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  1. So I just finished Oathbringer, and at the very very end, I noticed that the parshwomen hoid gives the child to's husband's name is cob. his name is only mentioned once. In the bands of mourning, brandon gives wax's coachman cob one of the little descriptions he gives worldhoppers. I originally thought of this as a mistake, but after the confirmation(well, rafo) of two worldhoppers who's names were only mentioned once, I started to suspect. Any thoughts?
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  2. This game was a blast to co-GM, and I'm glad to have this experience. I learned a lot about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into these games, and also how to work a basic spreadsheet (turns out that there is code in the hidden columns). I wish this game and the spec doc were longer, but I'm also looking forward to getting more sleep soon Congrats to HH for that unexpected sweep, and keeping people thinking that you were harmless.
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  3. Hi everyone! I only discovered Brandon Sanderson’s books when it was announced that he was finishing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Since then I’ve read the first three Mistborn novels, Elantris and all of The Stormlight Archive (so far anyway!). I’m currently listening to Warbreaker as whilst I was enjoying Oathbringer I came across a thread on reddit which said that some of the characters in Oathbringer where actually from Warbreaker. I hadn’t even realised that all of the books shared the same universe so I’m new to the idea of the ‘Cosmere’. Wondering if I was alone in not having realised this sooner?
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  4. Aftermath: Freedom? The mob formed outside of Everen’s dorm. Shovels and crowbars waved above their heads, accompanied by laser drills and plasma cutters. The crowd pulsed dangerously. A shield of black mist flickered to life, enclosing the dorm. “Storm you, you Ruin-holder!” someone yelled. “It’s all your fault!” As far as rallying cries went, it wasn’t the best. But the mob was in this for blood, and they didn’t care much whose blood it was. With a roar, they surged forth and attacked the dorm with everything they got. Shovels and crowbars slammed against the shield, while laser drills and plasma burned holes into it. A tomato sailed the mist, and disappeared. The mob fought and kicked and screamed and punched the surprisingly solid barrier of mist. But no matter what they did, they couldn’t get through. --------------------- A few miles away, Everen sat in a table booth, eating a bowl full of Scadrialan noodeln. It was cheap and greasy, slathered with a too-salty sauce, but he didn’t seem to mind. He shovelled it into his mouth with a greed unbecoming of his persona here, but what the hell, nobody was around to judge, and these were Scadrialan instant noodeln. Well, there was Elaria, who sat across from him with a small, lined notebook open in front of her. Unlike Everen, she hadn’t ordered anything. “You said you had important business here, yes?” Everen slurped his noodeln loudly. “Yup. Eating these noodles.” “What,” Elaria said flatly. “You said you had something important to do here.” “I did,” Everen said. “This might be one of the last opportunities to eat instant noodles here before it closes. You should order something.” Elaria pressed her hands to her forehead and sighed. “No,” she said. “I won’t.” Everen shook his head at her stubbornness, if she wanted to discriminate against the food here because of preconceived notions, well, that was her loss. He slurped the noodeln again. Then he pushed the bowl of noodles to the side, along with this one indulgence of childlike glee, and turned his face serious. Time for business. “Recovering from Jeral’s death will be tricky,” he said. “We don’t really have advantages, save an assortment of miscellaneous Investiture.” “Nope,” Elaria affirmed. She looked down at her notebook. “I got an interesting message lately, set up by Cultivation. We could use that to…” she continued speaking. Funny, wasn’t it, how people responded so differently to different masks on the same person. The same core inside, but expressed in very different ways. Elaria was comfortable with him as employer and co-conspirator, less so with him as a lover of terrible quality noodeln. Everen smiled at the thought of how she would have dealt with some of his other identities in the past. Another pair slid into the booth, Elereod and Willie. Willie looked uneasily at Elereod’s