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Stick is the non-fire of Ages.

Hi guys! I returned a few days ago but decided to type one of these up because it seems like the community has changed a lot since I was last here! I was originally on the Shard in 2015. I used to go by LarkoftheRiver. Anyway. I'm Sarah -- you can call me that, Kestrel, or Kes. I will also respond to Lark, River, or Riv. Really it doesn't matter too much. I'm a junior in college, and I'm majoring in Natural Resource Management with a concentration on wildlife biology. I'm outside a lot; I'm a licensed falconer in addition to having volunteered at four rehab and education centers for wildlife. I've worked around most native Texas birds of prey, and am slowly starting to work around mammals. In addition to that I am also a member of my college's polo club. Which is basically soccer on a horse. It's fun! In my freetime I'm also a freelance artist, and an active member of several art roleplaying groups on deviantart. I sometimes animate as well, and have had work featured in film festivals around the United States. I mostly focus on animals. For Sanderson related stuff: my favorite book is Mistborn (specifically AoL era), and my overall fav character is Kelsier. I've read most of the released Cosmere novels (still need to finish Oathbringer). To my knowledge at least. When I got my falconry permit, I fell out of reading for two years, so I'm sure some other Cosmere stuff was released in that time. I still need to read the short stories as well. In any case, I look forward to getting back in this community and getting to know you guys better!

Me: study for your math final tomorrow Also me: gotta sketch

IMPORTANT: Hi! If you’re hoping to join or rejoin us, please do so in our current thread! Well, everyone knows I can't go a day without creating a roleplay. This one stems from random cremposting on a status update (take that, Firerust), wherein I said something vaguely mysterious, Lunamor said it sounded like a prophecy and wrote the first line, and I, er, went crazy writing a prophecy? So. Yeah. (I hope this doesn't flop, I had fun making it all ) The Augury: As you may have guessed, the tentative plan for this RP is that it will have ten parts or 'verses', each named after and corresponding to a verse in the Augury - Ten of the Void, Hate's Creation, Fight the Rise, Oblivion, Storm's Break, Time Will Out, Until You Betray, All That Shatters, Watch Them Fall, and Powers Reviled (not necessarily in that order, names subject to change). I do have plans, but there's plenty of room for improvisation...and both could have really cool implications. Anyway, rules are as normal for roleplays on here, please do ask me if you have any questions! Both roleplay and chat will take place on this thread (until a new one is started), so please put all non-RP in quote boxes. WORLDBUILDING: Preferred character profile: I'll happily give more information on almost anything worldbuilding-wise if you ask, though I can't give away much in the terms of plot. HAVE FUN! Characters:

"What is the most important title a book can have?" Hoid asked the Sleepless and the kandra. "Hmm," RePaan tried to surmise, "a title where the words are equivalent to the First Oath?" "The True Name of Adonalsium?" the Sleepless wondered. "No," Hoid said, shaking his head. "That question itself is the most important title a book can have. It refers to what would be the most important title, so it must itself be that title. Don't you see? It's like the word 'heterological,' or the group of all groups that don't belong to themselves, or a sentence that claims to be a lie. These are the paradoxes upon which the cosmere is built up and broken down, you understand. These are the noodles and broth on which I live."

Here's a little something I wrote to explore Dalinar's first attempts Summary (Possible Oathbringer Spoilers): (Open this spoiler to see fic):

I was thinking that knowing everyone's drafting process might help me when reading and providing feedback. Mine's pretty straight forward but overly time consuming. 1. Outline Draft - Extensive bullet point outline listing every important story and character scene in the story. 2. Rough Draft - Using 1.0 as a loose guideline, pants out about 100k words in as little time as possible even though you should be taking your time. Get further and further away from the outline until the entire draft is deus ex machina and plot devices to fill in the holes you dug yourself into. --- Throw 2.0 into a trash folder and never look at it again. 3. Character and Structure Draft (this is the one I'm submitting) - Rewrite the book from the beginning but try to make it halfway readable this time. Now having done it completely wrong, return to a revised outline. Still hate it but acknowledge the fact that it is significantly better than 2.0 so you might as well keep going. 4. Five Senses Draft - Add in all the details you were too lazy to put in 3.0. Turn excess tell into show. 5. Polish - Make the words all pretty and such. Dialogue actually needs dialogue tags. Adverbs are not always your friend. Sprinkle in some foreshadowing so it looks like you knew what you were doing from the beginning. What's yours?

