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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.

Hello! Longtime lurker here who finally decided to get an account. I've read all of the Cosmere books, and most of Brandon's other books. I'm considered the Cosmere expert among my friends--who introduced me to Brandon's books. Most of that knowledge comes from obsessively lurking on here. I don't know how much I'll post, but I've finally gotten an account.

So, I think part of the Shadesmar stuff, is that Sanderson both probably had his own "parallel dimension that's like Tolkien to the power of Alice-in-Wonderland" thing going on in his head, plus he picked up on the dreamworld-Ways-weird tower-etc. stuff in WoT, so he's really building up Shadesmar/the Cognitive Realm to be a predominant landscape in SOME Cosmere-saga settings. This is quasi-confirmed to the extent that a Silverlight story is in the works. However, I was thinking: the Shards probably corresponded to crystal-like graphs of Spiritual information, in the Cognitive Realm, and so the place where Adonalsium was Shattered was probably IN the Cognitive Realm. Now, Ruin is attuned to destruction, [edit] especially by the overall time period in which he refers to Vax. I'm not saying Vax would be the place in Shadesmar where Adonalsium was Shattered (destroyed). Maybe, but the references we've seen to it are pretty "throwaway" for what would otherwise apparently be a place of immense significance. So instead, I think Vax was a place in the Cognitive Realm that was particularly affected destructively by the Shattering, at least [this would include the site of the Shattering, presumably, without requiring itself to be the same]. This is why Ruin/Ati is confused: by the time he sees Scadrial's Shadesmar subset, it reminds him of another place of great "Ruin" in Shadesmar, a place he saw affected in the Cognitive Realm, during/because of the Shattering of Adonalsium.

What have you read so far? Also Hello and welcome

I can only imagine how awful that would be. If by some miracle we get 9 more people to sign up in the next few days, I'll make sure neither of you are in the first round. Speaking of which, we still have 9 slots open! Come one, come all!

Speaking on improvements that could be made to character stuff, what do y'all think about a thread to establish a character voice and find a reliable way to RP weaknesses before actually introducing them into the wider AV?

Or just increase their strength to the point where the gravity field could not hurt them too much.

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.

Nice! I switched from animal science actually. I found that AS would deal with domestic/livestock more, and I wanted to work with exotic and wildlife.

could you please explain further? As seen in BoM, Fullborns can access Mist burning levels of power as well.

Yep! Words of Radiance twice and Way of Kings three times. I actually used WoK in my english class in my junior year of high school. Teacher said we had to annotate a book. I decided to make her life miserable and use WoK. She was so mad at me. I turned it in a week early. She was fuming. Showed it to her other classes like "someone did this. I have to grade it now. Look. There's no annotation gaps. None. She read the entire thing and annotated it. Now I have to grade it." There was a page count cap the next time we got to pick a book.

I was actually just working on a shard quadrants theory a couple of days ago. I think the divine attributes model is probably correct, but with a tweak. I think the Shard intents that don't fit the classical divine attributes are actually part of a split one. Odium is what "Wrath" turns into separated from any Honor, Wisdom, or Love type aspect. Ambition is part of 'Creation', the drive to create greater things, probably the natural pair to an Inspiration Shard. Cultivation is I think another part of Creation. The rest are fairly straightforward: Devotion = Love Dominion = Kingship Endowment = Generosity, possibly even Grace Autonomy = 'Self-existence' (the "uncaused Cause", not relying on any other entity) Honor includes Justice, and also (given his bonds emphasis) the concept of 'covenant' Preservation and Ruin are I think drawn from some forms of Hinduism: Vishnu (Preserver) and Shiva (Destroyer) as aspects of Brahman (the Absolute). The Creator aspect seems to be missing, however. - If we apply the quadrant model, I think the quadrants would be something like (hypothetical ones in italics): "Supreme Being" - Dominion/Autonomy, Eternity/??? "Creator" - Endowment/Cultivation, Ambition/Inspiration "Judge" - Devotion/Odium, Honor/Discernment or Wisdom "Overseeing the Universe?" (need better quadrant name) - Preservation/Ruin. Restoration or Redemption/???* *I have a feeling that this ought to be a shard that represents change that is neither necessarily entropic (as Ruin) nor growth (as Cultivation), but a reversal of what is established - the concept of "the last shall be first". I have no idea what the name would be though.

I just searched through the site and couldn’t find any other threads talking about this game, so I don’t know how many people even know about it. So if you don’t know about it, a couple years ago Brandon mentioned that they were developing a board game based on and around the war on the Shattered Plains. He even gave out a bunch of promotional Szeth cards/standees with some cryptic game stats on the back alongside the release of Words of Radiance. Supposedly the game was supposed to go to kickstarter sometime in 2018, but that got bumped back. Then today, this troubling news was posted on boardgamegeek.com: I went ahead and sent an email to [email protected] to ask about this. We’ll see what they say. To anyone else interested in this game, I’d encourage you to send them a polite email as well- who knows, maybe if we show them enough support they might revive the game!