shadow, which pointed the wrong way. “Khrissala, old friend, good to see you here,” Everen said. “Hoid,” Elereod acknowledged. “Good to see you too.” Elaria and Willie glanced at each other in surprise, then away. “Have you thought about what I said?” asked Everen. Elereod shook his head. “Everybody who takes up a Shard goes power-hungry at some point, Hoid. I don’t see how it would be any different with the holder of Adonalsium.” He paused, and for a moment Hoid thought he could see her wistful face under the illusion. “I wish things could be different, but no. I can’t join you.” “A shame, then,” Everen said softly. “You’ll believe it when you see it.” The two friends and their co-conspirators chatted late into the evening. --------------------------------- Across a half dozen different worlds, Autonomy kicked in the door to multiple separate government offices. Golden light blazed blazed around its body, illuminating its surroundings all across the Cosmere. On Taldain, the aspect Trell stood the a small, carpeted room that was the office of the Chancellor of Taldain. “Ais T’kalla,” he said grandly, “let us talk.” Ais scrambled back from his desk. “Who -- who are you?” “I am Autonomy,” it said. It noticed Ais fumbling for a button and said, “Your police will not help you here. I have taken care of them.” “W-what do you want?” Ais asked. He tried to smooth the fear out of his face, but it was too little, too late. They both knew Autonomy had the upper hand. “What I want, Mr. Ais, is for you to forget about your proposal of a United Interplanetary Nation Conference. Remove it from consideration, permanently.” “No,” Sabid said, frowning. “That’s ridiculous.” Meanwhile, on another planet 9,373,000,000 kilometers away, Prime Minister Tetalin Sebinal of Hallandren echoed the same sentiment in a ruder form. Patji leaned forwards onto Tetalin’s desk. “You will do as I say, because you will not enjoy the consequences if you don’t.” Tetalin stared into the Patji’s eyes, a contrast to the blubbering Prime Minister of Teod. “Whatcha you gonna with me if I don’t?” he said. “Hell if I’m gonna do what some random fu--” Patji grabbed Tetalin by the wrist and shoved him into its pre-prepared simulation. Golden light exploded around them. People rioted in the streets of Hallandren. Food was hard to find now, ever since those golden walls of light had shut it off from the wider world. The dye trade was practically dead now, along with a half-dozen related industries. Sure, manufacturing had returned for a short while, but then prices had caught up and destroyed that advantage. Hallandren was truly autonomous now, and was suffering for it. --------------------------- A dozen lightyears away, President Therese Quinette of Elendel came out of the vision blinking. For someone who had just witnessed the possible economic destruction of her country, she looked surprisingly composed. “How do I know that you won’t impose these borders anyway even if I withdraw my support for UINC?” “I can control myself,” The Sand Lord said. “Cutting off all travel between countries may increase autonomy in the short term, but it would also plunge the Cosmere into anarchy. I’ll be satisfied getting rid of UINC before it can reduce your people’s freedom even more than it currently is.” “Why do you dislike the UINC so much?” Therese asked. “The UINC would become a chokehold on each nation,” The Sand Lord said. Its eyes grew distant as it looked into the Spiritual Realm. “It might start out as just a free trade area and customs union, but over the years it would become a byzantine bureaucracy governed from Silverlight. Your people do not want this.” “What if I modified the proposal?” Therese asked. “Perhaps if --” “No!” The Sand Lord boomed. Its hands glowed ominously. “I will not allow the UINC to exist, ever!” On the distant planet of Roshar, Jiamo looked down at the defeated looking Premier of Alethkar, Jezeriah Kholin. “Why even give me a choice?” Jezeriah asked. “If you’re Autonomy... you could just, I don’t know, puppet our mouths to decry the UINC publically.” Jiamo shook its head. “I cannot,” it said. “Just as my nature forces me to destroy the UINC, it forces me to give all sapient beings a choice if I wish to control them.” Its lips quirked. “It does not, however, stop me from heavily weighing the choice to one side.” “Fine,” Jezeriah said. He held his hands up in surrender. “I’ll announce tomorrow that I think the UINC is a terrible idea. Happy?” “Yes,” Jiamo said. It, and all of its other aspects, turned and left the offices, before disappearing in a flash of golden light. The