Jump to content

Leaderboard

Popular Content

Showing most liked content on 02/09/19 in all areas

  1. Huh, you can’t really tell it’s Elhokar without the context, cuz he’s lacking characteristic features here... But I’ve painted it with another scene from OB in mind, the one in Kholinar when Shallan draws him (chapter 74 again!).
    6 likes
  2. Moving today! It's just to another apartment 5 minutes away, but still…. *screams into the void*
    6 likes
  3. From The Rythm of the Lost: Humans did at one point know, and they did harvest singers. This is where the incredible anger and outrage comes from, that the listeners show when Kaladin wears listener corpse armor. They usually don't even touch their own dead. What's really crazy though is that regular parshmen also show aggression when their dead are touched. It's one of the few things that make the Slaveform singers angry, and they are allowed to take care of their own dead. Isn't that odd? The listeners have their oral histories and thousands of years of tradition, but even the parshmen know not to let anyone else touch their dead.
    5 likes
  4. Slowly, members of the travelling crew began to assemble in the centre of camp. When a sufficient number of them had arrived, one of them lifted themselves up on top of an overturned cauldron, using it as a pedestal. "There are traitors in our midst. We need to stop them." There was a smattering of applause. "To this end, we need to turn out the first of these traitors - Dietrich Drake!" The crowd looked at each other, slightly confused. "Who? Why?" "What's the point?" "How do we know you aren't the traitor?" "Are any of you interested in participating in an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting?" The crowd began to debate amongst themselves. "You must be the traitor!" "No, you are!" "What about him? He has a particularly traitorous face, wouldn't you say?" "Meetings are at six o'clock, for anyone interested. Feel free to come along." The man on the cauldron looked around. "Everyone! We must present a united front in order to stop these traitors! If we can not do that, we may as well return to our tents." There was a brief pause. Then people returned to their tents. However, a few people had a different plan. This person handing out "Alcoholics Anonymous" leaflets seemed strangely unconcerned about the traitors. Perhaps they would show up to this meeting after all... D didn't decide his domestically endowed designation. D did despise his domestically endowed designation. D didn't desire Domestic dependency. D Desired deliverance from domestic duties, discharge from dull day to day grinds, and to be emancipated from dad and other juridical guardians.During the second of Doxil, D Did the duty, signed the declaration, and ended dependency on his juridical guardians. D now lived Independently. D was dismissed from residency in the domicile of his departed juridical guradians. D didn't have a trade, and didn't derive dollars doing daily doings. D found different directions to derive dollars. D undertook peddling prohibited drugs. Additionally, D started doing drugs. D did his darndest and decieved many detectives and disregarded dicated decrees.D detected that D was in a dilemma. D couldn't deceive detectives directly nowadays. D had entangled himself redundantly. D developed a different deception. D feigned his death and disguised his identity. D changed his domestic designation to an endogeneous designation.D was now named Fourth Letir, an individually established designation, and a different identity. D had a decision to proceed anew. D decided to do good. During the first days, D did good. D found decent directions to derive daily dollars. Disastrously, D's addictions dismally rebounded. D became a drunk, and a drug addict. D started using dark terris magicks in devilish ways. Destroying Alendi's friends and developing devious designs of destruction.D died unattended and abandoned, a desolate and deserted drunk druggie in his decrepit abode. Dedne sat on a rock, looking out over the cliff face, brooding. "What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of our mortal existence? If there is none, what is the purpose in fulfilling our journey? What is the purpose of anything in life?" Unfortunately for Dedne, the person standing behind him had no such philosophical troubles. With a quick push over the cliff face, Dedne's mortal existence was snuffed out. Droughtbringer decided to go for a walk. Behind, he heard someone shout his name, which he ignored - he had other things to be doing. He walked for several hours, mulling over his thoughts, and so was completely caught by surprise when one of his feet stepped down and splashed into water, immediately seeping into his boot. Cursing, and coming back into the present, Drought looked out, noticing for the first time the large pool of water in front of them. Well, Drought