crunch. Every noble hits or punches you at once, and you are beaten into a bloody pulp. Well done. Better luck next time! Turn back to page 1 and try again. Phattemer was a Noble Zinc Ferring and Metallurgist! Vote Count >Phattemer (10): Jondesu, Joe, Ecthelion, Elenion, Amanuensis, Arinian, Droughtbringer, Magestar, Phattemer, randuir >Elenion (1): Orlok >Magestar (1): Stick Night 1 has begun. You have 24 hours to send in actions and hope you don’t die. General Announcements: Something I forgot to include earlier - due to the way I count votes, you do not need to retract previous votes. I will count the last vote in red. If you are not planning to RP this game and would like to notify me, I would be happy to use your character in writeups. Corollary: If you would like to write your death writeup, anyone who wishes to is free to do so (as long as the GMs are notified ahead of time, otherwise we’ll just write one for you). Rules clarifications will not be posted in thread unless asked there, or if something is wrong or badly worded in the rules themselves.
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  2. First off, I realise that there is an existing Hemalurgy thread in the Mistborn section, but I wanted to discuss certain topics without needing to worry about spoilers. Additionally, I wanted the discussion to have a more theoretical direction, rather than a philosophical one. I have a few topics to cover, so they'll be broken up into different sections. ETHICS Hemalurgy is often considered an "evil" magic, and not without reason. So far, we have seen it as a very destructive force that not only kills innocents, but damages their very soul. However, we have had many interesting revelations since the original trilogy both in the books and through WoB. Many of these revelations paint a more... palatable picture of Hemalurgy. First and foremost, we have confirmation that Hemalurgy does not have to kill the person donating a spike. Relevant WoB: The reasons vary between WoB, but the meaning is clear: one does not have to die from getting spiked. It would still rip out a piece of your soul and change you as a person, but you do not have to die. Okay, so you don't have to die, but you're still losing a piece of your soul. That sounds like a big deal, right? Well, maybe not: So in the Before-Afterlife it certainly matters, but in the After-Afterlife? Not so much. That's a good thing, but it ultimately doesn't matter, because we have even better news! Soul wounds can be healed from: So not only is it confirmed you can heal back your soul, essentially creating a new patch of soul out of Investiture, it would also give you back the power you just had spiked away. Theoretically, you could be spiked multiple times for the same power. There's some implications that you wouldn't want to do this repeatedly, but the possibility is there. Alright, that's all well and good, but that only helps people who can heal back from a spiking. So that only means... everyone on Scadrial now. Those fancy medllions that the southerners have kindly introduced mean that everyone can heal back from being spiked by tapping an unkeyed goldmind. What's important to take away from this is that Hemalurgy may not be nearly as bad as we have been lead to believe. You don't have to die, you don't have to lose your power, you don't have to permanently damage your soul and it won't have scary, unknown implications for the After-Afterlife. I have no doubt that certain portions of society would be against it regardless of the science, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be used. MECHANICS In this section, I'm not going to be covering the topics of bind points or the uses of different metals as there's just not much to go on. Ultimately, I don't think the exact details are what's truly interesting about Hemalurgy anyway, but rather the interactions it has with the other magics on Scadrial. So, what do we know about Hemalurgy from the books? Well, you stab spikes into people and it gives them powers. So far as we know, each spike only steals one thing at a time, spiking an ability you already have makes you stronger and you can't have more than three spikes without opening yourself up to the influence of others: That's some pretty harsh restrictions. Suit appears to have his spikes piercing his heart, or at the very least they pierce his chest, and it was assumed that removing them would kill him. Pretty dangerous weakness to have these days, what with Coinshots and getting access to Duralumin medallions, or whatever other power boosting effects that may let people rip your spikes out. There's one person we know of who did fantastic things with Hemalurgy though, and seemed to have none of the associated weakness: the Lord Ruler. He was an impossibly powerful Mistborn, able to push on the metals inside Vin's stomach while she was burning them. Even Elend, with all his Lerasium granted strength, did not perform feats anywhere close to this. So, how did the Lord Ruler achieve this? The obvious answer is that he also ate Lerasium. WoB says that's not the case though: So how did the Lord Ruler become so powerful? According to WoB, it was Hemalurgy: So the Lord Ruler needed all three systems, but Hemalurgy was the most dramatic. Other than his incredible Allomatic strength, I cannot think of anything else he did that was not explained by compounding or God metals. There's a problem with this, though. So far as we know, the Lord Ruler only had two Hemalurgical spikes located in his upper arms, which doubled as his Atium Metlaminds. Even if these had granted Allomancy, they could not explain the entirety of his awesome power: The fact that he had no other spikes was actually a plot point. Remember that Marsh also thought that the Lord Ruler had been spiked like an Inquisitor, and his plan to kill him was based around this: So how can someone use all three systems of magic to benefit from Hemalurgy but not be full of spikes? Well, I think I have the answer, theorized from a few WoB and based around burning spikes with Allomancy: So we have some discrepancies between these WoB. In one, it says you would splice the sDNA together. In another, it says it won't graft the stolen soul on, but it would have some interesting effects. Finally, in one it says it won't have any effect when you burn it unless it also came from you. I believe these seemingly contradicting elements can finally be reconciled after learning about Identity in BoM, while also explaining why the Lord Ruler was so powerful. If you've read some of my other posts, you can probably already see where this is going. My proposition is simple: similar to Identity and Metalminds, the results of burning a Hemalurgical spike are dependent on whether or not you have Identity access to it. If you share an Identity with the Investiture in the spike, or possibly if the spike was donated from an individual who had no Identity at the time, then a process similar to compounding occurs. As the Investiture is drawn from Preservation and filtered through the metal, the Hemalurgical Investiture alters the shape that the magic takes, thereby spicing the sDNA in the spike and the sDNA of the Allomancer together. For a full explanation on my theory for the mechanics of Allomancy and compounding, see my huge ranty post. So, what effect would this have? Well, I believe we saw the results of this in the Lord Ruler. In the case of spikes which grant Metalborn abilities, splicing the sDNA results in granting, or increasing, the abilities of a Metalborn. It does not "graft" or "tack on" a piece of sDNA as has been described of spikes, but rather a full merger or "splicing" between the sDNA, impossible to separate afterwards. If this were the case, it would explain how the Lord Ruler managed to achieve his "dramatic effects" with basically no spikes, and would indeed require all three systems of metal magic. He needed an understanding of Hemalurgy to spike his own powers out (probably controlled a Kandra or Inquisitor for this), Feruchemy to survive said spiking and heal back his ability, and Allomancy to burn the spike and add it back onto his sDNA, thereby increasing his Allomatic strength without being a "common Inquisitor" with "endowed fabrications." He could then repeat this process until he reached some unknown theoretical limit. Keep in mind, the Lord Ruler was the most knowledgeable user of the metalic arts to have ever existed (so far), so if anyone could figure this out, it would be him. Okay, so maybe this is possible and he figured it out. Why did he use spikes for his Inquisitors then? Control, obviously. He brutally controlled the use and knowledge of Feruchemy just to prevent compounding, and this is easily more powerful. He designed all of his Hemalurgical constructs with both clear weaknesses and methods of control, and anyone granted power through this method would have neither. This is the extent of my evidence on the subject, so it is by no means proven, but I think there's a possibility for it to be true. I didn't find anything directly contradicting it, but Brandon has been getting pretty tight lipped about this sort of thing as time goes on. If you have anything on the subject, I'd be interested in seeing it. HEMALURGY USE GOING FORWARD Theoretically, this could be absurdly powerful going forward. If all that is required is an unkeyed spike, rather than a spike you share an Identity with, then you could potentially turn anyone into a Mistborn via the use of medallions. Give a Metalborn a Feruchemical Gold/ Feruchemical Aluminum medallion, dump their Identity while you spike out their power and have them heal it back with the goldmind. Give the recipient an Allomancy medallion corresponding with the metal of the spike, have them burn the spike and then boom, you've got a brand new Metalborn. Rinse and repeat. As I mentioned before, there's anecdotes that you may not want to do this repeatedly, as Soul injuries apparently scar even when healed and who knows what that does, but the ability is strong enough even without spiking people multiple times. That being said, I don't think Hemalurgy would gain wide spread use even if this were possible, simply because it's too damnation powerful. Imagine a world of Lord Rulers. Wax gave up the Bands of Mourning because the power was too great for mortals, and this is potentially even more powerful than that. I can easily see governments suppressing and regulating the use of Hemalurgy for the same reason they regulate guns. Or, perhaps more appropriately, for the same reasons as nukes. Still, the potential is there for this to be even more disruptive than medallions. FINAL THOUGHTS I consider this to be very theoretical and am by no means claiming to be convinced of its veracity. I'd love to hear what others have to say on the subject, and what they think of my interpretation.