Autonomy of future generations had been preserved. All was well in the world. It could take a well-deserved break before implementing its next plan to increase maximum freedom in the Cosmere. --------------------------- Finn Scholz sat at the head of the conference table, watching his audience. The remains of SilverPoly’s administration. So many of the seats were empty. “Ladies, gentlemen, and those who are neither,” he said. “Thank you for appointing me Interim Vice Chancellor.” He looked out across the weathered faces of his staff. “I mourn the losses of Ruin’s latest attack, especially the late Daton Rild. I wish we had time to properly commemorate them, but our priorities now must lie with the living, not the dead. We must reopen SilverPoly as soon as possible.” He took a deep breath. “When we do, we will not reopen the Shard Lab.” Raona Sheran opened her mouth in outrage. Finn silenced her with a hand. “The power of Adonalsium is not for humans to trifle with. Ruin’s attack would never have happened if we did not open up a lab to study it. Exposure inevitably builds corruption, even in the most well-meaning of researchers.” Finn thought back to Daton, incinerated in the attack, and his face hardened. “That is why we will permanently drop the Investiture Science, Invested Physics, and Realmatics majors from our degree offering. Thank you for understanding, and let us hope this never happens again.” --------------------- The game is over! Autonomy (Hemalurgic Headshot) has reached their win condition of creating an aspect on every world! Survival (TheYoungPyromancer) has reached their win condition of being the Vessel of the Shard of Survival and surviving until the end of the game. Cultivation (Arinian) has failed to reach their win condition of ending the game with all Shards unshattered. Odium (Joe) has failed to reach their win condition of Shattering all of the Shards. The remaining factions have also failed to reach their win conditions! Thanks for playing everybody. Look for a retrospective from me in the next few days meditating on what went wrong with the game, what went right, and what I thought about it all. Player List: Young Bard - Jeral Adonalsium's Chosen-aligned Researcher and the Vessel of Devotion! Arinian - Eilen Independent aligned Researcher; Vessel of Cultivation Eternum - Habrian 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Honor Fifth Scholar - Darrel 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Dominion randuir - Met 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Ambition Steeldancer - Steeldancer and Eobard Thawne Returned Straw - Straw 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Preservation Jondesu - Quintus 17th Shard aligned Researcher Droughtbringer - Ralar 17th Shard aligned Researcher! Devotary of Sponteneity - Reed Khrissala and the Vessel of Ruin livinglegend - Unnamed Character 3 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Devotion (shattered) Orlok/A Joe in the Bush - Locke Tekiel Independent aligned Researcher; Vessel of Odium MonsterMetroid/RippleGylf - Willie Standard of Harmony-aligned Researcher Magestar - Moro 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Preservation Hemalurgic_Headshot - Jiamo Independent aligned Researcher; Vessel of Autonomy Megasif - Mega 17th Shard aligned Researcher Sart - Sam Taswell 17th Shard aligned Researcher TheYoungPyromancer - Kelsier Independent aligned Researcher; Vessel of Preservation _Stick_ - Stick 17th Shard aligned Researcher; Vessel of Endowment shanerockes - Philepe De Pedro Von Leiderhuch Johnson III 17th Shard aligned Researcher Drake Marshall - Everen Hoid Elbereth - Elaria Adonalsium's Chosen-aligned Researcher Docs Cognitive Realm (Dead Doc) Spiritual Realm (Spec Doc) Adonalsium's Chosen Standard of Harmony Braize World Doc Taldain World Doc Nalthis World Doc Roshar World Doc Scadrial World Doc
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  5. When your best friend is the type of person who promises he'll sneak Words of Radiance into the school dance so you can read it with him (it's the mass market paperback; there's absolutely no way we could have gotten in his hardcover copy), but then can't because his parents realize it's exactly the type of thing he'd do and then make sure all of his books are in his backpack before leaving. (This is really random, but I'm very proud to say that I put the original Pokemon theme song in the song request list. That is one of the only songs I would have danced to, but, unfortunately, the DJ didn't play it. Storming DJ doesn't know what storming music is.)
