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In the fight for supremacy of the 4th roast tournament, one round stands out…. The Nobility of Roshar is grouped together to roast each other… While the smoke rises from the Rift based roasts, in a clearing a figure steps out, dressed in a splendid coat made of the best Liaforian fabrics…. While the word HATE appears in golden flames on the ground, he starts to rap in a perfect beat, initiating the end of this round….

It if was up to me, I’d start a petition to make the Rosharan nobility participate in at least one rap battle... um, Stormlight 4 anyone? Here’s the link... https://goo.gl/forms/LpwFpZqhUllqElM72 VOTE VOTE VOTE!

The following passage was deleted due to the sheer idiocy of its content: The REAL Roast:

Favorite Word = MINE!

So this week in general was great. Especially yesterday, but all in all I am really happy right now. Yesterday we went to a concert of my favourite band and they were fantastic. They played lots of great songs, especially lots of older ones. It was really fun to see, how the crowd was quieter when they announced their old ones. I have almost no voice today, because I had to sing every song along. Their music helped through a lot of darker times in my life and to see them again after three years, I can't really describe how much that means to me. And I decided to go to another concert of them again in two weeks. There are still tickets available And my brother and I decided to fly to Australia next year and right now it looks like my company will play along and I can go. And Skyward hit the market this week and it was great!

Lol, I asked so many questions of Brandon that he misquoted himself in my personalization. He combined "Can I eat your lunch?" and a Skyward quote to make "Can I eat your stars?". Ladies and Gentlemen, Lift now wants to eat the stars... For those of you who were asking about whether or not I am present on the 17th Shard, here I am. Brandon answered two things for me.... (Spoiler Alert for Oathbringer and Elantris) In the scene between Odium and Taravangian at the end of Oathbringer, we see Odium expanding upon The Diagram with his future sight. There is a blacked-out portion with Renarin's name linked to it. Brandon confirmed that this is because Renarin's future sight interferes with Odium's in a manner similar to how burning Electrum interferes with Atium. He said that all future sight interferes with each other through a sort of ripple effect. With Elantris, Brandon stated that the Dor's renewal of Elantrians is partly because of the changes wrought upon them and partly because of the large Aon Rao that forms Elantris. With respect to the changes wrought on the Elantrians, he said that it is partly because of changes to the spiritweb and partly because of physical changes to their body (similar to the physical changes in the Dakhor monks). He RAFO'd everything else unfortunately...

On one hand, i got promoted to a bridgeman. On the other hand, i was a spearman before. So did i actually fot demoted?

Looking back on this, I'm more minded to view Fifth as a villager from it. Given the actions of Metaterminal, It looks like the eliminators tried to keep me from being praised in the first cycle. This post contradicts itself within four lines. He claims to want a D1 lynch, fitting with common village wisdom, but sets a standard of voting for himself far higher than is feasible on D1, and conveniently prevents him from expressing an opinion. I'm similarly slightly suspicious of Elandera for the push to prevent my being praised, particularly in light of some of her later interactions with Metaterminal and Rathmaskal, but much less so than of MetaTerminal. Here, Elandera puts thoughts on the lynch into the open, contributing to discussion, and I'm still unconvinced that the attack on her was a WGG. Again, fear of me without rationale, and voting for a candidate demonstratively as influential in the first cycle. Why would Fifth not be just as much of a risk of shooting yourself in the foot? Here Meta requires someone else vote properly before removing a poke vote, seemingly to encourage discussion, whilst simultaneously acting in a way that admits to having no reason for his own vote. The double standard, and the refusal to engage in alignment indicative posting build my suspicion of MetaTerminal. Again, a lack of alignment indicative information, and jumping on a bandwagon. This is the first post that clears Araris for me. He quite correctly points out that Metaterminal shouldn't be nearly as frightened of me as he claims to be. Elandera summarises the thread, which I normally find suspicious, but adds her own thoughts. Her suspicion of MetaTerminal this early leads me to further diminish my suspicion of her. @MetaTerminal, why then did you vote to praise Fifth Scholar in the same cycle? He was just as vocal in the cycle as I'd been, and was just as much of a threat with influence. Further, I've never played a game with you that I recall, and am unsure why such paranoia is therefore apparent. This reads very much to me like an attempt to justify preventing village!Orlok from having influence due to fear your team has made you aware of. MetaTerminal goes to great lengths here to have us avoid looking for eliminators in the bandwagon he joined. MetaTerminal defends Rathmaskal (further links between them later), and votes on Fifth, an active player. He backpedals significantly on his views on the Cadcom lynch. At this point, I might conclude that MetaTerminal was the only eliminator in this lynch. I'm minded to clear Steeldancer for this post. Araris' continued focus on MetaTerminal also leads me to believe he's a villager. Link between MetaTerminal and Elendara. I keep flipflopping on whether they're teammates, or whether this is a pocketing attempt. Definitely worth a scan, and maybe a lynch after lynching MetaTerminal and Rathmaskal. Further interaction between MetaTerminal, Rathmaskal, and Elendara. This strikes me as a panicking eliminator distancing himself from the team, when he thinks he might die. Real life happens, and I'm very surprised by the vote on me here. The vote removal from Rathmaskal feels odd, at this point. This post saved MetaTerminal, and with the above leads me to think MetaTerminal and Rathmaskal are teammates. At this point, I'd clear Steeldancer, Araris, and Fifth, and would like other views on Elandera.