Remember, fullborns can tap and compound speed, so a fight between a fullborn and anyone would look somthing like this:

If only that were the case for all of us.

It depends on how it’s used. Severe amnesia is often used as a crutch to get around having a deep character with a well thought out background. Anyone who attempts to use it in that way I will heavily encourage to add more depth to their character.

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>

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.

Love the poetry! Thanks!

Tapping your chest can refer to yourself.

BoS’sSs mind rejected the love. It wanted to destroy it.

There was no response. Her cheeks were already blistering, along with her forearms. But the neck and hands were the worst of it. 3rd degree burns exposed tissue and bone in some areas. Blood had dried up, so there wasn’t much of a puddle.

Overall: I was very confused. I agree with the others that this is a much better leading chapter and it makes me wonder why the prologue/chapter 1 is first. This is so similar it causes confusion, and if the prologue information is important later, would it be better placed closer to where it becomes vital? As I go: I am very confused by this opening. Wasn't the hydra dead? Where's the crossbow? Is this even the same book? I have tech whiplash. What happened to the potions? Has there been a major time-jump? I can't tell what the first chapter has to do with literally anything in this chapter. I'm so confused. What is going on? Why do I care about enhancement batteries when I was reading about channel potions just a couple page ago? What does this R-person look like? Does she have skin? Hair? Eyes? Clothing besides glasses and gloves? Why do I care about her? She doesn't seem anything like the person I was introduced to in the first chapter, and I don't care for her very much right now, since the only emotion she has shown is mild contempt for people who appear to be doing nothing wrong. I think I'm going to imagine her as a nude talking hamster with gloves and high-tech sunglasses from now on. I will always care about talking ham-hams. I am unclear why professors on a dig would be wearing inappropriate clothing, but I have now decided they are chinchillas, since I lack any other description to tell me otherwise. Poor things, they really can't handle the heat, but they look so adorable in their button-up shirts. Also I am unclear why the interns seem to be doing the important digging. Maybe they're crows, and very smart. I am lacking so much description, so much context. Is it daytime? Nighttime? I don't remember. Why only one guard? This knight's description feels like it was lifted verbatim from the first chapter and it is confusing me. Is this a first chapter rewrite? What is going on? The knight is described better and in more detail than any of the other characters so far. Is he the protagonist? He's apparently the only human so far and he really shouldn't be picking on ham-hams like that. Multiple pages in and she's finally put on a shirt. I've decided her fur color must be butterscotch, because it's my favorite, and would look good with the green. I still don't understand why they're using Greek gods in modern vernacular epithets. It sounds stilted and awkward to me and drops me out of the story whenever they do. And I'm afraid I'm not terribly interested in this fight. I'm unclear why they're having it, and I never got invested in R to care about danger to her. I don't understand why the knight is there -- if it's to duel, then why didn't he just say so? This seems like a world where dueling would be an accepted thing. If he came to talk to R's charges, why is he dressed like a recognizable outlaw and sneaking around? Wouldn't it make more sense to just dress in regular clothes and walk up to the dig like a normal person would? The same goes for simply talking R-the-guard-ham-ham. Is there a reason for them to be fighting at all? I know more about R's sword and the knight's multiple weapons than I do about her. Are the weapons characters? Why is the knight talking to R as if she were in charge of anything? She wouldn't be the ones calling the shots as a mere guard, famous or not (is she famous or just in possession of a nickname? I can't tell). I'm afraid I have no idea what the knight's plan is and why he's hiring a ham-ham to go scare some people somewhere maybe? Ham-hams are inherently adorable. This is a more interesting world and starting scenario than the first chapter, and I would be more likely to keep reading this one than I would have on the first one. This has good bones, but I just have no idea what's going on.

This is a bit off-topic, but I just realized I recognize the people in that meme now! That's Captain America and Iron Man! *is proud of self* *should probably not be proud of that*

I am a stick.

“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.

Ohhhhhhhhh yeeeeeeaaaahhhhh. Keep Cukoo is the good life!!

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

The Lord Ruler can compound steel for superspeed and pewter for superstrength. Those two abilities alone make it a pretty one sided fight, unless Szeth has access to unlimited stormlight. Even then, peter mentioned that completely crushing a radiant's head will negate their healing and result in death. So LR for the win (Fullborn are op).

Lopen @Straw unvote yourself now!!! There is a random death every cycle after someone gets lynched!! I've just gone through entire thread and it's absolutely a pattern!!