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  6. This possibility has come up before, but I want to address it more directly. I think the Everstorm is more than just an invested cloud, or an angry perpendicularity. I think there has to be some kind of spren inside it, holding it together, perhaps controlling it. In other words, the Everstorm has its own version of the Stormfather: the Everstormfather. And I think this Everstormspren plays a much more vital role in the Everstorm than the Stormfather does in the Highstorm. The evidence of this is highly sarcastic, but (I hope) compelling nonetheless. It has been the case, time after time, that when a magical mystery appears on Roshar, the solution is always the same: it's a spren. Where do the Knights Radiant get their powers? Bonding a spren. What are shardblades? The spren. Shardplate? Probably spren. Fabrials? Spren. Parshendi forms? Bonding spren. Giant crustaceans? Antigravity spren. Weird goings-on in Kholinar? Prophetic death rattles? The Thrill? Just some giant, sinister spren. What exactly is the Everstorm, and how can it be stopped? I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the answer will have something to do with... a spren! Probably a big, evil Odiumspren. Probably an Unmade. We're told that the Everstorm is definitely something new, but old in design. It was conceived a long time ago, perhaps during a previous Desolation, but not implemented until the present day. But why? The Everstorm, by constantly reviving the Fused, makes the Desolation permanent. It seems like a huge advantage, which they should have deployed the moment they came up with it. As far as we know, all it requires is some singers in Stormform, which were probably abundant in the Desolations of old. So why didn't they do it? Occam's Razor would probably point to either Honor or the Oathpact. One of those two things somehow prevented the Everstorm from forming, or threatened to swiftly dissolve it. The simple answer is that the Everstorm is only possible now that Honor is dead, or now that the Oathpact is weakened. But I'm going to propose another factor. Maybe creating the Everstorm requires something we can't see. Maybe it requires that something be sacrificed. Odium wasn't willing to make this sacrifice back in the olden days, but desperate times call for desperate measures. He has finally chosen to sacrifice one of the Unmade. My theory is that one of the Unmade had to sacrifice its freedom and its identity, and be transformed into the Everstorm. It is one of the Unmade that are presently not accounted for: Chemoarish and Dai-Gonarthis. One of those two lives inside the Everstorm, holding it together. And Dalinar, or another Bondsmith, will eventually destroy the Everstorm by trapping this Unmade in a gem. It could also be Moelach. As far as I know, there have been no Death Rattles since the formation of the Everstorm. If this is true (someone please tell me if it's not), it's the only real evidence behind this theory. In the ancient Desolations, Odium chose not to make this sacrifice because it wasn't worth his while. If Honor could simply destroy the Everstorm, or if the old Oathpact prevented it, then it wasn't worth the sacrifice of an Unmade. Or perhaps he was satisfied with Desolations as a cycle, and saw no need to make a permanent one. The evidence in Oathbringer does suggest that things were going well for him. Maybe he thought he was just a few Desolations away from total victory, so he saw no need to speed things up at the expense of one of his most powerful servants. This was all changed by the Melishi Incident. The lobotomy and enslavement of the Parsh deprived Odium of his armies, and the Everstorm was the only way to get them back. No servant, even an Unmade, is as valuable as an entire race. That's why they dug up the "old design." The real purpose of the Everstorm was to restore the Singers. Continually resurrecting the Fused was just a convenient side effect. Thoughts?
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  7. I was honestly just bored in seminary (religious studies) in school one day, so I started looking up random stuff in the Bible Dictionary. I found Apollyon, which is apparently translated from Greek to mean ‘destruction’ which is a plus. It’s also used as the title for the ‘angel of the abyss’ which sounds cool, and the abyss is a very central idea to my books.
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  8. When you desperately try to think of how everything is related to Sanderson so you can post it here.Then you think of this post...
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  9. Hey guys! I'm super excited to share with you my latest tattoo, the Immortal Words from these amazing books which I love soo much! I'm so happy with how it turned out, and I couldn't wait to share it with you all!
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  10. Happy Easter, Happy Passover, and Happy April Fool's, y'all! Had a fabulous day of birding on Saturday and got some new photos. Crocuses blooming (2 photos): European Starling (1 photo): American Avocets (2 photos):
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  11. So we currently know 10 shards: Devotion, Odium, Preservation, Ruin, Dominoin, Cultivation, Honor, Endowment, Autonomy, and Ambition. My theory is that every shard has an opposite. Ruin and Preservation are obvious, but some of the pairs are a little less obvious. Odium, which means an exetreme hate, would be opposites with Devotion, Autonomy, which means self governing, would be opposite with Dominion, which basically means governing over others. I am less certain about the rest, and suspect we have not met their opposites. We still have Cultivation, Honor, Endowment, and Ambition. These 4 would pair up with 4 of the undiscovered shards, and there is still an undiscovered pair. I think it is possible that the possible Survival shard would be Cultivation’s opposite because things that “just survive” don’t grow. Honor’s opposite would be something along the lines of Disgrace. Endowment would be something along the lines of taking, maybe Appropriation. Ambition would be Satisfaction. Of course, this still leaves 2 shards open to possibilities. Please let me know your thoughts or ideas for better opposites.