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  3. Purim costume is almost ready to go! Assuming I can get good pictures, if I know you, you can PM me for pics. Aint gonna post my face publicly. Imma be Hamilton. So excited.
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  4. (a little premise, as a not native English, my post could be read as rude, but I has not the skills to efficiently bend the words to accomodate a specific tone in the discussion) Ok I am a bit late to the party (really tiresome days for me) anyway I don't buy this model yet. The premise "Powers !=Investiture" is pure speculation (more than that because there are references to explicity problems with it) and you need a tons of exception only to make it slightly work and a couple of them are really heavy exceptions. I would start to some random counter examples that comes to my mind while reading the first post: - Mists are "in-book" and by Brandon called both Investiture and Power of Creation....This alone destroyes the separation between the two concepts. - The Perpendicularities are defined both "Investiture" and "power of creation" too. - Feruchemy is defined by Brandon as a Magic System and allows the user to manipulate the Power of Creation. (assuming we didn't found an explicit mention to Investiture=power) - We know a Splinter made by Investiture, while for your own model the Splinters has to be made of Power. Of course I am talking of Nightblood. We have also a WoB with the possibility to turn Stormlight into a Spren. - If the Power is alone in the Spiritual Realm, it have to collapse into Investiture when you push it in the others Realms. It has to turn from "Creative potential" into "Creation" (matter/energy/Investiture) in your model. (1) So the Dor can't be an exception, once in the Cognitive it is not more Power but instead Investiture (this extends itself to Honor's power and Ambition's one) (2) A Shard will run out of Power, Preservation's Power will eventually diminish from Allomancy usage...While we know the Power used will return eventually to the Shards. (3) With your model Ruin has not use for the Atium. He can't make it again Power so in the great scheme of thing he could not use it to overpower Preservation. So the whole Atium's hunt is meaningless. [The next is a fresh one born while I was writing the (3)] Your model is aganist the whole post ascension Sazed's point in HoA's ephitaps "For a god, his body and his power are the same". Translating with our own terms "For a god, his Investiture and his Power are the same". A last note that it's not stricly related to the content but to the form, I suggest you to change your terms (as I suggested too while the Theory was private) because like @Djarskublar said you confuse (pun intended) the reader and the theory becomes harder to follow. You changed the semantics of canon term and made new words to call something it had already a name....It's a mess to follow in this way, much more if the reader has not the flexibility to understand the different contexts of "your theory" and the "canon knowledge" Now not related to the theory: Actually the Returned as Cognitive Shadows will simply be unable to remain in the Physical, but they could remain almost whatever they want in the Realms (struck in the Cognitive), sure they could simply choose to reach the Beyond (I asked this to Brandon regard the whole "Cognitive Shadows" not Returned in specific) but they are not pulled by it. EDIT: Fixed some words
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  5. Dalinar's wife was actually named shhshhssshh Flangria is people! Adolin does not become an Edgedancer or a Dustbringer. Instead he becomes an ardent and retires to a life of quiet contemplation Vasher really came to Roshar to hide from Vivenna, who threatened to take Nightblood to his stupid perma-scruff. He's waiting until she cools down before trying to go home. Roshar used to be known as Kobol
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  6. PUBLIC ALERT: Honking at a girl walking her dog is Not Funny. You will scare the dog and leave the girl rattled and angry. This is not flirting. This is not cute. This is just being a cremhole.
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  7. I have been a fan for almost 2 years now, and I am finally making a profile on here, hopefully keeping it recent. I am very interested in the mistborn magic system, and all the other magic systems for that reason. I am slowly uncovering small things that might have been overlooked in the books, but ill have to see if anyone else picked up on them yet.
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  8. Go to the US Department of Education, find the office that was financing my loan at its ridiculous rates, and moon them.
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  9. Rodel here. This is a short story that features Hoid. It takes place after Warbreaker. Feel free to comment. The Man with Bacon Kasta cried. Her mother had sent her out of the house, furious, because she was visiting a boy her mother had deemed, “not worthy”. But to Kasta, he was worthy. He was everything. Quenn was the most handsomest boy ever. Despondent, Kasta ran down an alley, intending to sob in a street corner until she felt comfortable enough to go home. She slumped down on a wall and sniffed. “Need some food?” The voice had come out of nowhere. Kasta looked up to see the strangest man she had ever seen. He had no shirt on, and one leg of his trousers was torn away at the thigh. He was quite well muscled, which made Kasta blush slightly. The man also had stark white hair, even though he looked as though he couldn’t be older than thirty. “Wh-what?” she stammered. The man snapped his fingers impatiently. “I’m offering you food,” he said. “You know, the stuff you gnaw on until it enters your bowels? Are you going to accept my generous offer or am I just going to have to throw it on the ground and piss on it?” His sudden crude remark made Kasta stifle a laugh. “Yes,” she replied, with more confidence now. “I would like some food.” The man grinned widely. “Good!” With that, he plopped down next to her and brought out a piece of meat with a flourish. “Presenting the best food in the cosmere….bacon!” he exclaimed joyously. Kasta giggled, accepting the meat. The man was undoubtedly odd, but he made her forget her problems. “What happened to you?” she asked, gesturing at his three-fourths of a pair of trousers. The man chuckled. “Well, you see,” he explained. “A very old friend of mine is looking for me, and he actually hired some poor fools to procure me. Luckily, I gave them the slip somewhere in Teod.” “Where’s that?” Kasta wondered. The man dismissed her question with a wave of his hand. “Never mind that now,” he scoffed. “Back to my intriguing story, I arrived here a week ago, and visited Hallandren. Now I’m up here.” He paused. “Does that explain it?” Kasta shook her head. “No,” she said. “What happened to your clothes?” “That’s also an intriguing story,” the man replied, blue eyes twinkling. “When I was in Hallandren, I impersonated a storyteller. Told a nice story to the Vessel and one of the Returned.” “Colors!” Kasta exclaimed, eyes wide with excitement. “You’ve seen Princess Siri?” The man rolled his eyes, exasperation obvious. “Yes, yes, I have, she’s doing fine,” he said, annoyed. “May I continue?” Kasta nodded, and he did. “Just yesterday I decided to go, but somebody saw me pull off my beard. Caused quite the ruckus.” Kasta looked at him intently. “How did you get here in one day?” she questioned. The man held up a finger, cutting her off as he chewed his bacon. Then he swallowed. “Pewter.” he answered cheerily. Kasta’s eyebrows furrowed, confused. “Pewter?” The man nodded vigorously. “It works miracles,” he said. “But it has some effects. Which is why I needed bacon.” He went back to his bacon, jaw lethargically moving up and down. Kasta looked down at the ground. It was nice to have someone to talk to. She ate some bacon, then turned to the man again. “What’s your name?” The man’s face contorted, as if she had asked a difficult question. “Now that’s difficult,” he declared. “I’ve been called many things. Gheas. Idiot. Person with the Sharp Nose. Lunu’anaki.” He paused, thoughts deep in the past. “For now, you can call me Hoid.” Kasta smiled and stood up. She curtseyed. “It’s nice to meet you, Hoid.” she said. Hoid nodded distractedly. “It’s nice to meet you too, whatever your name is,” he returned. “Forgive me if I don’t bow. I’m terribly informal.” Kasta smiled and exited the alley. She