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After re-reading WoK, and WoR, I have come to the conclusion that the Stormlight Archive books could be very interesting, entertaining, and compelling if the major pov's were reversed. If the main protagonists were the Parshendi instead of the humans, I'm convinced that Sanderson's books would still be just as great for me. What do y'all think? Considering the thousands of years of history of Roshar, the roles of the 3 shards on that planet, I truly believe that Sanderson has created series of books in which it's very difficult to say which side of the war is the "right side" to cheer to victory.

I think it would be equally good written from their point of view, too. For me it's easy to see which side I wouldn't want to be on, I feel like everyone is part of a long and terrible game of Odium's. Some humans have started to figure it out, I think. And when enough Singers figure it out, if they can because their access to information is so heavily controlled and manipulated, there will be an impressive level of righteous outrage. The good thing about Sanderson is that, if that day comes, no matter who's side it's viewed from, it won't be as simple as, oh let's join forces against our common enemy. As we see so often, people are never that simple, and Brandon knows this. Some will. Some won't. And it's between those ends of that spectrum that things will get interesting. I'm excited for this next book. I don't think anything like that is coming yet, but we're going to have a lot more nonhuman perspectives in general in this book, and possibly more in the future, from what I understand. So crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

Day 1: A Coolidge Conspiracy LG64 has started! A few changes have been made, so find the final ruleset here. (The OP will be updated to match shortly, but isn’t yet.) Of note: The Crystal Knight win condition is to be the only faction with living non-captured players. The Rogue Smedry's win condition is to be the last living non-captured player. The Crystal Knights cannot convert the Smedry. Players have one action per turn, which they can use on a role action or to create a PM by submitting an order to the GM. In general, role actions are night actions. The Silimatic Engineer role has been reduced to four different kinds of glass, for simplicity's sake. GM PMs should be out within the next five minutes. Player-player PMs will take slightly longer. Day 1 has begun and will end in 48 hours, at 6pm PDT on April 1. Remember that you may submit an action to PM another player during the day, which the GM will create at the start of Night 1. Please do not create any PMs with other players yourself. Player List Experience - Shard Straw - Straw Kidpen - Arthur Smedry A Joe in the Bush - Porona Candemic Coda - ? Striker - ? Kynedath - Bartholomew Prescot Elandera - Rainier Zillah - ? xinoehp512 - ? Ironfire - Liability Sart - ? Elkanah - Karen Fifth Scholar - Sergey Karjakin, Russian ambassador and secret adviser to the Secretary of Defense The God King - ? Shqueeves - ?

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Hello guys! Unfortunately, I'm not a long-time fan of Brandon's works like most of you, but for sure I'm lucky to experience them for the first time. My friend recommended me to read the Stormlight Archive since foreeever. When I eventually get started, I knew it was worth it! It's wondrous. A bit about me - I'm from Poland and I love both reading and worldbuilding. I have a little project on my own. That was also crucial why I finally reached for Sanderson - the richness of his projects and his mind. So that's my hello, have a nice week!