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  12. Brandon says the Shattering assigned all existing Investiture to one of the Shards. I believe Roshar, the planet’s land mass, is assigned to Autonomy. “Somebody” raised that land mass from the sea just like Autonomy’s avatar raised Patji. Because I believe the “Spren of Stone” is the third Sibling, I think that Sibling now belongs to Autonomy. Analysis I quote the relevant WoBs below. Bracketed numerals refer to that numbered WoB. Roshar is “a pretty weird planet…a created planet.” [1.] To me, this implies Adonalsium may have created Roshar after the cosmere’s creation. Roshar specifically incorporates Adonalsium’s “touch and design.” The Eila Stele names the Singer gods “spren, stone, and wind.” Most believe the wind and spren are the Stormfather’s and Nightwatcher’s pre-Shattering predecessors. I agree with posters who think the third Sibling is the Spren of Stone. I think the Spren of Stone is the Rosharan continent’s consciousness. I believe the figure hovering above the blue disk with outstretched arms in Urithiru’s basement is that consciousness, as it raises the continent from Roshar’s oceans (the disk). The Spren of Stone IMO is the “somebody” who specifically designs and creates Roshar’s land mass according to fractal mathematics principles. [2, 3.] The continent surfaces from Roshar’s oceans after the planet’s creation. (The Horneater Peaks above the crem-line hold slate, a sedimentary rock. [6.]) I suspect Szeth’s “great spren of the mountains,” his people’s aboshi, is another name for (or a subspren of) the Spren of Stone. Kaladin notices Kholinar’s windblades resemble Urithiru’s striations, maybe another manifestation found near every Oathgate city. Highstorms bury the continent in crem. [4.] Even pre-Shattering crem carries Invested nutrients, supporting native flora and farmers. [9, 10.] Rosharans don’t know, or even ask, where crem comes from. [8.]. “On Roshar…environmental factors ARE magical components.” [7.] I think crem now comes from Autonomy. It’s the same pattern as Taldain (IMO). Invested water circulates through the atmosphere. On Taldain, solar radiation Invests the oceans, which the natural water cycle distributes. On Roshar, the highstorm distributes crem gathered from Roshar’s oceans. We don’t know the source of crem’s oceanic Investiture – could it come from Roshar’s sun? And could Dysian Aimians now be of Autonomy? They too are a magic-wielding autonomous consciousness. Their magic broadly resembles Sand Mastery. Both cause remote objects to take a commanded shape. A Dysian does that with his body parts, not microflora. Something to chew on, maybe… I do think Autonomy will yet be moved to look at Rosharan events. If Bavadin hasn’t already, she/he may soon realize the scope of her Investiture there. I believe we’ve been “foreshadowed.” Relevant WoBs 1. Roshar is “a pretty weird planet…a created planet.” Source. 2. Roshar “is modeled after the Julia Set. Which is meant to indicate that Roshar was designed specifically…[and not] through crem buildup.” Source. 3. “The whole idea that this is a fractal-- The whole point of that is, somebody built this. Somebody built this using mathematics that you know. They said ‘Oh. Boom. Bing!’ and grew themselves a continent.” Source. 4. “The geography on Roshar was developed as a natural outgrowth of the highstorm…. I had to find a mechanism by which stone was deposited by rain, because I felt that the constant weathering over that long of a time would leave no continents…. They don't have plate tectonics. The continent actually moves as it gets weathered on the east and gets pushed that direction over millennia of time.” Source. 5. Roshar’s continent is not composed solely of crem. Source. 6. “Horneater peaks you're probably going to get into some more slate, some more dark grays and things like this, weathered stone that doesn't have the crem buildup because the peaks are gonna pop up above where the crem is building up, so.” Source. 7. “On Roshar, the environment and magic are so intertwined, environmental factors ARE magical components.” Source. 8. Where crem comes from is “one of the greater mysteries. Far in the future, scientists on Roshar will start asking that same question.” Source. Brandon RAFOs whether the Everstorm creates crem. Source. 9. “Even pre-Shattering [stormwater] would get a metallic taste, that's the crem. So. That is an indication of Investiture and things. But it was there – It was in place first, before.” Source. 10. “[Both natural flora and farmers] have to get all of [their] minerals and things basically have to come from the crem.” Source. 11. Brandon says crem is “more like Shard poop” than spren poop, though it’s “not really poop.” Sources One and Two. He also laughs off the question whether Lift’s “metabolic waste” holds crem but doesn’t specifically RAFO it. Source.