You'll get there. Keep going!!

Tom knelt down and poured the serum down her throat. Then he jumped up and took a few steps backwards. The serum awoke. First, it thought, burns. A red glow began to emanate from within Heather's fallen form. Slowly but surely, her burns began to heal, flesh spreading together. Oh! it thought, as it felt something oppose it. What's this? Gently but firmly, it pushed on the whatever-it-was that was resisting it. The charred skin began to evaporate in trails of smoke as the healing accelerated. Next, it thought, loss. It touched Heather's soul with a comforting embrace, healing her grief and putting her mind to rest. She would still miss those she had lost, but acceptance would put her soul at peace. Finally, it thought, guilt. Cautiously, the serum opened up the memories of failure and confronted the poor soul. This part was outside of its control- it could try to provide assistance, but the ultimate result was up to the patient's subconscious. They would either accept the responsibility and the guilt, in which case the serum would soothe the pain away; or they would reject it, and he would be forced to leave it unhealed. At last, after each memory had been confronted, the serum released her mind. She had been rather disappointing, to be honest, rejecting far more mistakes than she accepted, but in other areas she had healed wonderfully. The serum didn't have a mouth, but if it did, it would have smiled in satisfaction.

Rayse is The Villain of Ages

PREACH IT!!!

Dalinar is the Unity of Ages Lift is the Awesomeness of Ages Sadeas is the Eel of Ages

Shallan is the Illustrator of Ages. Kaladin is the Sadness of Ages. Adolin is the Handsome of Ages. Ruin was the Ruin of Ages. Hoid is the Mystery of Ages.

How about the Scadrian Planetarium, a place where people can try their best screwing with a planet's astronomy, pushing it around and stuff like that. If you succeed harming only the southern cultures, you get a plush TenSoon! If you mess it up, you get punched by someone dressed as Kelsier.

“… but one.” Attayl saw the shadow over Nerin’s eyes when she obviously remembered, and she looked down, stared at the cakes herself. But one. They all had their one, she guessed. The one person that overpowered you, that overstepped borders, that was in control. She swallowed, grabbed another cake and took a bite herself. Nerin’s mother had been a whore, just like her own. 1st Octant, whereas hers had worked in the 7th. Nerin was who she could have ended up, had she spoken about her alomancy, had she been brave enough to take control over her life. It was like a mirror, they were two sides of one coin. “I think that’s a good idea.” She replied and got to her feet. Go back to the parlor. See if Brillin had woken up, try to find out where Lance had gone. See if they could get some information about the harbor. John, that crazy one who claimed to be from a different world. Probably a drug addicted of some sorts. She took another cake, enjoyed the sweet taste. Brillin. She would have to talk to him, later. She looked at Nerin sitting there at the table. It was the first time, she had opened up, she had really talked to her. Attayl looked outside, slowly “Thank you.” She gently squeezed her hand again. There were no other words necessary. Nerin knew, that she understood. Attayl carefully covered the remaining cakes, folded a napkin in a form that indicated a thank you and they walked back to the parlor. “If you ever need to get out of everything again – Jo now knows your face. And nobody there will ask a question.” They walked through the streets in silence and Attayl decided on a slightly longer way back, which would give her the opportunity to walk over the marketplace. There was a shop that sold tea and maybe a good cup of tea would help Nerin as well. She walked by the little store, knew what she wanted and where the owner usually placed it. Without really looking she grabbed to packages. A good herbal tea for Nerin and a one that helped to soothe you stomach for Brillin. Judging his earlier drunkenness, he would need it. She never changed their speed, but made sure to take some turns, so that they would be out of reach before the owner realized what was gone. He was easy to steal from, but then most thieves weren’t interested in tea. Grinning slightly she handed the package to Nerin once they’d stepped into the parlor. “It’s one of my favourites. You should give it a try.” @ZincAboutIt

"You want me to play notes and rhythms and dynamics? What do you think I am, a musician?" -my friend, while trying to practice audition music

Honestly the Big Bad of the Cosmere is probably Bavadin.