thought it was water - it was an inky black, about 20 feet across, and Drought couldn't see the bottom. Moving his foot back, he sighed. He took his boot off, and set it atop a nearby rock to dry. Then, he moved to the edge of the pool to inspect it further, until his nose was a few inches from the water. Which is when he felt a force behind him grab and force his head under the water. As the party trekked out the next day, the only sign they saw of Droughtbringer was one solitary boot, resting atop a rock. We lost two of our members today - if we continue at this rate, we will all surely perish before we make it to the pool. In many ways, we have been brought up against an impossibly Herculean task. Stop an impossibly powerful enemy, with enemies within and without. There is a part of me that fears the scholars at Khlennium may have gotten it wrong - what would be the consequences if I fail? I fear for the future of this motley crew. I fear for the future of all my people. And I fear for the people of all of Scadrial. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are a Feruchemist storing a charge this cycle, please send that in as an action, rather than just leaving it implied. I may not have made that clear before, so I will give people the benefit of the doubt this cycle. Also, a massive thanks to CadCom for his death write-up, which made me burst out laughing when he sent it to me - please go find something he posted and upvote that. Xinoehp has died. They were a roleless Alendi Loyalist. Droughtbringer has died. They were a Desperate Packman Alendi Loyalist. CadCom was lynched! They were a Bronze Feruchemist and a Desperate Packman, and a member of Kwaan's Lackeys. Vote Count: CadCom(2): Elandera, Roadwalker Elandera(2): Devotary, Fifth Scholar Roadwalker(1): CadCom Player List: Roadwalker - Honorable Dietrich DrakeItiah - De Itiah au PowerfulArk - SoahcShqueeves - {Delinquent without a name}Fifth Scholar - DuilinDroughtbringer - Droughtbringer - Desperate Packman Alendi LoyalistXinoehp - Dedne - Roleless Alendi LoyalistElandara - Declan, the DetailedDevotary - DaediCadCom - Fourth Letir - Bronze Feruchemist/Desperate Packman Kwaan's LackeyShaneRockes - Dave, the Terrible LiarSnipexe - Dr. SnipWalin - Nawl
    5 likes
  5. Well, why couldn't it be both? Why does it have to be one or the other? It can have a nice romantic reason and a cold logical reason at the same time. Insofar as I'm understanding the arguments here, I'm sure many people with Shardblades have desperately needed their Blades to come faster than the ten heartbeats and it didn't work that way. I'm sure people even at the Perpendicularity would've likely wanted their Blades coming much faster and there was no response. It sounds very likely it can be both Adolin desperately needing it and Maya recognizing that need and hurrying the process along. Also this topic has been so interesting to follow! The other book series forums don't have as much fun character discussions at all.
    4 likes
  6. “Welcome to the Salty Spittoon, how tough are ya?” “How tough am I? I once moved across town, packing my things one-handed while my furniture was moved with a screaming, barking pug straining at the other end of the leash.” “Er, right this way, ma’am. Sorry to keep you waiting.”
    4 likes
  7. @Ashspren I need an extension. A project defied comprehension. It took me 10 hours, And now my mood's sour. Without sleep, I fear vast inattention. [break away from limerick] Sorry to ask this, but could you extend the deadline by 12 hours? I had an assignment that took way too long tonight, and that was with 6 hours of preparation before today. Plus, I have work tomorrow until mid-afternoon, so I can't get pumping on my limericks until then.
    4 likes
  8. In the WoK, Hoid tells the story of a group of people who committed horrible things under the orders of a king only to discover that that king had been dead for years, and that they were responsible for their horrible actions. The dead king is discovered in the passage below: “Derethil and his men came out of the tower a short time later, carrying a desiccated corpse in fine robes and jewelry. ‘This is your emperor?’ Derethil demanded. ‘We found him in the top room, alone.’ It appeared that the man had been dead for years, but nobody had dared enter his tower. They were too frightened of him." In the final chapter Dalinar finally realizes that the Almighty hadn't been talking in response to him, that he hadn't been following orders but had been misinterpreting the visions. He then learns that the Almighty is dead. The title of this final chapter? In the Top Room.
    4 likes
  9. It's not just being romantic. We've seen Maya defend Adolin before. Yeah! I can't tell the number of times I've wanted my computer or phone to do things faster. I find it impossible to believe that no one has wanted their Shardblade to do the same.