Defending Elysium spoilers ahead.

Im sorry if this offends human love only people but im going to just toss this out into the cosmere. My dream couple is Syl the "timepiece spren" and that emo surgeon with them puppy dog glowing light eyes Kaladin. I mean by ruin, if a kandra can shag wayne then an piece of honor can get with a human

Hello. I'm Zinc Counselor. Been perusing the forums and WOB for a while. Finally officially joining your ranks.

My first signing. Great to hear him talk and hear that noncanon scene from Stormlight 9. I got a couple books signed, and asked him about kandra and aviar. Me: I know you've said in the past there are size limitations for what kandra can mimic, like they can't lop off a part of their body and make a squirrel. So my question is if a Kandra in human form absorbed or consumed an aviar and placed it on their shoulder like a pirate, it wouldn't be able to fly off ever but it would be a contiguous part of their body connected to them. So could the kandra gain the aviar's abilities? Sanderson: *thinks* No. Good question! No, because they're just replicating the body not the soul.

I only asked him one question Me: In The Final Empire, the captain of the Luthadel garrison is named ‘Bevidon’ Brandon: Yes Me: which sounds suspiciously like Bavadin Brandon: It does Me: Any connection there? Brandon: RAFO

Hey! That was mine! EDIT: he didn’t say the end but though. I think we both asked the same question.

Which account is in question here @Badadah? I want to do some testing.

No idea if he had to do something specific. Ten minus One because he is the Void is what I lean towards. There’s a lot we don’t know, the 10 gas giants are weird. It’s like the systems magic # is 10 because of them. You would think it would be 13 or 16. They are also named for the 10 essences and are portrayed as having the same color as the gemstones of each radiant order. I don’t know if that’s an in world artistic flair or if the gas giants actually are those colors.

My work-around for that is to post a status update on their page, then report my post. Alternatively, you could PM them, then report your PM's OP. I find that the mod's response is often underwhelming in these cases. Usually they remove their About Me page, and purge the info from their bio, but rarely delete the account. Sure, most bots are harmless, and hardly worth reporting. For most accounts, people will only see the ads if they go to the bot's profile page. But leaving the account intact means their username is unavailable for real people, and it artificially inflates our member tally. I know that the mods don't want to accidentally delete a real person's account, so for benign accounts they often play it safe and just maim it, which is fine. But I wish they had an option to 'hide' accounts, like they can do to posts (maybe create a special title for bots, like the Arcanist and Global Mod titles, but it revokes the accounts ability to be seen). Or they renamed obviously fake accounts SPAMBOT####### to free up their username and make it obvious what they are. That said, I don't want to take away from all the great work they currently do to fight bots. Y'all are super dedicated and on top of things, and I appreciate it.