I just realized that the title of each of Brandon's Stormlight books is named after a book relevant in the story. Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer.

so for some time i have been working on a homebrew supplement for introducing spen in D&D (even if they are more like elementals) i have most of it hammered out and got the ok for most of the artists but i wanted a final feedback from anyone here that knows anything about Dungeons and Dragons before i upload it to the dms guild , plus sharders could be interested the link can be found here shoutout to the amazing artists (botanica xu and Pam Hage) and the shard affiliated D&D discord server for their help any criticism and suggestions are more than welcome and everyone seeing it is free to download it adn use it if you'd like

Kaladin tried to talk him down several times prior to that. He told Moash he wanted him gone so that when they arrested the traitors he would not go down too. Moash disobeyed orders. I honestly think Moash was the one who was putting greater strain on their relationship (which is largely why I hate him so much). Sure but he does not know that Roshone manipulated the king. From his account Moash seems to think the king was just doing Roshone a favor.

Except a fullborn could fill an ironmind to essentially get rid of almost all his/her weight. Except a Fullborn like the lord ruler has been compounding for a thousand years. as seen in BoM, a fullborn's metalminds have the power equivalent to mist-burning. I doubt that the surge of division even fueled directly by a shard would be enough to reduce a Fullborn to nothing. Even if it did have an effect, compounded health could take care of any damage. I don't think that we really know enough to say that soulcasting even directly fueled by honor would be enough to soulcast something like the bands of mourning.

Again, at the end of the day, if something doesn't work for you, then that's ok, it happens. Everyone's got their opinion. Now having said that, Dalinar defends Elhokar to anyone. Even Elhokar's own mother. Before the climatic moment, Dalinar talks to Kaladin about Roshone remember? Kaladin asks him about it, and Dalinar explains the situation. That is the moment that Kaladin thinks back to to realize Elhokar is Dalinar's Tien. That for me is enough. Re-read the scene where Dalinar and Kaladin talk about it. If after re-reading that scene, it still doesn't work for you, then to each their own. So the scene is Words of Radiance page 815. The order of events are Dalinar made it to the other side, and is talking to Kaladin. The carpenter on the other side calls to Dalinar. Dalinar begins to walk back while Kaladin remains. Dalinar passes Adolin and Shallan. Dalinar continues to walk when Kaladin realizes he recognizes the carpenter. Kaladin begins running. Adolin notices Kaladin running and he spins around and begins running too while searching for whatever danger Kaladin spotted. His father is the target of Sadeas, so it would make sense for him to run towards Dalinar. Shallan is at the center of the bridge when Kaladin passes her which means he is about half way. The carpenter then grabs the lever. Kaladin yells to Adolin that it is the carpenter. Meanwhile Dalinar gets distracted by the horns that sounded that the enemy was spotted. At that point Adolin reached Dalinar (Adolin is in his shardplate, so he would be moving faster). Then the bridge lurches and collapses. That sequence of events works for me. If it doesn't for you, to each their own.

This one is the easiest. Adolin is a soldier. In hostile situations like the war taking an action is often more important then taking the right action. Doing something, anything is often smarter then waiting around so you can figure out what is going on. Kaladin knows that Dalinar's relationship with his nephew is important. Dalinar keeps going out of his way to make his nephew safe. He deduces why because he knows about Gavilar's assassination and because he also failed to protect his brother. Knowing this he figures out that to Dalinar Elhokar is a chance at redemption. None of this takes more information then Kaladin has.