    3 likes
  10. What Altermind's Epicsona looks like vs what he actually looks like. And no, I don't have anything better to do than make bad call-out posts for fictional villains.
    3 likes
  11. Narrator Ghanderflaffle remembered the time when there was a taco party in the Shattered Plains around 100 pages ago and is disappointed in the fact that nobody referenced "It's Raining Tacos."
    3 likes
  12. I don't think she would have the capacity to make that choice if she was not healing.
    3 likes
  13. I just wanted to point out, that on Reddit, in addition to a brief update, Brandon put out a call for a music to write the next Stormlight book to. We can contribute!
    3 likes
  14. Considering it seemed to be a choice, which implies effort, I don't think it would be a question of reversion. It should revert back to the baseline when she's not trying. But can she do it again? I think she can, but we'll have to wait and see. I don't think it's going to be a permanent change until she's more fully healed though.
    3 likes
  15. The Last Post thread was crushed so much it turned into a diamond. The sentient Longest Thread thread super-glued it to a ring and used it to propose to...
    3 likes
  16. A man didn’t know he was here. He thought he just might disappear. And his continued insistence, On his doubtful existence, Caused him to live in fear. - The man needed to do a trick. Maybe write a poem for kicks? So he wracked his brain, Amd what remained, Was a super meta limerick.
    3 likes
  17. I'm pretty certain he learned her name after summoning her in under ten beats. Considering Maya's reaction in Shadesmare when Adolin was hurt, I don't think Dalinar's perpendicularity shenanigans was the main reason. There was just too much from book one to now about how Adolin regarded his blade for me to possibly believe that there's not something more to their bond than between most other shardbearer and blade. Regardless, something is going on between them, and we can't possibly know what will be the end of it, so RAFO that.
    3 likes
  18. I'm bringing "You can be whatever you want to be" to a whole new level.
    3 likes
  19. When you do quizlet live in Spanish class and you call yourself “(name) el superviviente de hathsin”
    3 likes
  20. Aftermath: Theosis The Age of Autonomy was not, as many past histories have suggested, an era of complete and total separation between the Shardworlds and their Shards. Worldhopping was forbidden, of course. Interplanetary trade was stifled. But the memory of the Shardic Wars was deeply ingrained in the Cosmere-aware populace of the Realms, and despite Autonomy's edicts, they built structures designed specifically so that such a thing could never happen again. Of these, the Conclave of Shards was the most potent deterrent to war. The representatives of the Shardic powers met there and negotiated all throughout the Age of Autonomy and up through the beginning stages of the Final Shardic War. Transcripts and recordings of their last meetings are instructive as to the efficacy of such institutions to maintain order in the absence of cultural supports. By all accounts, the Conclave worked exactly as it had been intended to. Even in the last weeks before the war became total, even after the meetings and representatives were publicly factionalized, the Conclave members met, attempting to negotiate their way out of a war that seemed increasingly inevitable. As late as a single day before the final breakdowns, Conclave negotiators had identified ways for the factions to reconcile, and to pursue their aims in without resorting to violence. Open conversations on the Conclave floor were devoted to trying to work out plans for mutual cooperation. However, reticence on the part of several factions to reveal their true aims, paranoia that other factions would take advantage of apparent weakness, and several key communications breakdowns in the final stages of the negotiations meant that those negotations had failed to come to a conclusive agreement by the time factions made their move. As far as can be reconstructed from the historical record, the faction that called itself the Stewards of Creation moved first, utilizing the power of Endowment to Return one of the fallen agitators who had been blamed for many of the increased tensions during the leadup to war, joining a suite of other Returned who - wittingly or unwittingly - provided intelligence to the Steward's central command. In response, GLaDOS abandoned their offers to cooperate for mutually beneficial ends, and accelerated their plans to indebt members of other factions to them by staging false attacks and saving their lives, thus acquiring leverage over influential individuals. Seeing their position grow more and more precarious as the faction alliances began to fray apart, the Hidden Garden abandoned their own aims, instead throwing their weight