felt good enough to face her mother now. As she made her way down the streets of Bevalis, a large man stepped in front of her. Startled, she stepped back. The man grinned evilly. “Step down this alley, pretty girl.” Kasta shook her head, trembling. “I will do no such thing.” The man’s face darkened. He pulled out a knife, blade glinting the in the afternoon sun. “Do it now, or I’ll gut you.” he snarled. Kasta shrieked in fear, then tried to run, but the man caught her by the arm. He threw her roughly into the alleyway, ripping the left sleeve and shoulder of her dress. He pinned her arms down with his knees. “Stop squirming, or I’ll kill you,” he yelled. He leaned in closer, whispering in her ear. “We’re gonna play a game. I’ll be the God King. You be the Vessel.” Before, he could go on, a voice cut in. “You would be executed for blasphemy in a heartbeat down in Hallandren, dear fellow,” said Hoid. “I’m not one who would want to get rid of blasphemy, of course, but all the same.” The man gaped at Hoid, who winked slyly. The man growled angrily, pointing the knife at him, in the process letting one of Kasta’s arms go. In a flash, Kasta lifted her leg and struck her assailant in the face. The man crumpled. Hoid clapped enthusiastically. “Oh, bravo,” he said with approval. “You would give the Ascendant Warrior a run for her boxings.” He helped Kasta up. “Let’s get you home.” said Hoid. ***** When Kasta’s mother saw her daughter enter the house with a shirtless man, her face went as white as the Royal Locks. But, as they explained, she calmed down enough to stop gasping. “I owe you my thanks,” she told Hoid. “What can I do for you?” Hoid shrugged, adopting an innocent look. “A shirt, a new pair of trousers, and some bacon,” he said. “Then I will depart.” Some minutes later, Hoid had been given the items he requested. As he exited the house, Kasta stopped him and caught him in an embrace. When she finally detached, Hoid looked astonished, grin now more of a grimace. “Um, ah, I must be going,” he stuttered. “I shouldn’t stay long in this part of the Realm. Edgli gets touchy.” He turned and began to saunter his way down the path. “Good-bye!” Kasta cried. Without looking back, Hoid waved farewell. ***** Some years later, before her children went to bed, Kasta would tell them of an eccentric man who talked of gods and royalty as if they were little infants. An enigma….who adored bacon.
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  10. I've been talking (mostly monologue-ing, to be honest) about the nature of Surgebinding with some guys on the /r/Cosmere Discord, and some things about spren, Listeners, humans, bonds, and Surgebinding all clicked into a theory - or an understanding, really - pretty nicely. So I wanted to share that with you. The important points are bolded because I don't have enough time to format this more prettily at work. We start off by establishing a foundation we can all (hopefully) agree on: Surgebinding is a magic system (what Khriss calls "a manifestation of investiture") on Roshar This means it's a result - intentional or not - of Shardic influence on Roshar. For now I am not interested in whether it is a result of Honor's influence, or Honor's and Cultivation's. Surgebinding manifests as control over the Surges - the fundamental laws of nature as interpreted by the Rosharans - the same way Allomancy manifests as a set of very specific effects. I believe Surgebinding is a lot more variable in the level of control it allows for, but that's not important right now. Okay. Foundation laid. Now, a postulation: I say that control over the Surges is not exclusive to Surgebinders, Radiants, and Heralds. I say that every symbiotic relationship between (one or more) spren and a living thing in Roshar's Physical Realm results in some form of Surgebinding. A lot of those forms are somewhat limited and low key (e.g. the greatshells' ability to grow far bigger than they should be able to do - the greatshells are not Surgebinding to the level Kaladin is, but I do believe their relationship with the spren allows them to use the Surges (a little) and help themselves overcome the square cube law), but I argue that they are still Surgebinding. Alright. This is going to be important in a moment. So these less... spectacular manifestations of Surgebinding, they could've easily been present on Roshar prior to the arrival of the humans. They - the manifestations - may or may have required Honor's and Cultivation's presence either - I will acknowledge (but not really address) that it's possible all this comes from Adonalsium, and so Surgebinding is really just about what the humans can do, and the other, more primitive control over the Surges, a... proto-Surgebinding, if you will, could've come from Adonalsium. It's a possibility, but not one I am interested in. What I am interested in is that there is a very good chance that the Listeners had been making use of this Surge control for some time before the humans showed up. But then the humans did show up and something made the spren who had previously been fraternizing with the Listeners abandon them and begin bonding with humans. This is the first part of my theory (if you could call it that): the Nahel bond is exactly the same bond spren already form with a lot of other creatures on Roshar. The only special thing about the Nahel bond in the context of the Knights Radiant is that it's a bond between humans and spren, not other native species and spren; in other words, the secret ingredient are the humans, not the bond. So humans show up, maybe some time passes, and then something prompts the spren to start bonding with them. I think we can all agree that this "something" was either Honor's act of granting control over the Surges to his Heralds (by giving them the Honorblades), or another event that happened at just about the same time. Either way, the spren decide to abandon their previous best source of whatever it is that spren get out of the whole bonding business, the Listeners, and go bond with humans. This has an interesting implication - that the spren we identify as Radiant spren (honorspren, cultivationspren, inkspren, cryptics, highspren, etc.) may have been Listener spren in the past, with their own forms (Honorform, anyone?) - otherwise why would the Listener Song of Spren speak of betrayal? But why would "the smartest spren" (as the song calls them) choose to mimic what Honor had done with his Heralds and, as a result, abandon their previous hosts? I believe it is because there is a direct relationship between the level of Surge control a spren can grant to its physical bond-partner and how much the spren benefits out of the bond - the greater the access to Surgebinding, the happier the spren is; which is why you don't see honorspren bond with chasmfiends. So what I think happened was that the more powerful spren, what would soon become the Radiant spren, saw how much control Honor gave his Heralds and (correctly) deduced that if they bonded with humans, they would get a lot more out of the bond that the Listeners could ever provide. It's possible that this is all about the strength of the bond (so humans can, inherently, form stronger bonds than Listeners), but I think the end result is the same - spren figured out that humans are a good source of... whatever. What do spren get out of the bond anyway? Creatures native to Roshar's Physical Realm get control over the Surges, but what do spren get? We've seen several effects (stronger mind, personality, memories, control over small physical objects), but I think we can, for the purposes of this theory, say that the spren get pulled closer to the Physical Realm. I use this phrase specifically because the Song of Spren says that the Listeners are "too close to [the spren's] realm". So, thinking a little less abstractly, I think the reason humans are more desirable targets for bonding is simply because they can pull their spren further into the Physical Realm. Listeners are closer to Shadesmar, so there's only so much physicality they can provide; humans, being further away from Shadesmar, can simply provide more. --- --- --- This is, I think, all I got. Just a series of realizations I had, reinforced by a little bit of (educated) guesswork, that all seem to fit pretty well together. Rosharan life naturally making use of the stupidly high levels of free investiture, Listeners being best buddies with the spren, and the spren (after observing the Heralds) figuring that there was a new cool kid on the block and giving rise to the Surgebinders we know. What do you think?