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  13. What happened to Marsh after the Catacendre? Even with his role in aiding Vin against the Lord Ruler and defying Ruin's control to remove her earring at the critical moment, it would seem he wasn't embraced by the other "Originators" like Spook, Ham, and Breeze, given his legendary status at a symbol of death. Probably he didn't try to reintegrate himself in the first place. When we see him interacting with Marasi in Era 2, he has access to steel and zinc to do allomancy, but he can't just stroll into a shop and buy it, can he? For that matter, don't Inquisitors still need to eat, to fuel the physical bodies that still do age and die and need to rest? Looking as he does, Marsh can't exactly visit restaurants and markets. Perhaps the high priests of Sliverism are tasked with his upkeep?
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  14. I think someone might have believed you and updated the Coppermind... https://coppermind.net/wiki/Sovereign
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  15. An adbridged Red and Black from Les Mis, spoilered for length
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  16. I'm just going to reiterate my response for basically introducing any other Shard at this point: Thematically, I think it would be a bad idea, and I don't think Brandon is interested in doing that.
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  17. @Seonid, @Arraenae, thank you for this great game. It was very fun (I won). It was a very interesting game to play, and if I hadn’t focused on Autonomy, I’m sure I would have been overwhelmed by everything going on, even everything I wasn’t aware of. Mentions to Arraenae again for the superb write ups. Excellent.
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  18. Having just searched through several pages of results, it took them a while to connect the dots. They were heavily influenced by that Jezrien = Stormfather connection for years. Earliest reference to the Beggar being a Herald(that I can find) is this, back in 2011: First Reference I can find about him being Jezrien is in 2013(after the release of Lift's Interlude with the "drooling" reference). Curiously, it's also a post against said theory, which is fascinating, as there is nothing related to it earlier in that topic. It's almost out of nowhere. On the subject of calling it early though, we have this. Not only is this from 2010, it's the very first usage of the word "Shalash" on this site.
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  19. When you go to the library or bookstore and the first section you go to is fiction looking to see if the library/store has the Sanderson book available you have been waiting on forever.
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  20. Welcome to the Shard, hope you like it here as much as I do! First, if you want to theorize and make topics about certain things, I’d first read some articles in http://coppermind.net, the Brandon Sanderson wiki.
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  21. Welcome to the Shard. Have an upvote! Be aware that people are going to ask you to give away your Breath or have Hemalurgic cookies. I found out about Sanderson from a close friend telling me about Mistborn and how
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  22. Feruchemical nicrosil is one of the great mysteries of the modern cosmere, so it's hard to speak with any confidence about it. But I'll say this much: all compounding draws huge bursts of investiture from Preservation. A nicrosil compounder and an iron compounder are both doing basically the same thing; the only difference is that the iron compounder turns that investiture into weight, and the nicrosil compounder turns it into... something else. Drawing this quantity of investiture from Preservation does not seem to affect the Shard itself in any noticeable way. And even if the soulburster was storing investiture from a foreign shard, like surgebinding, the compounding would still draw power only from Preservation. It would be using Preservation's power to mimic Honor's, but it should not affect Honor. I think.
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  23. Religion? This wouldn't work on any internet-forum except the Shard, but I suspect the tone will be civil here. My main one (this is incredibly unpopular here in Sweden): is that I think abortion is morally wrong. To steer this into more entertainment related discussions, I don't like Jasnah and would have preferred if she stayed dead.
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  24. Happy Easter! I'm excited that I'm going to Easter mass at 11:00 am today, instead of 5:00 pm mass that I normally go to, and that the youth choir isn't singing today. Because, really, singing in choir is my favorite part of mass. And Easter mass is always crowded, being a holy day of obligation and all. Ah, well. Also exciting for me: This week I am going on a field trip for my school chorus (I am in chorus at school, and the youth choir at church) to New York. To sing in Carnegie Hall for a festival that involves high school choruses from across the country singing there. It's also going to be the first time I've flown on an airplane. I'm excited and scared all at once.
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  25. I love that the WoR chapter where Dalinar hunts a corrupted spren in a vision is titled Taker of Secrets, which we now know is one of Sja-Anat's titles.
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  26. You have no idea... And that's a wrap, everbody! Game, set, match! Aftermath thread will be up when a writeup is finished.