As @Invocation said, the entire system was created. 10 gas giants. 3 (arguably) habitable planets. 3 moons on Roshar. 16 celestial bodies.

Just got done reading it all in one sitting, someone remind me not to do that again. First thoughts I had after finishing was I really got to work on my insults and battle cries some the ones I read were just too good. Second thoughts I had was I felt that the answer to some of the questions answered were answered to close to the end of the book I understand that we are getting more books, but come on at least give us more time to take them in. Other than that I really liked how Sanderson developed Spensa over the course of the series. Oh and there is totally something up with Doomslug I mean a slug that can move incredibly fast in an instant screams teleportation to me.

Lift singing "I'm on the edge the edge, the edge the edge, the edge the edge THEEEE EEEEDDDDGGGGEEE!!!!" The king leads everyone on singing a version of "How do we solve a problem like Maria" but with Siri as the theme.

I figured it was about time I lived up to my name! Here is some lyrics plus recording for "Rolling in the Deep...ness". Much spoilers for Mistborn Era 1, enjoy my mediocre guitar skills and not at all Adele-esque singing. This is Vin's angry break up song to the Lord Ruler. Lol. Rolling in the Deep...ness.m4a

*hugs @Ashspren and @Inklingspren* People suck. That's just life, but it sure doesn't make it any easier. Ashspren, talk to her. Not even necessariliy to her face-to-face, but find a way to tell her all of that. Honesty is a solution that almost always works. Tell her how you've been feeling and most likely you'll discover some miscommunication you've both been missing. Ink, time does wonders to rumors. The moment something else comes out, you'll be considered old news. Probably. And hope your mom gets home soon-ish so you will cease to be headphoneless.

Okay, so this may seem kind of petty, but it’s actually been affecting me, unfortunately, and I’ve gotta get some thicker skin and get over it. Basically, there was this girl. She was a friend of mine for a very long time, and we were inseparable. Now, come this year, something, for some reason, changed. When she’s around other people, she acts like she doesn’t know me. But, when it’s the two of us, she still acts different than what it was before, just... different. Sometime after she changed, she found out that I hadn’t told her this “very important” secret. It turned out to be the fact that a very close friend of mine wanted to ask her out. He asked me not to tell anyone, so I said I wouldn’t. Case closed. I don’t ever go back in someone’s trust like that. However, she came up with some rules of “being best friends” and said that we had to tell each other everything. Then, she proceeded to poke into my social life, and after literally thirty seconds, she proceeded to tell me, “This is all you ever talk about. Why can’t we talk about something else?” For the entire three months after that, she didn’t talk to me. At all. I felt like this was kind of melodramatic. Now, throw an over enthusiastic friend into the equation. Like, look dude, I love you and all, and you’re like an annoying twin brother to me, but please please please stay out of this. He noticed that we were having problems in our friendship, and he is someone who I’ve always confided in. Unfortunately, he ended up telling her everything that I said about her. I didn’t say anything bad, but still, I wouldn’t want somebody to go around telling people what I say. It’s personal. His solution was to stage a conference call with the old friend and I, and have him acting as a mediator between us. I decided against it, because I didn’t want to get more people involved. I appreciate that decision more and more, now. I don’t want to blow this up. Now, add in the fact that she started insulting a close friend of mine. I don’t know if she’s jealous, but news flash to her: she’s the one who started acting different! Throughout this entire “distant” period, I’ve been trying to talk to her and just have a conversation, but she blows me off and essentially avoids me. Finally, the most recent part. I found myself thinking, “Nope. This is the end. Put on the Taylor Swift, because ‘the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now,’ and ‘we are never ever ever getting back together.’” “Hey, [Ashspren]! Yesterday was, like, the first time in four years that you haven’t come over! It’s almost tradition!” She didn’t invite me over. “Haha, yeah, stuff just got really busy.” The next day, via social media, I found out that she invited a bunch of other people over. I don’t know why this bothered me so much, because I knew everything was pretty much done, but it did. I think it was maybe the fact that she had the nerve to say, one day after all of those other people went over, that I hadn’t been there. It really just rubbed me the wrong way. Anyway, I realize that she’s actually a very toxic person to have in my life, but I still look back and see all of the good times from earlier in our “friendship days,” y’know? It’s just difficult to see the new person that she’s become. Again, this all seems really petty and not that serious compared to some other things on this thread (I’m sorry!), but I just needed to rant.