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  11. So my italian teacher said that we needed a name for this project we're doing... And I said 'Bob' in a dead-pan voice... And she actually considered it for a few seconds...
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  12. @Yata will correct me if I'm wrong but yeah a sliver is someone who has held the power of a shard and released it (TLR, Kelsier etc) but a sliver is (or can be) still alive (Brandon describes it as like a skin filled and stretched from being filled, with the stuff inside then released). A Cognitive Shadow is by definition the shadow of someone no longer alive but who held such a high level of investiture while they were alive that their soul was permeated by investiture and kind of copied, like a petrified tree where the wood is replaced with stone.
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  13. So for tomorrow, we have M. Puddles, Ernei, rdpulfer, Mandamon, and um, whoever wins what I assume is the imminent fisticuffs match between kaisa and Robinski. ("No, I must insist! After YOU! *whack*")
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  14. As far as i understand the Bondsmiths are kind of the leaders of the Knight Radiant as a whole, but beside that are just another order of Knight Radiants and don´t have any influence on the formation (or at all) on the Nahelbond of others. They can use the Surges of Adhesion and Tension so that are their powers. Dalinar realazies he needs to lead the KR and he can´t do that if he isn´t one of them (mostly because you can´t lead someone if they have more authority than you do, nothing magical here). I gues the name Bondsmith is just an indication that they are the leaders and form alliances under the banner of the KR to fight the Desolations and isn´t meant to be taken literally (I mean Windrunner also don´t literally run on wind, but Weirdfaller doesn´t really sound good^^)
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  15. Following are my thoughts on this matter: (started form Argent's post about Spren History.) I realize little of this might not be new for some of you, I am sorry if nothing here is novel for the group. A quick search for Nahel brings up the Arabic name which loosely translates as "[One/He/She] who quenches its thirst". As the spelling is exactly the same I am inclined to believe this is a clue as to why the bonds are formed. ALL spren thirst for physical experience. It was discovered that by connecting themselves with physical beings they are able to get those experiences. I disagree with the common thought that the bond brings them closer to the physical realm. I believe that spren can jump into the physical as wind spren don't seem to have a bond but they are in the the physical realm to some extent and able to minimally interact with physical things. The bond allows them to experience it in a very different way then just observing and minimal interactions. BTW I am on board with Argent's postulate that ALL bonds grant surgebinding especially in context that a Selish person with a bonded Aon (that was able make the jump to Roshar) would have access to some form of Surges. The higher spen is the higher a creature needs to be to fill this need. The Radiant Spren NEED more then a skyeel, cremling, or greatshell to quench their thirst. They need something intelligent and self aware. I suspect they couldn't bond with the listeners until the Shards came and the ambient magic system (think of the birds on First of the Sun) moved into a actively wielded magic system. Then the Radiant Spren started bonding with the native race, but then moved on to humans when they were shown they could get better experiences from more physical beings possibly from seeing how much more powerful the Heralds were. They may have surmised that Humans could wield the surges more powerfully and deduced that meant they would get better/stronger experiences. Following this I believe that a human will always outstrip a Listener in power because as the Spren gets more it can give more. The only reason Void spren are not bonding forcibly with Humans to get the better/stronger experiences is the fact that the further from the cognitive realm a being is the more free it will be to reject the bond. but this gets off topic slightly. TLDR: Spren thirst for physical experience, they can get minimal experience just by interacting with the world, but get more by bonding with a physical being. The word Nahel is used to hint at this relationship as the bonds quenches this thirst. It is easier to bond with unintelligent / unaware creatures, but less is gained for the spren and less is granted in return.
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  16. I always took this to be someone being bled by the diagriamists, and remaining coherent enough despite their vision to both understand the purpose of their death, and spiteful enough to outright deny them the payoff of his/her glimpse into the future. I'd hate them for killing me too.
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  17. How about we all just agree to not go inactive, or at the very least, warn the thread with a message like "If I don't appear online by [insert time here], kill me, preferably with a night kill as to not waste the village's time." This would solve the problem of lynching inactives fairly easily. Fair enough. I will note your stance on phatt as neutral with a potential for defense, with a subnote that this is Day 1 and you have a tendency with being reluctant to lynch people this early, with an postnote that I might be remembering wrong and that I need to revisit previous games to confirm. I myself have made role advice from both sides. For a time, it was something I did at the beginning of every game, most notably LG24, in which I was evil and gained the trust of a majority of the village and took out nearly all of their protective roles in a single night by having them target me. So yeah, I would say we should not view that advice as something indicative of alignment. It's better to focus on things like player's opinions of each others, their attempts to kill and save them, as well as role claims and how they fit into the greater picture of the game. So, with that in mind. Ten hours has passed since I placed my vote on and so far only Jondesu has responded to the fallacies I have pointed at regarding Phatt (never mind, just got a notification from Joe, let me go read that.) Okay, now that makes Phatt in the lead with three votes, and so far only four players have commented on it. @phattemer, I know there's not much of a defense you can really muster this early, but do you have any thoughts you can contribute? In particular I would like to see your thoughts on other players. @Elenion, @Silverblade5, @Arinian, @Straw, @Hemalurgic_Headshot, @Bartimaeus, @Magestar, @DroughtBringer, @randuir, @_Stick_, @Szeth Son-Son Mallano, @OrlokTsubodai: what are your thoughts on Phatt, the players voting on him, and each other? @Ecthelion III, do you still want to keep your vote on phatt now that two other players have voted for him as well? Also, since this was something that caught my attention as soon as the sign ups were posted, do we want to test out what happens if we have a tie vote? The rules state the results are "blah blah blah" which is not very informative. Do we think that information is worth obtaining earlier rather than later? If so, how would you all like to go about arranging a tie? I would end this post with me publicly declaring my read on Joe like I did with Jon, but I'm going to keep that in my pocket for now, since there's a bit more to process, and I want to see more players react to the lynch on Phatt, first. Vote Tally (0) Silverblade5: Elenion, (0) Magestar: Silverblade5, (0) Droughtbringer: Jondesu, (3) phattemer: Elenion, Ecthelion III, Amanuensis, A Joe in a Bush, (1) Elenion: OrlokTsubodai,
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  18. I've had a bit more search on this and found a couple of WoBs that may be relevant. Bold for my emphasis. I feel from those that the Evil is the result of the death of Ambition, the release of investiture into the system and that investiture developing a form of Cognitive Shadow-style semi-sentience, but a corrupted version. Now Fain life may be the result of a similar thing since it talks about two gods dying and corruption coming out of them. This could be a similar example of corrupted investiture from a dead Shard. I feel they're described somewhat differently and I don't understand really since Fain was pre-Shattering, while I feel the Evil is a direct result of ambition's death. But they could definitely be related. I too am concerned with the timeline. But maybe it took many thousands of years for the corrupted investiture to gain enough sentience, or spread through the system, or something else intervened more recently to change it.