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  27. @Sauceborn little mistborny to me, i would just watch on how you use the powers. Tho i would rename the burning to something else? like siphoning or iunno, ill keep thinking Reds - what if the body doesnt counteract. meaning, you increase your weight too much, your legs cant hold that much and break. could use on an enemy for that, or throw them in a river and drown..or acid...whatever. Yellow - objects infused maybe you feel attracted to the object. distraction thing. infuse a baseball and roll it in a room, and the person closest feels an overwhelming need to pick it up or focus on it. Green - sounds pretty awesome to me. I think its perfect.
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  28. The stormwall hit Kharbranth, sending trash whizzing down alleyways and temporarily cleaning out the stench of death and disease that had begun to hang over Kharbranth. Most of the people were inside; the only ones who weren’t were those too weak to walk. In the large shelter by the town square, Eternum’s absence had been noticed. “Hopefully he’s in another shelter,” someone said, “I’d hate to think what shape he’d be in if he was out in the storm.” The door to the shelter banged open and a wretchedly-dressed boy rushed in, soaked to the skin. “Message from Captain Greer, sirs. Eternum’s body was found just before the Highstorm hit.” It was amazing what the street urchins would do for a couple spheres. This one had apparently run through the city, in a highstorm, dodging from shelter to shelter, just to bring a single sentence. And yet the message had such a great effect on those in the shelter that nobody thought to pay him. “It’s Coop! He lied about the hiccups and now this!” “It’s the crazy pig lady! It’s always the crazy pig lady!” “It’s Droughtbringer! He’s been so quiet lately--it could have been the guilt, right?” More voices joined the shouting match, and soon enough punches were being thrown. A pair of city guardsmen attempted to break up the fight, but it took them 15 minutes to finally round up the instigators and send them to the far corners of the shelter. When the tussle finally cleared, a body could be seen, laying facedown in the center of the shelter. It was Coop, trampled in the melee. Coop was lynched! They were a Scholar allied with the Kharbranth Citizens! Eternum was killed! They were a Private Detective allied with the Kharbranth Citizens! Scholar: Strong Opinions: Your votes cannot be tampered with. Vote count: Coop (3): Eternum, Hero, Devotary Madagascar (2): Steeldancer, Coop Player list:
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  29. My birds are weird. She got stuck in between her cage and the dresser. I had to move the cage for her to get out. The other one was just sitting on the top of the cage, watching. Now they're both up there. Weirdos.
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  30. Not to my knowledge. ◘ The Parshendi believe that they didn't do it, and the Song of Wars dates at least that far back. Song of Histories dates back as far as the First Desolation. ◙ Navani(and likely other Vorin scholars) believe it to have happened during Aharietiam. ◘ Brandon has only said "great magic unleashed here" with respect to the Plains. ◙ Many of us(myself included) believe the event coincided with the assault on Bo-Ado-Mishram during the False Desolation. As the others have mentioned, it was a fair bit more than a "vague feeling." In my opinion, the last revelations we got(invading Roshar, destroying Ashyn) were merely the final straws, so to speak.
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  31. Someone out there needs this. Someone always does.
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  32. Found at https://doitforthevinebud.tumblr.com/post/171971919356/meme-spren-tanoraqui-from-syls-point-of I related so hard because I devoured those horse books as a kid.
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  33. I've noticed that Brandon is very good at magic oriented exposition. He rarely has a tutorial character per se, except in Mistborn and Warbreaker, we are always learning along with the character or just get the gist of it without it having to be told to us. Of course, there needs to be a balance. I had no idea what one of the magic things were at the end of Aether, even when we obviously were suppose too. Just something I've noticed.
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  34. My user name came from a MMO video game years ago (I think the first one I used it on was WoW, maybe Perfect World). I used to just keyslam when picking a name, then adjust it make it sound better. I really liked this one, so I've stuck with it for several years over several platforms.
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  35. Given the context, i can't think of a single other scenario that would lead to endgame, so yeah, Gratz HH.
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  36. From the album: Stormlight Archive desktop wallpapers

    1920x1080 wallpaper for the Order of the Elsecallers. The quote is one used to describe the order in Words of Radiance.
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  37. @Mistspren it's probably a bit unconventional but ever since I discovered Zahel is Vasher, he's been pretty high on my list. @Tineye Navigator thanks!