fully behind the eviscerated remnants of the Utility Company, who had been the subject of a number of unfortunate 'incidents' and had not yet recovered. Together, they made a ploy to hold dominion over a network of Shardworlds, controlling the newly reopened trade routes from Roshar, Silverlight, and Taldain. Those plans were foiled at the last moment by the inadvertent action of players trying to remain neutral in the growing struggle. The retaliation was swift and brutal, and only the intervention of the hidden Shard of Survival saved the worldhopper Toucan from a grisly fate. Abandoned and friendless, the Joe Cloud faction could only watch as their own goals grew increasingly distant, holding the stolen Shard of Odium tight and threatening to unleash its wrath on anyone who got in their way. The tragic result, of course, is well known. - - - - - - - - - - On a small island of stability in the far reaches of the Cognitive Realm, Sheon Idris sat alone. The wreckage of the last Shardic War had reached even here. As he watched, a stray bit of Odious investiture curled itself like a wisp of smoke. The crown that he had once worn lay on the ground in front of him, broken and twisted. The woman's voice behind him startled himself out of his reverie. He half-turned out of reflex, the hint of a smile on his face. It was gone just as quickly as it had come. She hadn't come for ages and ages. Khriss stood there, a scowl on her face, and a defeated slump to her posture. He hadn't heard the exact words she'd said. The look on her face told him everything he needed to know regardless. "It's over, then?" The look she gave him could have evaporated steel. "Odium and Dominion have shattered each other on Sel. There is nothing left. Not a single Shard remains intact." Her voice began to rise in anger. "Not a single Shardworld remains untouched, and only three of them can still support life unaided. Half a trillion souls are dead, and the wellsprings of all Investiture in the entire Cosmere are gone. Are you happy now?" The venom in her voice surprised him, a little. He looked back at her with mild bemusement. "Happy? Why should I be happy? Why should anyone be happy now?" She spat at him. "Look at you, sitting there. Still meddling and pulling strings, like some grotesque spider. Well, this is what you've brought us to. Even the factions you supported are all gone. The Stewards and GLaDOS control what's left. Maybe now you'll see that, if we had just left well enough alone, things might have stayed the way they were before you took it in your head to meddle with forces beyond the power of human reckoning!" She took a breath as if to say more, then cut off when she saw his face, and the haunted look in his eyes. "You're more right than you know, of course. Completely wrong, but more right than you know." "Once upon a time, long before you were born, there was...something more. Adonalsium, we called it. God, maybe. I don't remember why, anymore, but it was important that we killed him. We, Khrissala. I was there. By the end, I opposed the others, but it was my meddling that set them on their journey in the first place. It was my fault that the Shards came to be. You think my meddling caused these? You give me too much credit. The seeds of this were sown in the Shards themselves. But without my meddling, there would never have been Shards to war against each other." "You said something right, though. The Shards are power beyond human reckoning. They shape and mold their bearers until they are something that is no longer human. They are parasites that slowly invade a consciousness until they have subsumed it, and then they follow their nature as surely as any animal. While the Shards rule, these wars are inevitable. This destruction is written into the future of Shardic rule as clearly as words on a page." Khriss bit back a bitter laugh. "And that justifies you manipulating things, egging them on? I'm sure that's a comfort to the loved ones of half a *trillion* dead souls. I’m sure that the orphaned children and the widowed spouses and the childless parents will be so comforted to hear that your warmongering was just the acceleration of an inevitable event." “Do you think that I wanted this? I tried to stop all of this.” Sheon gestured out at the devastation. “Everything I’ve ever done was in the service of peace.” “Well you’ve done a piss-poor job of it!” “Do you think I don’t know that! Do you think I can’t see it! Do you think that a day goes by that I don’t wonder if I had done something else, that all of the pain and suffering could have been averted?” They were both practically shouting now. “Well if you had left well enough alone in the first place...” Sheon cut her off. “The wars were inevitable. The Shards brought out the worst in us, our drive for power, our lust for mastery over other beings. I...” He paused for a moment. “My actions made them worse. I