Dalinar is the Unity of Ages Lift is the Awesomeness of Ages Sadeas is the Eel of Ages Jasnah is the BA of Ages Moash is the **** of Ages

Well, yes. Things like poisoning somebody's drink. Though yes, the evidence on that is meagre. I am afraid I need to point out that the Stormfather, who is closest to a remainder of Honor, favored destroying a rebellious conquered city. Put himself under Kaladin's command. Hence Moash asked for permission and got it. If somebody broke his word there, it was Kaladin.

I think it depends on where you go to college. BYU, for example, is probably much better about that kind of stuff. Dixie state, however, has a 100% acceptance rate, meaning that they literally let in anyone.

This is a separate thing from the Call to Adventure expansion. Do you have a better source on that? Look at the date of your quote- that was 2016. Brandon started taking about the Stormlight game around the end of 2017, which is also when the BGG page went up for it. The BGG listing gave the game a 2018 release date. ... oh actually, while searching through the Arcanum I found This, which doesn’t sound anything like the Stormlight war game, so you’re probably right: Anyway, back to this game, I also found this: Also, I got a reply to the email I sent to Mayday games: Not very informative, but at least we have official confirmation that the game is off the table.

You don't need to kill someone to win a fight. Just stake him to the ground, leach out his stormlight and start a research team on how to kill this guy.

If only that were the case for all of us.

Aylitha blinked. "Found you..." She whispered, and started smiling. The bugs she had left with Mac started vibrating their wings. "Found him," they said. "They're at some abandoned factory. Lots of monsters around the place, though most are pretty stupid. They're planning to wait until the storm hits the Vortex. As for their location..." She paused, trying to remember where he was, then told Mac the location. "Tell me if you need anything else," she said. "I'll tell you if I find anything, but I need a nap. Controlling this many bugs is difficult when I can't use my main intellect." She scooted over to the nearest wall, and sat down against it. Moss started growing under her body, creating a cushion, and tentacles wrapped around her body, serving as both a cocoon and a blanket. @MacThorstenson

He writes faster than I read.