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  38. Notes as reading Oh god. I think I have literary whiplash. The tone/themes are not clear and it’s scaring me. Judging from the tone so far, maybe pull the suicide reference? Find some other way to make the point about the character losing it. I, and a lot of other readers, have a fairly visceral reaction to anything relating to suicide, so having it just thrown in there was brutal on my immersion. “Inhuman coercion” sentence needs another rewrite. Is this the way things normally go? I had this pegged as a mystery, but having the antagonist pointed out like this makes “plot twist, he’s not the antagonist!” *and* making him actually the antagonist obvious, with no real good options. I have no idea where this is going, but you’ve just messed up the whodunnit aspect for me, unless things get much more interesting.
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  39. Renarin is very likely. For Venli It's hard to say as we didn't see her Powers yet. If her Form contributes to the interaction, sure.
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  40. Am I? / Thus think I: / I am.. / am I? / I think. / Thus I am.
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  41. Wait a minute. Perfect Keteks don't change verb form (or switch between noun and verb form)? I thought you were allowed to change verb form and still have it be a perfect Ketek. To me, it sounds nice when you try to change the form a little bit, because it adds more variation. Oh well. Here's some more I've made. Falling, / the ground recedes. / Watching skies. / Watching receding ground. / The falling. Falling, the ground recedes. Watching skies. Watching receding ground. The falling. Eh. This one's not the best. Voidbringers: / Darkness rising from skin. / Their horrifying unearthly forms constantly forming unearthly horrors, / their skins from rising darkness. / Voidbringers. Voidbringers: Darkness rising from skin. Their horrifying unearthly forms constantly forming unearthly horrors, their skins from rising darkness. Voidbringers. Very very very good (well, I think so). This one actually is a decent length and is pretty cool. Storms. / Dying men. Appearing on horizons, / then leaving the horizons. / On appearing, men die. / Storms. Storms. Dying men. Appearing on horizons, then leaving the horizons. On appearing, men die. Storms. Kinda lame. Swift as wind, even. / Not killing men. / Protecting. / Protecting men killed. / Not even wind as swift. Swift as wind, even. Not killing men. Protecting. Protecting men killed. Not even wind as swift. Talking about Kaladin. See now, it might not make sense why he would be protecting men killed if they’re already dead, but killed is actually supposed to be a future perfect passive participle, which should be translated “about to be killed.” In Latin, it would be one word, but unfortunately, I cannot do that with English, so I just said “Protecting men killed” and wrote you a note telling you that it should be translated as a future perfect passive participle. Oh yeah, and the end “Not even wind as swift,” is just telling you that even the wind is slower than he. This one isn't too good though.
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  42. From the album: The Girl who Looked Up

    Most of my work comes from speedpainting every day (It was my resolution), but I wanted to slow down for this one and give you guys some of my line work. This scene really jumped out at me from how Sanderson described it.
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  43. I wrote a few keteks after seeing this thread, but here are the best: This one I made up myself: And these are based on death rattles from the series (the second one is very sad...):
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  44. Me when I'm talking to people: And what I imagine happens to anyone who denies hoid:
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  45. In the beginning there were three realms, and never did they meet. In time, there grew a tree, with roots in the physical, branches in the cognitive, and leaves in the spiritual. All was well. There was peace in the Cosmere for a great long while when arose the most heinous of creations, the Matchendi. The Firebringers. The Firebringers threatened the life of the Tree. The very connection binding the Cosmere together. The Tree is old and wise and knew it could not do battle directly with the Firebringers. It brought forth a portion of itself, a portion with connections to all tree realms, and so was born the first Stickbinder. The Stickbinder sallied forth do battle with the unholy Matchendi. The cry of “I am a STICK”, dousing their flames and bringing fear to the cajun fried hearts of the Firebringers. Alas, though the Stickbinder was strong the Firebringers were numerous, and the last that was heard was the defiant cry “STICK” before being consumed. Fear not, the sacrifice of Stickbinder Prime (as it shall forever be known) was not in vain. The Tree was able to bring forth many more Stickbinders. All the worlds were populated by Sticks. The Matchendi saw this, and were afraid. So arose the Church of the Stick. It is the solemn duty of all Sticks to guard against the return of the Firebringers, and live lives of Sticky goodness after the example of Stickbinder Prime. Excerpt from “I am a STICK: The true story of Stickbinder Prime”
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