tried to stop them, tried to build something that could contain them. I failed. Maybe nothing I did could have prevented them.” “Then you should have recognized that to start with, and left things alone.” “How could I? I created the problem. And I have the power to fix it, if given half a chance.” “What are you talking about? How could you possibly have fixed it?” When Sheon did not respond, she turned back to look at him, and then stopped in mingled surprise and horror. Beyond him, in the distance, but somehow also so close that she could reach out and touch it, Investiture was gathering, streaming from myriad places. Fragments of Dominion raced in front of her face so close that she could almost feel it touch her. Startled, she spun to follow the glowing trails of Investiture as they swirled past. Odium, Ruin, Preservation, Dominion. All of the shards and more, coming from every world and every corner of every realm, twisting and cavorting in complicated spirals that grew more and more intricate the longer they spun. And at the center...a figure, glowing so bright that even her eyes, used to the radiance of the Shards themselves, had to turn away from. "Is that...is that?" Sheon gave her a wan smile. "It is. It's taken long enough, but it is." Shivering a little, she turned from the spectacle. "And I suppose you think that this end justifies everything?" "Of course not. But it might just redeem everything." "What?" "With Adonalsium back, humanity has another chance. A fresh start, without all-powerful but fatally flawed Shards interfering with each other and with the worlds. All of us, together, with a God who might actually deserve the name. Not just a personified force of nature that we tried to imbue with human visions of what a God ought to be, but a God put back together out of all the broken pieces." As he spoke, he began to fade. Khriss began to stammer. "Where are you going? What are you doing?" "My work is done. My crime is atoned for. I killed God once. I’ve brought God back now. But you, Khriss? Yours is just beginning. Just maybe, this time humanity can do better. And just maybe, you can be the one to make it so." And then he was gone, the twisted crown clattering to the floor from where he had held it. A single word etched into it, in letters that burned like fire. Forgiven. - - - - - - - - - - AG5: One Final Blaze of Light is finished! The Stewards of Creation have met their win condition to have Returned from 5 unique factions! GLaDOS has met their win condition to prevent players from 5 unique factions from dying! The Utility Company has failed to meet their win condition of outnumbering all other factions on three separate worlds! ALL HAIL THE JOE CLOUD has failed to meet their win condition of having their living faction mates plus all players with the Shade role outnumber all other living players! The Hidden Garden has failed to meet their win condition of fusing 5 Shards together! Hoid failed to meet his win condition of getting any faction to collect all the Shards of Adonalsium! Khriss failed to meet her win condition of inviting a member of 5 unique factions into her doc, killing Hoid, and preventing any team from winning via the Adonalsium Reborn condition! Survival has met the win condition of surviving until the end of the game!
    3 likes
  21. I just noticed a juicy detail on a reread, and I have to post it. Not finding a proper thread, I made one So, I started rereading aloy of law. In the prologue, vax and lassie are talking during a pause in the fight. Vax remarks that lassie shot a toe out of a bandit, so he had a good reason to hold a grudge. Lassie replies “You don’t need ten,” she said. Knowing now that she is a kandra, I realized that the four toes are horse's hooves, because a felllow kandra of her is impersonating a horse, and she does just fine, because the horse is fine with 4. Of course she looks kind of ridiculous, because she's a horse. And this is probably a reference to the short scene brandon wrote with horse!Melaan Post your own hidden gems. Or, if there is already a thread for it, point me there
    2 likes
  22. Horror...Check Sci-fi...Check Fantasy...Check Romance...Check Thriller...Check Mystery...Check Dystopian...Check Detective...Check Military...Check Erotica...This is probably the only one that Oregon isn't. And if there weren't rules about this sort of thing, Shiny Sparkle and some of the other more promiscuous characters might make it qualify.
    2 likes
  23. Okay this happened to me yesterday: You know you're a Sanderfan when you see the words home theater and read it as Horneater.
    2 likes
  24. because the taco’s only filling was “cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese”. (There’s your reference, @17SarcasticGhanderflaffles)
    2 likes
  25. If all it took was urgency, then every shardbearer in battle would have summoned them under the limit numerous times.