Cool! I was wondering about the avatar pic. (page 1) - Umm, okay I'm a bit confused. We've got a live hydra now. I'll go with it and see how it's explained. Not sure it's immediately clear that we're in a different POV. - You say historians, but sounds like they are archeologists or, yes, paleo... - I like the specificity of the lens, that sort of detail puts me in the story. - "plateus" - plateaux - "a view that went on for miles" - this kind of disproves the 'nary a...' comment. There must be lots of open space, surely. - The hydra's behaviour struck me as odd. Not so much that it was put off but the light flashing in its eyes, but that it reacts the way it does to what is a fairly subtle stimulus, like it is fairly intelligent. And yet it's treated like an animal, but it can go 'hmph'? Confused: it comes over sentient and intelligent. (page 2) - What's the battery thing, what does it enhance? Confusion; the bad kind. - "it wasn’t often clients were willing to feed her" - this actually seems really unusual. (page 3) - What on earth is that super affected language she's using? Ah, I see. Good, I'm glad he didn't fall for that one. - "Son of a...!" - I really think you need to show the pause, the empty space with something, either ellipsis, like this, or a dash of some sort, not just have an incomplete sentence. - "would’ve definitely done her in" - grammar, ugh. - RL - any relation to Robert Langdon? - "eat science" - lol, good line. (page 4) - "just been sitting atop of" - nope, the point of using 'atop' is that 'of' becomes redundant. - "paleontologists shouting in confusion" - I'm confused by how far away they are now. I'm not sure they's be able to see this. She's got goggles, but not sure they do. - "but it wasn’t fast enough to numb each wound" - this feels inconsistent, since it was said that the wounds healed faster than they happened. - "It was her last Enhancement battery" - I like that 'magic' has a cost, has limitations, BUT, this is a completely different system from the drinking of potions in the first submission. It confusing, I think. We haven't had the first magic system established yet, and now we have a second one. - "pulled her own out" - her own what? Not at all clear. (page 5) - "He pointed his own..." - His own what? What on earth is going on? I have no idea. - "a typical gesture of challenge" - Really? - "she’d strapped beneath her shirt to her stomach" - grammar: clause order, readability, flow, smoothness, etc. - "falling a good ten feet" - why? - "recover a bit of stamina" - I would say her stamina is long gone, I think it is to do with instant energy at this point. I would say stamina is built up over hours. (page 6) - There's a lot of fighting now, which I'm not all the invested in, although, to credit it, it's at least interspersed with banter, which improves the situation. I just don't know how much I care about the outcome of this fight, because I know very little about R. (page 7) - There's no way this guy is still wearing his hat, and yet he's flicking at the feather? He just fell ten feet and landed on his chull (I think). - "Hah!" - Ooh, boy. This is going towards flat out comedy, but the quit dodging is a good line, so let's call it 'uneven' and leave it at that. - "we'll happily vacate" - really? Huh. - "Ha!" - I wish she'd stop doing that. It makes me think The Princess Bride or Three Amigos, which in turn makes me wish I was reading / watching one of those. (page 8) - "come and do some work for me" - if this fight turns out to be pointless and totally avoidable I will not be happy. - "There were twelve Channels" - The next four lines are pretty much unintelligible. You've not set up the world at all, so the Olympian thing distracts me, wondering what that is. I think it's the first mention of gods(?), first mention of patron beasts (I'm more confident of that). Have we heard about dragons before? Not sure we have. - Why is her conclusion 'premature'? She can't know this. She might be right. I would drop this word. - "slashing it horizontally to regain space" - don't understand this (page 9) - "stepping a good way’s back" - Nope. The narrative is not consistent. There is plenty of narrative that does not adopt the western tone, so you can't just drop in some when you feel like it. The narrative needs to be consistent, and for the love of G don't have it in that western vernacular, a little of that stuff goes a loooooong way. - "Enhancement batteries" - this is good, this is a strong moment because it was foreshadowed. This is probably the strongest moment of the fight. - "glowy lights" - lol (page 10) - "one of his knives were was missing" - I've been trying not to comment on grammar because I just don't have time, but really, I can't let this go. - "there was a brand- new battery installed" - okay, I like that: that's sneaky and again, foreshadowed. - I don't understand T's big, rambling treatise on... something. It's all over the place. (page 11) - You tell me how to feel about the M/Hs, but you don't tell me what they are. Who runs them? Are they the hand of an overbearing authority? Are the evil raiders? What are they? I need context, how they fit into the world. - Now you're telling me about the W/V, it's shallow. T says that the papers say that R is formidable. I want to see that, not be told it. She was not particularly awesome in the fight, so I'm not feeling it. - 'W/V was two people' - now that's interesting. (page 12) - Confused. I don't think it's clearly explained that the M/H are after R. With people speaking in a rambling way, it's harder to get a proper understanding of what they are saying. - "flat, morose gaze he was now using seemed to pierce through her" - Imprecise phrasing like this is just a big fat turn off. Don't be vague, be definite, be precise. Does it pierce her or not. If she's not sure, how am I supposed to be? Search your novel for 'seemed', 'might', 'maybe', 'perhaps', 'possibly' and DELETE THEM ALL!! - It's not been explained what a clipper is. Don't know, so I just ignore those references. - "She had no problem with killing people, so long as they deserved it." - Again, you are TELLING me she's badass. - "You could have stopped them" - I don't believe this for a single nanosecond. - The Registry has not been explained. I don't know what it is. Overall I'm willing to set aside any disbelief at the cultural mash-up, but I'm frustrated at all the telling that's going on. The arc of the chapters has been pretty similar. Also, what was the point of the first chapter if R is the M/C protagonist? I don't think the character building is up to scratch. I don't feel anything for R. She casually says killing bad people is okay. I'm going to say it, that's lazy characterisation. True involvement and interest comes from the shades of grey that challenge characters. There are a lot of things that are not explained, that's another turn-off. I see this again and again and again on here, novels that try to spill out the entire plot in the first two or three chapters, and that cannot wait to hop from POV to POV to POV. IMO, it's essential to establish reader engagement with a (main) character before launching into a lot of plot detail that I am not going to care about, because I don't care about anybody in the story, yet. Establishing character is not easy, it's not a cursory physical description, it's not a big lump of telling us someone is mean and formidable (yawn). I listened to an excellent Empire podcast (UK movie magazine) yesterday which had an interview with Eddie Marsan (excellent British character actor: Lestrade in Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes). He said that "characters have to be paradoxical, have to have conflicting elements to make them real". That struck a real chord with me, and helped to underline me feelings about character: character is everything, without character (in a story) you have nothing. And conflict does not mean fighting, it's personal and/or internal conflict. I experience the story through the writer's characters, if I'm not invested in them, not amount of plot, setting or action is going to interest me. Sorry, you've caught me in full rant mode, but I feel like I've read so much recently where character is lacking (critted novel in my IRL group, listening to critique podcast, etc.). <R>