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  19. I'm late to this party, but I'm with 8bit here. I would like to add one WoB I obtained a few weeks ago, though it is lateish and I'm feeling ill, so I'll just summarize rather than dig it up. Me: Could you withdraw Breaths from an awakened object if the person who Awakened it had a blank Identity at the time he Awakened the thing. Brandon: (hems and haws) Me: What about both of them being blank? Brandon: (still pretty reluctant about answering something about Identity in an open Q&A) Yeah, that should work. (goes into a fairly long discussion that boils down to many powers would be accessible if one party is Identity blanked, and almost all can be used if both parties are blank. I assume that the exception would be Surgebinding because of bonds making things difficult) I think of Identity as a literal key. If power matches your Identity, it goes through the locks on your soul and the power reaches you. If the power is keyed to someone else, the power just runs up against a different lock and can't enter you, but you can still feel the power pushing up against you, like Vin does when she burns the metalmind. If you have no Identity on the power, it is like the power is a key with no teeth, a bare tiny cylinder of metal that will slot into most any lock. If you have no Identity, it is like your lock is just a massive circle, able to accept almost any shape with room to spare. There would only be a few keys or locks that would require both cases to be true, but they are possible. Also, sometimes spren just block the key anyway. So for this specific example, when you burn the unkeyed metalmind, you get a flow of power (that is compounded because the Allomancy is powering it, rather than just returning 1:1). This flow of power can enter you since the power has had the teeth of its key stripped off. I'm not 100% sure how to reconcile getting normal allomantic power from burning a metalmind that is keyed to someone else, but I would just guess that the power wants to enter you properly, so it bucks off the feruchemical filtering and gives you allomantic power. That is definitely something I would like to clarify with Brandon, since it looks like that part of the relevant WoB may have just been something added to an afterthought that isn't actually accurate. He has certainly misspoken in the past.
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  20. Apology up front, but I've spent too long without venting a set of questions on here, so there are quite a few this time around. AonDor Questions: Does drawing an Aon larger make the effect larger and/or more powerful? Are any currently known Aons an exception to this? Can Aon effects be stacked? ie: would overlaying 4x Aon Ashe mean 4x brightness? Do the modifier lines have to be drawn on the same scale as the base Aon? Clarification: Draw a 1ft by 1ft Aon Daa with modifiers, if I make the base Aon 2ft by 2ft, do I also have to double the size of the modifiers? If so, what effect would keeping them the same size have on the Aon when I use it? Can you build an On/Off switch into the modifiers of an Aon? ex: A flashlight using Aon Ashe for light Ancient Elantrians used Aon Ehe to make lanterns that never went out. Given how newly drawn Aons are weaker away from Elantris, would these lanterns(that are already activated) start to dim as they got further from the city of Elantris? If not a RAFO, would this hold true for all Aons that are already activated? Does Aon Aha ["Breath, Air" per Ars Arcanum] produce air in AonDor? I got an Elantrian Scuba Diver image in my head this one time... If so, could it be used to have a never emptying oxygen tank or would it continue filling/raising pressure to the point that the tank bursts? If he somehow doesn't RAFO this, can you prevent pressure bursting with the right modifiers? Allomancy Questions: The point where someone has enough power that they start leaking mist has been given the fan-name of "Mistpoint." Do you have an actual term for this or can we use this term as actual Canon? We've speculated that Mistpoint marks the strongest point that an Allomancer can be(barring Ascension). Are we correct in this assumption? Would Mist-fueled entities [ie: Elend and Marsh during the final battle] be considered as at Mistpoint? How close would the Lord Ruler get to Mistpoint by Duralumin burning his Allomantic Metals? You've said that Elend could only match TLR soothing by using Duralumin. For reference, was the Lord Ruler only burning or was he flaring brass during his intense soothing scenes? Suppose you could reliably steal 80% Allomantic Strength with a Spike. That 80% would differ slightly from person to person correct? Pretty sure we know this already, but just in case. In another WoB, you have said that burning Pewter gives 2x strength and flaring gives 3x. Mathematically, that means flaring gives you double what burning gives. Does this hold true for all metals? Clarification: In essence, Burn = Strength+1, Flare = Strength+2. Thus Flare is 2x the effect of Burn. If no, which metals does this math work with? / Which metals does this math not work with? Gen. Purpose Roshar Questions: Is Thaylenah a mercantile culture? Captain Tozbek runs a shipping business, Rysn and Vstim trade all over Roshar, Tvlakv is a slave trader, Barmest sells books in Kharbranth, Vstim is legally Rysn's father until he considers her ready to be a merchant on her own, several people of several cultures speak Thaylen well, etc.. Rysn and Vstim traded in both Shinovar and the Reshi Isles. Thaylen, Reshi, Aimian and Shin are all in different language families, yet Axies the Collector(Aimian) spoke Thaylen well, the Shin they traded with(Thresh) and the Purelaker guide(Gu) spoke it very well, and the Reshi trader(Talik) spoke Thaylen well enough for Rysn to question his country of origin. Taravangian knows a Shin proverb in its native tongue. Is the language barrier thinner than we would expect it to be? Can you compare the level of difference between some languages with an Earth equivalent? ie: Going from Alethi to Horneater is like English to Russian, or something like that to give us a idea of how different these languages really are Does Azir have a standing army, and would their "by the book"/paperwork oriented lifestyle translate into a well regimented force and chain-of-command? (assuming they filled out the necessary forms to go to war) When Iri and Rira split, was it a peaceful split or was there a civil war of sorts? Additionally, how long ago did this split happen? What do the Reshi actually do to interpret the Tai-Na on whether they should go to war with a nearby island? Cosmere Questions: Would a Shardblade kill the limb of a Kandra, or do they have some form of resistance/immunity to this? If they have a resistance, why/how does it resist a Shardblade cut? Would a Shardblade physically cut the "bones" of a Kandra with a true body made of stone/metal or would the limb still have to be killed first? We seem to be fixated with FTL and space travel, but are there any worlds that would be more interested in exploring the deep seas of their world? If so, have we seen this world? and/or Do we know enough about the culture/magic system to figure out how they would explore the deep seas?
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  21. At the end of Oathbringer a new red star shows up. They decide to call it Calamity.
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  22. So, I have a really good joke, but I've already used it on this site a few times. If you've already seen it, feel free to ignore it and not upvote it (not that I'd mind of course). Here's the joke: "Hey, have you seen Vasher?" "Who Zahel are you talking about?"
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  23. You just can't handle how awesome she is.