You could say that the structure of this book is Storm-lite.

An added thought: This book definitely felt like Sanderson still had some "Stormlight writing" in him with the additions of the interludes and the drawings. If this is a constant thing going forward, I am ALL ABORD. The interludes aren't anything special, but they definitely helped flesh out Ironsides, and while the drawings are simple, they add so much in terms of cinematic value! It makes me feel like I'm getting the most bang for my buck.

I'm pretty busy right now, but if I have time, I am going to make a kind of ghetto spray paint stenciled version of this shirt. The tagline was inspired by an incredibly funny comment by @RShara that Mr. T is a plant by Cultivation: The back of the shirt will have to wait until I have more time to get my silk screen up and running (spoilered below): So if you see someone with a giant spray painted T on their shirt at the signing, it'lll most likely be me.

So the Sibling on Roshar is the collective spirit of all dead siblings in Sanderson's work?

Full Spoilers for both Defending Elysium and Skyward!

I should have done that... I asked if there were affects of being born, concieved, or raised in the cognitive realm. He said that there is, but they may not be easily recognizable. I meant to ask what the affects were... Still, got something new!

For now indeed.

I discovered you can change to the direction you write in. אף פעם היה יותר קל לעשות את זה. This is officially my favorite technological feature. Now punctuation can wind up on the wrong side when I type in English.

I don't think they're the one in question, but @sithmeacaf, @armandooble, and @rebekah79 are ad bot accounts you could spike experiment on.

I haven't got any advice that hasn't already been said, but *hugs* for everyone.

LAAAAAAADRIAN! Why don't you caaaaarry on with what you're doooooing, 'Cause there's aaaaalways... Annnnd now that song will be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. @Ladrian

Last week, I talked about how my car broke down. Today the mechanic got back to me. It's not just one thing that's blown and needs replacing. The entire piece of crem is ruined. Now I'm going through the car buying process, and it's been a load on my plate. Add that to me being a full time student and working and it's just been a week.

*hugs @Ashspren and @Inklingspren* I don't have much advice, but hugs can be good.

when I was at a signing, saw this giant pile of Legion, and I thought "if books could talk..."

Evening Edition 3 The Elendel Daily Newsworthy Content for Every Octant! The 25th of Doxil, 68, Evening Price 2 Clips Tekiel Appeal Begins in Disarray Shocking scenes inside the courthouse today, where House Tekiel's appeal against the findings of an independent inquiry into their business practices began this morning. House Tekiel was charged with negligent business practices a few days ago, as an inquiry found unsafe and in many cases questionably legal working practices, as well as the abuse of loopholes in regulations intended to keep factory staff safe. They were given a fine, but Lord Tekiel utilised their right to appeal the findings, delaying the fine and possibly resulting in an overturn of the fine and inquiry results, if House Tekiel is found to be correct. The appeal began this morning, with representatives of House Tekiel and the Tekiel workers in the hearing. Lord Tekiel was not present, and could not be reached for official comment, though many close to him report that he has been incensed by his workers and their new 'union'. A man wearing an old Mistcloak burst into the courtroom where the hearing was being held, claiming that he was The Survivor come again to the world, and that he would 'cast down the nobility and distribute their ill-gotten gains to the general public'. When officials attempted to apprehend the man, one of the appeal panel declared that they knew the man in question, and named him as one 'Camon Tonnestor', a carriage driver, amateur dramatic, and historical reenactment enthusiast. The man was led away from the scene and arrested, but ultimately released after a few hours. When asked why he did this, Mr Tonnestor stated that 'I'd always wanted to do something like that. Like The Survivor woulda done. Denouncing all the nobles like the Tekiels and their getting rich off the working peoples' labour.' A Tekiel representative, Louik Tekiel, gave a statement outside of the courtroom, where he condemned Mr Tonnestor's actions, and stated that when court resumed, they would be raising a complaint that the man had unfairly prejudiced the appeal panel against his House, and that he would be pressing the Constabulary to arrest the man for his actions. This complaint was dismissed by the panel, as they stated 'Mr Tonnestor's actions are an exaggeration and were clearly not intended to be taken seriously'. Louik Tekiel responded to this with strong and colourful language, which let to him being found in contempt and ordered to excuse himself from the appeal. When Master Tekiel refused, he further accused the panel of accepting bribes from 'skaa malcontents', and made several remarks about their heritage. This roused much of the room into a fury, and it was only with the hastily-sanctioned use of Soothers within the courtroom that a riot was averted. The appeals panel has requested that everyone forget the sorry event ever happened, and has ordered Louik Tekiel to remove himself from the appeal process permanently, and send a more suited individual to represent his House. House Tekiel has stated that, since this outburst, Louik Tekiel has had his part of any inheritance transferred to a more suitable heir. The appeal is still ongoing. Garrik Urbain Commercial Advertisements Previous Editions Other Headlines This Evening Night 3 has begun! It will end at 7PM GMT on Saturday. Day 3 however will not begin until 7PM on Sunday, as I am out all of Saturday and Monday, so this conviniently lets the Day cycle fall around Monday and avoids Saturday. No-one was lynched! Avi/Elandera is Influential during next Day. The number of Tineyes alive >0, so PMs are allowed. please stop them at rollover tomorrow, though. That is, 24 hours from this post. I've been asked if I will allow Actions for periods when people know they aren't going to be around. I'm very hesitant to do this, as I don't like the idea of it giving a false impression of activity/inactivity, but I have decided I will allow it once per person. Assassinate Votes Praise Votes Total Influence Player List