Okay, so you may be better off googling this one. A quick search for "producers surplus" seemed promising. However, the first step is to find the market equilibrium, which is the value of x where supply = demand. Using the equations you are given, we would get 169 - x^2 = x^2 + 10x +141. You can reduce this to a quadratic equation: 2x^2 + 10x - 28 = 0 --> 2(x + 7)(x - 2) = 0. Since x can't be negative, the market equilibrium is at x = 2. Using either the supply or demand equations, we can find the price to be $165. Producer surplus is the area between the supply curve (p = x^2 + 10x + 141) and the constant price line at equilibrium (p = 165). To find the area between curves, we evaluate an integral of the difference between then two: The bounds of the integral are 0, since selling less than 0 units doesn't make sense, and 2, since that is where the market equilibrium happens.

So This RP actually gives me a good opportunity to write a character that's been languishing in my mind for a while: a blind double tin Twinborn.

Lol, well if there is anything this thread taught me, it is how much stuff Oathbringer answers lol. So guess what? There are scenes in oathbringer that delve further in the Elhokar and Dalinar relationship that could cause you to draw more parallels between Dalinar/Elhokar and Kaladin/Tien, including something very very big they both share, but I won't spoil. Hmmm, just so after you read Oathbringer you will know what I am referring to, I will spoiler tag that as well Oathbringer spoilers Personally makes sense to me. Kaladin, the guard of Dalinar notices a threat and runs towards it. Adolin son of Dalinar, notices the guard noticing a threat, and given his father has a giant bullseye on his father's head, runs to his father assuming he is the target (which he was). Assassination attempt revealed too soon results in bungled attempt that not only takes out Kaladin and Shallan, but a whole bunch of officers and retainers that were also on the bridge. So it was not purely Shallan and Kaladin that fell. They were just the only two to survive (thanks to ole stormlight). But that is my own opinion. If it doesn't sit right with you, then I respect your view.

Well, thank you guys (and gals)! After @Pathfinder's 3-fold urge to read OB, I feel the need to get up-to-date with at least tSA, not to mention other series, before asking more questions. Because about half of what I asked here can be explained by reading more books. So let's put those 9 kind-of-objective questions aside, and I'm going to ask you for your opinion. This 1 is subjective. 10. Do you feel at some times the plot is forced? Examples: A. When Kaladin used "Elhokar is Dalinar's Tien" for his reasoning. There's not much in common between his love for brother and Dal-El relation. His was mutual, unconditional, and beneficial in that he protected Tien and the brother cheered him up. I doubt Elhokar loved his uncle; and Dalinar was only fond of him because the king reminded him of truly loved bro; and the relationship is a bit oppressive, so can't be really productive. B. When Adolin saw Kal running to the bridge from the corner of his eyes and right away ran up to his father. Really, I can't point my finger to an exact spot, but the whole scene does not make sense. A very distinct feeling that it's forced so that Kaladin ended up with Shallan down there.