    2 likes
  26. Do you think people on the other side of the conversation ever get annoyed and leave, too? I'm sure it happens, too. Are there people who wish for it not to happen? Everyone has biases; it doesn't make the arguments any of us make inherently illogical because we have an opinion about what we want or don't want to see. Edited for extra clarity
    2 likes
  27. 2 likes
  28. Hey, guys. I think it's high time y'all know why Tena is so scared of being pregnant, and why she takes it for granted that her baby is going to die. I only wrote this because @Karnatheon brought it up in the TUBA chat, so you can thank him for that. Also, hey @Ark1002!
    2 likes
  29. But it was during the process of summoning, right? Not before Adolin started it? Well, I still think that Dalinar's Bondsmithing might've helped, but it's certainly not the only reason. Meaning: Adolin was the only Shardbearer during the battle at Thaylen City to experience something like this, because his bond with Maya already was special and different from what's considered "normal".
    2 likes
  30. Well Navani is already designing flying ships, so you're thinking along the right lines. There was a really great thread where these ships and how they would work were discussed at length, I'll see if I can find it later.
    2 likes
  31. Alright Everyone here is the character you've all been awaiting! James Myriad! On mobile will bold later.
    2 likes
  32. What was relevant was the fact that Borio Singaldi was hungry for cupcakes, bacon, pancake batter, and total victory over the "Last Post Wins" thread.
    2 likes
  33. I'm saying that with it being based on the speed of light, any difference in time frame on the world of Roshar would be minute enough to not be noticeable. As far as my consistency comment that was in regards to the 7 heartbeats during the perpendicularity, in which case all three times Adolin summoned his blade should have been at the 7 heartbeats, not just the last. I apologize for the confusion, I made an argument about how the perpendicularity was not to blame for this, and I understood your responses as saying it was a part of it. It's not quite that explicit, but here you go. Radiants hear the spren, and as Relis shows, anyone bonded to the blade when they touch it will as well. The difference is that the Radiant is not bonding the spren of that blade. The spren needs a bond to revive, in my opinion. A resonant effect with a similar type of Connection does not grant them that Connection no matter how long it's present. They need a bond of their own, which is what Adolin is providing. It's not one or the other, it's both. The level of respect and reverence with which he treats his blade before Shadesmar were seemingly unique. Then he sees her in Shadesmar, overcomes his initial reaction to her, and still treats her as not only a tool, but a friend. Yes, it is remarkably remote chances, which is exactly why it hasn't happened before, and why it's viewed as an impossibility in world.
    2 likes
  34. I finished my artwork! (You get it? The words are radiant...)
    2 likes
  35. 3 replies to get to excrement. It's probably not a record, but it's still nice.
    2 likes
  36. 2 likes
  37. Obviously please do not Sign in or post with your Anon Accounts any more. I will be going through and deleting all the PM's and changing the passwords tomorrow. Everyone who posted RP, please say so, so that I can upvote the heck out of you. I will post World Docs tomorrow, after I consolidate them. The Hidden Gardens The Utility Company The Church of the Joe Cloud The Stewards of Creation Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System Khriss's Lab Hoid's Doc Amber Vulture: Young Bard Autonomy Amethyst Scorpion: Rathmaskal Azure Mouse: Lumgol Charcoal Hyena: Mr. Mafia Ambition Chartreuse Penguin: Steeldancer Coral Swan: Jondesu Endowment Cream Tuatara: Cadmium Compounder Emerald Falcon: Dalinar Kholin Fuchsia Ostrich: Mark IV Indigo Weasel: The Young Pyromancer Ivory Dragonfly: Devotary of Spontaneity Honour Magenta Albatross: randuir Mauve Crocodile: Alvron Melon Dingo: Snipexe Mint Heron: Sart Onyx Flamingo: I Think I Am Here Preservation Opal Lion: _Stick_ Odium Oxblood Beagle: Hemalurgic Headshot Pearl Chameleon: Elandera Plum Rhinoceros: xinoehp512 Ruin Quartz Zebra: Fifth Scholar Saffron Iguana: Furamirionmind Cultivation Sage Kangaroo: Bob Earl Jones Salmon Meerkat: Amanuensis Khriss Sapphire Elephant: Droughtbringer Devotion Scarlet Octopus: Araris Valerian Sunburst Toucan: Drake Marshall Survival Taupe Gecko: Magestar Turquoise Gorilla: Shqueeves Dominion Violet Axolotl: Mailliw73 Hoid Master Action Spreadsheet Dead Doc Other Doc Sel Roshar Scadrial Taldain
    2 likes
  38. How the orders ask Brandon questions at book signings Windrunner: Asks about whether or not their favorite characters will survive Skybreaker: Points out continuity errors or things that don't make sense. Dustbringer: Asks about how division works. Edgedancer: Asks about a random minor character that everyone had forgotten about. They're a worldhopper. Truthwatcher: Already knows the answer to all the questions. Lightweaver: Asks about his opinion on a picture they drew. Elsecaller: asks a super in depth question about realmatic theory. Gets RAFOed. Willshaper: "Is Reckoners Cosemere?" Stoneward: Asks the same question as they did last time. Gets RAFOed again. Bondsmith: Asks the question that unites us all. "What can you tell me about Hoid?"