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  24. Hello, this is my first theory, so try not to tear it apart too fast . I've looked around and am fairly certain there's not a topic on this, although if there is, kindly point me to it. I do not have a ton of evidence for it, but essentially, I believe that the Evil from Threnody is really just fainlife and I'll explain why. (By the way, there are a few AU spoilers ahead, specifically for the Threnody essay, so beware) I first made the connection when I noticed they were both described as creeping. From LoP: And from the Threnodite System essay in AU: The descriptions here are pretty similar in both wording and feel. They are both portrayed as catastrophic, death-bringing forces laying waste to entire continets. For those who haven't read the Liar of Partinel, as far as I understand, fainlife came as a result of the death of Yolen's gods. It says that the fainlife came from the gods' corpse, implying that it came directly from them, and not that the gods were simply holding it back and when they died, it was left to ravage the land. We know Ambition, a shard, which can be considered a god, died in the Threnodite system. So, assuming LoP is mostly still canon, I think that the Evil is fainlife born from the death of Ambition. Now I know Ambition didn't actually die in the Threnodite System, but was only mortally wounded. However, Khriss says that So it seems fair to say at least a part of Ambition died there and that it definitely had some harmful consequences for Threnody. I know thats not a perfect argument, but it makes sense to me that fainlife could be something that causes the inhabitants of the Fallen World to flee. The fainlife we see in LoP drove the people to the brink of extinction. It pushed mankind into very small pockets of civilization where space was extremely limited and growing food was difficult. And I mean, consuming continents, feasting on the souls of men, that seems pretty reminiscent of fain. I can see how the destructive power of fainlife could cause a contintent wide evacuation in Threnody considering what we've seen of it in LoP. It just seems to fit. There are also a couple holes I'd like to address. First of all the biggest issue I see is of the timing of it. The battle between Ambition and Odium occurred relatively soon after the Shattering, however the arrival of The Evil appears to be much more recent, like within a 100 years of Shadows for Silence, which occurs later in the sequence of cosmere books. The only explanation I can think of is that the effect on Threnody of the battle was somehow delayed. Maybe it took time for the pieces of Ambition to reach the planet, or they somehow lay dormant for a long time, I don't know, I'm just speculating on this part. If anyone does know anything about that, please share. The second thing is why Nazh, being from Threnody, did not explain the Evil to Khriss. The most likely explanation is that Nazh was born long before the Evil started wrecking havoc on the Fallen World. This seems to make sense due to his worldhopping history. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Shadows for Silence takes place after Era 1 of Mistborn. And since we see him in SH, its likely he was around before the events of SfS and the Evil. He also talks about the rituals of becoming a shade, which do not line up at all with what we see of shades in SfS. They seem much more dangerous than the way he describes them, suggesting he comes from a different time period when the shades were not quite so evil. Khriss says he could only talk about the Evil vaguely, and I think thats because he didn't actually know what it was since he was not on Threnody at the time. Anyway, there's my theory, I hoped you liked it. Remember, all of this could be completely invalid if in the canon, fainlife is not the same. Feel free to share your thoughts, comments, ideas, criticisms, and any relevant WoBs. Have fun speculating!
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  25. Hi guys, after reading Words of Radiance and learning more about Shadesmar, I've got a cool theory (hopefully) on the potential of Shadesmar in Roshar and what we could see in the future books of The Stormlight Archive. In the prologue, Jasnah enters Shadesmar and realizes that each bead represents an object (a statue, a cup, etc.) and then she discovers an ancient bead representing the entire palace itself and uses that bead to formulate the palace hallway (the book mentions she was "not strong enough" to re-create the entire palace), she also used the statue bead to recreate and move the Talenel statue's sword when confronting Ivory. This kinda feels like a glimpse of what cognitive realm battles in the future could be like. Moreover, if there could be an ancient bead representing the palace, what about a bead representing the entire Roshar super-continent or even the Roshar planet or the entire Rosharan System or the Cosmere itself? I know it may be a bit of a stretch but we have WoB on how Roshar is unique/special and a key on Shadesmar, which adds to my theory. If someone has enough power/Investiture and could use that Roshar bead to manipulate things, the potential is enormous and epic. Do let me know your views, this is only my 2nd theory here and I am open to any opinions, thanks!!
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  26. Oh my gosh. I just found an bunch of art of gryphons created from unusual cat/bird combos and it's awesome! You can see the whole collection here, but here are some of my favorites: Cheetah/Peregrine Falcon: Hummingbird/Ocelot: Potoo/Pallas Cat: I seriously cannot stop laughing at the Pallas-Potoo.
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  27. A brave larkin, spiked with brass allomancy and wielding Nightblood, saves Roshar from Szeth wielding every Honorblade.
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  28. Great, now I have ShardAcupunctureNeedles stuck in my head (no pun intended).
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  29. To use your own analogy, the identity is the key. The Metalminds have two doorways, an Allomanctic one and a Feruchemical one. Compounding opens both doors, but when the Metalmind isn't yours and the metal is viable: it only opens one door because the locks aren't the same. That path is the Allomantic one, so you get that power, separate from the Feruchemy, but you can still feel it pressing against the door. Does that make sense or have I misinterpreted in some way?
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  30. "Can you make kisses shiny?" Jackpot! “Trust me, there is nothing more shiny than a passionate kiss, just let me handle it.” The next moment they were up in the sky. There was a short moment of weightlessness before gravity started to pull on them. Then Shiny went in for the big kiss. It was the most joyous experience she could think of. The pure delight send her sparkles into overdrive. The light enveloping was like a second sun in the sky, just more colorful and shiny. Sadly they were eventually going to hit the ground and even if it was ‘till death do you part, there was no reason to let their love story end with an early climax. Only one thing could act as a cushion for a fall from blissful paradise, so Shiny teleported them on top of her bed. Lovingly, she cuddled herself against Funtimes. “So, was that shiny enough for you?”
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  31. That is flirting in the way kicking sand in a girl's face on the playground is puppy love.
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  32. You get a huge argument about which of the goddesses is the prettiest (except they're all Bavadin, so the answer should be obvious)! *inserts custard cream*
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  33. Join, please! Twitch.tv/basstrace Josh, little wilson, and I are playing jack box games. We've called it for tonight, but hopefully can do it another time.
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  34. "Alrin. My name is Alrin. But you will hear nothing more from me until I will know your name." Juan smiled. "Ah, right you are. My name is Juan, a pleasure to meet you. I must say, you look nothing like any of the other diners here, so I was intrigued. What is a man like you doing among nobles?" He extended a hand to shake. Sorry to cut into your RP. You can do whatever you like.