Just saving this thread from vanishing forever.

My bad, thanks!

The aviar!

Marsh and Dalinar :" I'm sad about his death. But i was even more sad when he got with the girl we both liked" Zane " I know how that feels"

Episode Two: Dumpster Diving

Could Cusicesh just be the spren of the sea? And the faces are the people who have drowned in the sea that day? The sea isn't as important as the storms, stone, or the land to Rosharans, and sailing is less common, so the spren of the sea wouldn't be as powerful as the other three super-spren.

My major issue with this theory is that Axies appeared to know very little about the spren when we first meet him in Kasitor. If Dai- Gonarthis directly or indirectly led to the "destruction" of Aimia (“destruction,” in quotes because the Kaza Interlude in Oathbringer hints that Aimia might not be as destroyed as the reader was initially led to believe) and is now known as (ironically) Cusicesh, the Protector, then it seems our Aimian spren-expert's thoughts would have touched upon that, if even just briefly. Aimia wasn’t “destroyed” until after the Final Desolation, and we know from Axies and Arclo's comments that Aimians are very long-lived (I believe WoB is that they are “basically immortal”); Arclo even claims to be alive before the Last Desolation. Therefore, at least Arclo would have likely been around when Dai Gonarthis “destroyed” Aimia, and would likely be aware if the “destroyer” of Aimia had -devolved? diminished? - into what was now commonly known as “Cusicesh, The Protector.” And if at least some Aimians were aware that this large spren in Kasitor Bay was the current form of the “destroyer” of Aimia, wouldn’t it be likely that an Aimian who “made it his life’s work to observe, catalogue, and study every single type of spren in Roshar” like Axies would be aware of this? Instead, Axies thoughts reflect someone who is reviewing an academic curiosity: (Both quotes from WoK, I-5, Axies the Collector) In my opinion, Axies almost complete unfamiliarity with Cusicesh makes it unlikely that this spren is the current form of Dai Gonarthis, or any Unmade for that matter.

This is the image in my head of Chaos dealing with those who post Oathbringer spoilers. But in all seriousness thanks for all the hard work you do keeping the board spoiler free!

"I'm not dead!" - Kelsier "There's a difference between mostly dead and all dead" - Brandon Sanderson "You keep using that word dead. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Every Sanderfan ever

This is me with Animal Planet. "Apparently, chull populations are decreasing..." "Those are hermit crabs." "Whatever."