    2 likes
  39. I was thinking that in in the situation where little to no analysis exists that it is better to have more people after the first cycle to continue from that point on. But I was also saying because analysis is a thing, it is better to vote. That's why I was going to try to place a vote, by the time the cycle finishes. I'm thinking returning the vote also because it seems you are quick to accuse, but I also anti-support voting for new/recently returning players. It isn't great sportsmanship, so I will wait for now.
    1 like
  40. Hmmm, doesn't Brandon know that foreshadowing is of Odium...
    1 like
  41. I don't have a lot to add here, I think the discussion is generally at a standstill. One side believes that Adolin is well on his way, the other does not. My two cents: Edgedancer ideals 1. I will remember those who have been forgotten. I've seen this debated both ways to little effect. There is some evidence that Adolin "remembers" the forgotten, but there is also evidence he does not. Yes, Adolin helped the whore, but so many who use this example fail to remember that Kaladin was there and was trying to make his way to defend her when Adolin intervened--and arguably, it's conceivable that Adolin only intervened because it was Sadeas's man, and not because the whore was being abused. There's not enough textual evidence to confirm or deny this. We do have textual evidence that Adolin thinks of the men who died at the Tower less than either Dalinar or Kaladin--and Adolin should have been much higher in this regard because of how many he knew and interacted with personally. So I'll leave that there. 2. I will listen to those who have been ignored. There isn't really any textual evidence to support that Adolin "listens" to Maya once he "knows" she is real, aside from the fact that he uses her name instead of simply calling her "his Shardblade". In Words of Radiance, Adolin notes that he never gave the blade a name because he felt that the blade should be called by what the original Knight Radiant had called it. He learns the name--he uses it. Yet, I don't think you could call any Shardblade "forgotten", since every single Shardblade in Alethkar is accounted and has a history. But that's a little pedantic. Moving on. 2a. Renarin. I personally feel that using Renarin as a qualifying factor here is a pretty poor argument. I'd argue that, now that Renarin is a member of Bridge Four, he's found a place that not only is he remembered and listened to, but accepted and cherished in the same way that Adolin has. Also, I'd worry about Brandon's writing ability if Adolin, the "everyman" character of Stormlight, didn't stick up for his brother--doing so is a perfectly normal thing for an older brother to do, and isn't really emblematic of an outstanding and exemplary character trait. Finally, to say that Adolin must embody Edgedancer traits because he has an Edgedancer deadeye is kind of a logical fallacy. Maya did not choose Adolin--she was given to him after he won her in a duel. This means, since she didn't choose him as her Radiant, that Adolin doesn't have to embody Edgedancer ideals. There's just too much variance and plausibility for both sides to be absolutely definitive in either direction. I think @SLNC means that the very idea of reviving a dead spren is still only a theory at best. The textual evidence supporting the idea is subjective to too many different interpretations to be adequately confirmed en masse.
    1 like
  42. Dalinar, the night of Galivar's assassination. "Hey man, I'm pretty sure you can handle more wine."
    1 like
  43. Tentatively, I think that Odium's magic number is 9, based on this WoB: Oathbringer Houston Signing
    1 like
This leaderboard is set to Los Angeles/GMT-07:00
×
×
  • Create New...