Tapping your chest can refer to yourself.

Presumably, any indirect Shard-to-mortal communication (or whatever Hoid qualifies as - though Endowment dismisses him as "merely a man", that's not exactly true...) would be replied to in the same way as it was received. So Frost's reply, plus the three Shardic replies, may offer some insight into the medium of delivery. Endowment: "I received your communication, of course. I noticed its arrival immediately, just as I noticed your many intrusions into my land." Autonomy: "... You have spoken to one who cannot respond. We, instead, will take your communication to us - though we know not how you located us upon this world." Harmony: "Your letter is most intriguing, even revalatory. .. I can be surprised. I can perhaps even be naive, I think. ... If you would speak to me further, I request open honesty. Return to my lands, approach my servants, and I will see what I can do for your quest." And Frost's reply includes: "I'll address this letter to my "old friend," ... Now, look what you've made me say." (While Frost is not a Shard, it seems reasonable that Hoid may have used a similar means of cross-world communication with him.) What might this tell us? Frost and Harmony refer to sending or receiving a "letter", while Endowment and Autonomy refer to a "communication", and Autonomy specifies it as a "spoken" one (the reply could easily have been, "you have written to one who cannot respond"). "Letter" technically implies a written communication, but it doesn't have to be, and Hoid's own letter to Frost called itself a "missive". Harmony replies, "if you would speak to me further", not "if you would write to me further", or "if we were to continue our correspondence". Frost uses a very colloquial offhand remark after insulting Hoid, "Now, look what you've made me say", which seems very oral to me, being a little bit too stream-of-consciousness to be something one would write on a piece of paper. Not entirely impossible, but it is suggestive. Suggestive of what? Of some kind of dictation or recording based communication, rather than an actual written-on-a-page type of letter. There is a formal composition and preparation of thoughts, to put into a single transmission (it's not like an "instant text message" type of back-and-forth reply), but still has room for ad-hoc or last minute interjections and musings, like Harmony's very Sazed-style "humble-hedging" comment, "I can be surprised. I can perhaps even be naive, I think." Someone writing a letter and editing it before sending it would almost certainly not put the redundantly hedging type words "perhaps" and "I think" there, it's a kind of verbal tic. Furthermore, Endowment implies noticing the agent's "arrival" in the same way that she notices Hoid "intruding" into Nalthis - meaning it worldhopped in via the same path that Hoid himself has been using, and Harmony demands "open honesty" in a direct discussion with Hoid, implying this first communication was via a go-between. So my wild, wild theory: the letters are a kind of Lightweaving type magic that can be tied to a living or maybe Cognitive Realm based agent, which upon receipt can do a "help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're our only hope" type of playback, and perhaps includes a of mechanism for taking back a reply in the same way (like a SASE of old).

The Heralds whenever they come back for a Desolation:

“Are you...St-Star’s author? Are you g-going to snap my neck too? A-al-also, what’s an author? I keep hearing that word.” Butt backs up visibly quivering. Such an adorable stutter.

I'll do you one better: Why is Kelsier?

I'll do you one better: Who is Kelsier?

Tears filled Tom's eyes. "I would never hurt you. I could never..." Quickly, he remembered something. He stuck the key into her chest and turned in the opposite direction. There. Now she was safe.

@hoiditthroughthegrapevine and I (with help from @The One Who Connects) actually had a very... let's say spirited.. discussion on this. You can find it on the "Fullborn v Surgebinders" link in my signature. He came up with some over the top, crazily creative attack vectors for the Surgebinder to use (we used a Dysian Amian with all 10 Honorblades), but there was always a counter for the Fullborn. Especially once you start factoring in the Era 2 Metals. Fullborn is just wayyyy too powerful F-Zinc is probably the most underrated power in the Cosmere Spoilers of OB and Era 2 Mistborn