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  35. Diego observed the diners at their tables as he strummed. It was a side job, but all jobs are, at this restaurant. Same as always, upperclass nobles frolicking in their wealth while the skaa suffer. Diego, the quiet observer, philosopher, and guitarist. That was him. Pablo smiled as he sang. It was a good day, right? Nothing too bad was out and about, the ash still fell, and the wine was good. Juan had procured some delicious peppers and made up his signature salsa, and that made him happy any day. His eyes swept the tables, winked at a pretty noblewoman, and fell upon a man by the window. That was not a noble, not at all. He was so startled-- he didn't show it, of course-- that he didn't notice the noblewoman blush. What was a man like that doing among nobles? He sang to Juan. "See that man in the corner?" "Who, that guy?" "Si, him. Doesn't he look strange?" "I don't know, he looks like a fine man to me. What, did he take your money or something?" "No, no, he just looks out of place." "Look, you can just talk to him after the song. But we need to finish this, okay? This is my favorite part," Juan sang. Pablo gazed at the man. He had a rough disposition, looked like he had been through a lot. Those hard features, this was a fighting man. The bulge of his arm muscles... a blacksmith perhaps? Juan glanced over at that man Pablo mentioned. He was out of the ordinary. I wonder what Diego thinks of him, he thought. Soon, the song was over, and the noble applauded. Juan grinned and waved and bowed, then put his guitar into its case and set it against the wall by Diego. Diego would watch it for him, as he always did. He nodded to Pablo, and they walked over to the man by the window. Suddenly, they were stopped. It was the noblewoman. "Were you the one who winked at me?" She asked Juan. Juan shook his head. "No, my lady, that was my brother, Pablo. Here he is." "Who is this lady," Pablo hissed to Juan. "The noblewoman." "Oh... hello, good woman," Pablo said. Juan left the two of them to chat. He took the chair opposite the man and placed his arm on the table. With his other hand, he fiddled with his mustache. The mustache was quite intimidating, he had found. "So, who might you be, good man?" @Arinian
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  36. Shallan/Renarin used to be the leading ship prior to WoR release. My personal thoughts are it was made possible due to gaping holes left within both of their characters after WoK. Ever heard of the Standing OC trope? I feel a lot of Renarin discussions, especially those at the times of WoK, were digging heavily into it. In other words, the tropes call for a barely fleshed out characters, one with a few leading lines being established, but not much else, which catches the interest of fans thus proceeding to fill-in the holes with whatever they wish to read. I have seen a lot of it with Renarin and former Shallarin ship surfed heavily on it. It ran on the assumption Shallan would necessarily be looking for deep interest in scholarship within a partner and on the assumption Renarin has the mind of a scholar. None of these items were ever made canon: many fans just thought it fitted. Shallarin also required Shallan to be a very patient individual willing to slowly help built confidence in Renarin while WoR made it clear she has no patience for self-pitying. She is an action-oriented girl and she doesn't waste time whining and/or complaining about her sorry lot in life, worst the attitude in others just grates her. It grated her how Kaladin just kept on purposefully being mean to Adolin, kept on thinking the whole world has ploted to make his life miserable and she calls him out for it. Kaladin, at least, is able to pull himself together and to concede she has a point. Renarin? As far as we can tell, he just sank further down into his inner issues and even if he manages to get a grip of himself (which I sincerely hope he will, please have him figure out how to be useful), to stop focusing on what he doesn't' have, he still will probably never reach a confidence level which Shallan would find attractive. Or maybe he will, but it will be several years down the road. Several years too late for Shallan. Hence, this is why I do not think Renarin/Shallan works: Shallan's mindset is to focus on what she can do as opposed to obsess over what she cannot do. Anyone not sharing her energy would end up dragging her down. Adolin, as it turns out, has exactly the same mindset: focus on what you can do and try not to let your worries take up too much place or, at least, do not allow the,m to pester the whole world. As for Renarin... I do not think anyone has ever suggested, but how about Renarin/Drehy? We know Drehy is getting a boyfriend, but we do not know who... So what if Renarin's apparent complete lack of interest in women was linked to him just having other preferences?
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  37. I seek nothing if not approval of my fellow Sharders! Day 3:
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  38. LG31: Day 1 - Dancing Mist Our tale begins. The mist has set in and a solemn figure strolls through the dancing mist. Shoulders hunched, she makes her way to an imposing building, almost obscured by the veil. The Canton of Finance, the bank of the Final Empire. The mist’s fingers caress her body, swirling around her, almost...comforting. But no amount of comfort will help her, for she is to con an obligator. At the foot of the building, at the bottom of the stairs, she gives a deep breath and shudders. First step. Second step. She makes her way up through the dancing mist. A door, an imposing door, an imposing steel door stands in her way. A shiver, and a push. She’s inside. Men look up as she enters, an assortment of nobles and obligators. One raises an eyebrow, staring at her suspiciously. She smiles faintly at him and makes her way through the lobby, a spacious room with benches and tables along the side. She struts through the middle, hoping she looked confident until she comes to a large table at the end. The obligator at the table looks up and asks in a husky voice, “Appointment?” She nods and replies, “Fadrex city, I came to request an investment for a shipment to Fadrex City”. The man nods and looks down at his ledger. “Name?” “Ariel Gadth, related to the Hastings,” came the reply. “Everything seems to be in order, please make your way to the office at the end of the next hallway, ignore the bloodstains if you will”. Bloodstains? She wonders, “My thanks”. She pushes through to the next hallway, speed-walking to the office now. She enters the room without knocking, with a flourish of her hair. “I believe I am expected?” she announces arrogantly. The obligator in the room smiles, “Indeed…”. He studies her carefully and nods to the table next to him. “You will find all you need there, allow me to finish off this paperwork.” Two agonising minutes, and yes! She is homefree! She nods curtly at the obligator, snatches up the bundle and promptly leaves. She exits the establishment, wary of eyes watching her. The mists are there to greet her and she breathes a sigh of relief. The mist didn’t seem as animate as before… something was off. A slight rustle to her left. She turns, another to her right. She quickens her pace, eyes darting. Shadows in the sides of her vision, a glint of metal here, a shine there. Heart beating, hands sweating. She breaks into a frantic run….and runs into a body with a dull thump, she falls back onto the gravel, dropping everything. “You didn’t think we would be this easy to fool did you?” A scream. And the mists keep dancing. LG31 has begun! You have 48 hours to choose someone to lynch. Rules Clarifications: PMs are not open! Only Kandra may make PMs, and only two per cycle. Allomantic Tin only finds out the action, not the person targeted as well. Ties will result in a coin flip.
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  39. Look at Eshonai's POV's, I don't think there is a form of listener bond that isn't forceful. The right mindset and song helps attract the right spren, but she states that prior to bringing captive spren into the storm, you could go out wanting warform, and end up as a mate. I think all they can do it put themselves out into the storm at the moment of the change and hope that the correct spren is nearest. Once that spren is focused on them, the change happens regardless of what they want. If it were somehow only able to occur through acceptance of the spren, changing to a form they hadn't intended wouldn't be possible.
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  40. 1) I'm controlling a bunch of koloss and they do all my forum posting for me.
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  41. Szeth will succumb to Nightblood and die. Adolin will be found as the murderer of Sadeas and be executed, then Shallan will marry Sebarial. Lopen will become Cultivation's champion. Lift will use her Shardfork to slay a Marabethian greatshell. Wit will tell everything to Jasnah.
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  42. OMG not enough upvotes available for these two. Especially the first, but also Kobol for best show ever.
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  43. Dalinar is actually an extremely skilled Dysian Aimian. The real one died long ago.
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  44. Ah ha! Idea. Sodium: burning it will make you hate everyone. Sodium mistings are called "Salty." Feruchemical sodium stores irrationality. Sodium ferrings are called "Itchy."
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  45. Here's what I look like (my daughter too):
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  46. Ha, fun. Here, I'll do you guys a favor. I once tried to make my own 16-metal Metallurgic Table (which promptly failed; lack of ideas) but I do remember listing down the metals I had planned on putting there. Here it is: Bismuth Bismanol (88% Bismuth; 12% Manganese) Lead Durite (82.5% Lead; 17.5% Antimony) Cobalt Megallium (60% Cobalt; 20% Chromium; 5% Molybdenum; 15% Carbon or something) Nickel Argentan (--% Nickel; --% Copper or Zinc) Also known as "False silver" Gallium Galfonel (--% Gallium; --% Iron) Generic name for alloys of this kind Tungsten, once known as Wolfram Stellite (--% Tungsten; --% Cobalt; --% Chromium) Indium Fieldalloy (51% Indium; 32.5% Bismuth; 16.5% Tin) Manganese Mangalloy (15% Manganese; 85% Steel) Note that though Manganese is smaller in composition, it is alloyed with another alloy instead of a base metal like majority of the original metals. Here, have at thee.
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  47. Term 1: Month 2 - Not So Forever Young Kliin still felt ill from that tenaculum mixture from earlier. He couldn’t wait until he had an assistant to help him. Another brain to make him forever young…..yes. Yes, that would be quite grand. Someone knocked on the door. “Yes?” “Sorry to bother you, sir,” the master of the inn spoke through the door, “but there’s a young man here to see you. I had him wait at your usual table in the common room. Would you like to see him, or shall I send him away?” Kliin opened the door. “Did he say what he was here for?” The master nodded. “Said something about you needing an assistant and wouldn’t stop waving this paper in my face.” The master showed Kliin one of his own fliers for the assistant position, and Kliin snatched it out of his hand. That was fast, Kliin thought. Barely had to wait a few hours. He hurried past the master, ran down the stairs, and entered the common room, looking toward his table. There he is. Kliin didn’t recognize the man, but he looked sturdy and smart, and that’s really all he needed. Muscle and brains. Good assistant material, that. He sat at the table, placing the flier in front of the man. “You want to help me be forever young?” “I’m interested, yes.” “Excellent. Well, I’m Kliin, obviously. And you are?” The man hesitated for the slightest of seconds before saying, “Ferula.” “Perfect. Do you have any ideas for such a potion?” “One, yes. I heard your tenaculum idea didn’t work out so well. Since you’re so set on using grass, I thought perhaps another plant would perhaps work better. Specifically a mushroom variety. I brought some along, in fact, in case you wanted to get started right on it.” He pulled out a bag and placed it on the table. Kliin’s eyes widened. Felura--no, that wasn’t right. Kliin thought a moment. Ferula. That was it. Ferula was so eager to please him. Must be a lower class. Looks up to us Vintish Nobleman. Jolly good. He’d have to make sure the man was compensated appropriately. “Let’s head up to my little lab, shall we?” Ferula nodded. “Sounds stellar.” An hour later, after much mushroom-crushing, water-boiling, and grass-shredding, the mixture was ready. Kliin held it up, staring at the liquidy, greenish….goop. It looked spectacularly disgusting, but Kliin knew he’d likely tasted far worse things than whatever this tasted like. That tenaculum was pretty horrid. He brought the mug up in a “cheers” motion toward Ferula. “Here’s to youth.” He chugged it. And nearly spat it out. Forcing himself to swallow even the dregs, he put the mug on his desk and sat down. “That was….terrible.” “If it works, does it matter?” “I suppose not. We can always find a way to make the taste more bearable after all.” Kliin’s head felt heavy. And the room started to spin. “I….don’t feel so good. I think that mixture did something to my stomach.” Ferula nodded. “I should think so. They were supposed to, after all.” Kliin tried to look at Ferula, in shock, but the pain was too much. He fell off his chair, hitting the floor on his side. Had the man poisoned him? “What did you do to me?!” “Worry not. The Crockery will suit you well. After all, you actually believed my name was Ferula. Do I look like a Chandrian to you? Trust me, I’m nothing like them. Enjoy your stay, my dear man.” And Ferula left the room, as Kliin started screaming from the pain. - “No! No, no, no, no!” The Master Namer yelled at the Master Physicker, striking his hand on the table in time with his last, emphatic no. “You already let that prat of a Vint off. We’re not letting this one off too!” The Master Physicker rubbed his temples, cringing at the volume of the Master Namer. “You needn’t yell, Ashton. I’m sitting right next to you, and my ears work perfectly well.” “I don’t care about the state of your ears. This University needs to show discipline at this time. We had a dead student in the Crockery, for Tehlu’s sake. There are Skindancers out there! We need to show solidarity and that isn’t by letting off every accursed student who walks through here.” The Master Linguist sighed. “Chancellor? I move for a vote.” The Master Arithmetician nodded. “I’ll second that. Who here thinks that young Corrin here deserves punishment?” The Master Artificer, Sympathist, Alchemist, and Namer all raised their hands as one. “Four for punishment.” The Master Namer cleared his throat. “Five, actually. Martin here is voting too. See?” he said, pointing to his own hand he was trying to pretend was the Master Physicker’s. The Master Phsyicker shook his head and said nothing. “Four,” the Master Arithmetician repeated, “and let it be noted that Master Namer is persistent. Who votes against?” The other Masters voted slowly, but one by one, vote they did. The Master Arithmetician finally looked down at Corrin. “Congratulations. The charges have been dropped.” Corrin breathed a sigh of relief. He still had no idea what he’d even been taken On the Horns for, and as much as he wanted to ask, he didn’t want to press his luck at all. Best to leave while things were still a little in his favor. “If you could send in Silverblade, that will be all. Thank you, Corrin.” He nodded and hurried out of the room. “Your turn,” he muttered to Silverblade as he passed. He had more investigating to do. Time to really figure out what was happening to his family. No time to waste, particularly if what just happened was to be a regular occurrence…. Kliin (Clanky) has gone insane! He is now in The Crockery. Corrin (The Mighty Lopen) was brought On the Horns but the charges were dropped! Silverblade (Silverblade5) was brought On the Horns and was charged with Undignified Mischief! He needs to apologize this turn. PMs are being sent out right now. Everyone should have their PMs now. Player List
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  48. Term 1: Month 1 - A Silence of Three Parts The University of Imre lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The first was the silence of things lacking; night had fallen over Temerant, and with it, the world had fallen still. Had there been students in the taverns, celebrating, or bemoaning their tuitions, perhaps they would have driven it away, scattering it like leaves in the wind. But there were none to be found. Had there been artificers, working into the night at their forges, their trade would’ve shattered the silence. If there had been troupes performing in the villages, singing songs and entertaining, they would’ve filled the silence with sounds of joy. But of course, there was no music. The second was smaller, and less obvious. It could be found in the whispered conversations of the Mews, in the darkened windows of Imre’s inns. A furtive, unquiet silence, a feeling of unease. Contained within the first, it made a harmony of sorts. The last was not a subtle thing, yet, one could spend weeks wandering the University and not notice it. It could be seen, if one was in the right place, in a small red stain, seeping under one of the doors in the Crockery. It could be felt in the frantic, surprising cogent writings of the room’s lone inhabitant. It was in the peaceful expression on her face, contrasted by the violence in the room around her. The woman lay on the floor in a pool of red, eyes empty and clouded. She lay with a perfect stillness, that could only mean one thing. The third silence was hers, just as the room was hers. It was the chill, empty silence of a life ended. Brean Bentley has been found dead, killed by the Skindancers! The first month of term one has begun! Game PMs are being sent out right now. Feel free to PM players at your whim.
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  49. J. R. R. Tolkien * Forty pages of info about the history of tobacco in Alethkar * (This was awesome. )
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  50. He was the first because he was trying daily multiple times a day. He likely absorbed stormlight within hours of gaining the ability. Anyway teft said he swears he saw saw some member of bridge four glowing. As for why they are gaining these abilities i think it has something to do with how they worship kaladin and seem time be a good bunch of guys.
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