I recently came across this WoB, and as I am currently studying linguistics, I decided to see what insights into the history of Roshar could be gained by analyzing the language families present. First off, I would love to see Brandon's wiki someday, though it doesn't seem likely at least until he finishes writing everything he has planned for the Cosmere. Comparing the modern Roshar map and the Silver Kingdoms Epoch map, we can see that the following silver kingdoms adopted which languages: Vorin: Rishir, Valhav, Alethela, Natanatan, Thalath Makabaki: Makabakam Iri: Iri, Sela Tales Aimian: Aimia Dawnate: Shin Kak Nish, Valhav (Horneater Peaks) Makabaki is very straightforward. All humans in that part of the world started in one place with one language. Evidently, the Makabaki people did not extensively travel to or trade with other regions of the world in early history, since their language family is confined to that silver kingdom. The population grew, and they started to spread. As they grew farther apart, communications between the various regions decreased, and eventually the dialects became distinct languages. Basic evolution of language. I would be interested to know which languages in this region are not of Makabaki descent, since Brandon did say "most" of the languages split off that. Iri is spoken in a part of the world where we have seen very little so far, so this is particularly insightful. The fact that Reshi is part of this language family is especially telling. There must have been extensive sea travel between Iri and the Reshi Isles in early post-Recreance. Whether the Iri people still travel the seas and the Reshi Isles as extensively as they once did is unknown, but I would venture to say that at one point in history at least, Iri and Riran sailors and ships would have rivaled and probably beat the Thaylens. I had trouble placing Tu Bayla, since we don't know a lot about it and it doesn't seem to quite fit regionally with any of the others. It does border the Purelake, which suggested it could be in the Iri family, but that wasn't enough for me. The short words in front of names (TU Bayla, RU Parat - see the map) seemed similar to a few different things. First off, Tu Fallia, a region separated from Tu Bayla by a mountain range. The exact same word, Tu, seems to suggest a similar background, but I think this may be coincidental. Geographically, there is not much reason to suggest a connection between the two. The closest I came to finding a connection between the two is the silver kingdom Valhav. Valhav almost contained both Tu Bayla and Tu Fallia, but Tu Fallia is just outside its borders, inside Makabakam. I found other linguistic similarities in Jah Keved and the Purelake. For one thing, the word Jah - a short word included at the start of the nation's name. Similarly, the titles that signify the birth order of sons in Veden culture: NAN Balat, TET Wikim, ASHA Jushu. In the Purelake, the gods NU Ralik and VUN Makak, as well as their villages FU Abra, FU Namir, FU Albast, and FU Moorin. My conclusion - those prefixes are a remnant of the Silver Kingdom Valhav, manifested in the various languages of those places. Valhav included Tu Bayla, much of Jah Keved, and bordered the Purelake and Tu Fallia. So what language is spoken in Tu Bayla? Most likely something from the Iri family, with remnants of the ancient language of Valhav. Aimian is a tricky one. Some people use it as evidence that Aimians are not native to Roshar, and that could very well be true, but I don't think there is enough linguistic evidence to prove that. Brandon's wording is a better hint than the languages themselves. It makes sense that the island nation would have a separate language family of its own. Vorin is an odd case. Geographically, it occupies the largest area by far, with much less variation than would be expected. Thaylen is obviously more distantly related since it is an island nation. There is no evidence that Jah Keved hasn't been one nation for thousands of years, so it is feasible that Jah Keved could be united under one language, with regional dialects of course. My main questions concerning the Vorin languages are about Kharbranthian and Alethi. Kharbranthian is "basically a dialect," but a dialect of which Vorin language? I think we can quickly rule out Herdazian and Bav purely on a geographical basis. Though Kharbranth is located in the Frostlands, what anciently was Natanatan, I think it is unlikely that Kharbranthian is a dialect of Natan. If Kharbranthian is still "basically a dialect," then it split off of another language fairly recently, and since Natan is close to dead, it doesn't seem to fit. Thaylen seems like the obvious choice, since it is geographically close, but there is a glaring problem with that. To quote Shallan, Shallan cannot speak Thaylen, yet she was capable of speaking with people in Kharbranth just fine. That leaves Veden or Alethi. (Shallan doesn't say so to Jasnah, but I assume she can speak Veden. After all, she does say your native Alethi, which implies that it is not Shallan's native language.) Since Kharbranth is geographically closer to Jah Keved than Alethkar, I would guess that Kharbranthian is a dialect of Veden, but that is just an educated guess. Alethkar was divided into different warring princedoms for much of its history. Logically, each princedom would have developed its own language, yet we see that they all share the Alethi language. My theory about why this is is that when Sadees, the Sunmaker, united Alethkar, he established the language of his princedom as the official language of Alethkar. Not enough time passed between his conquest and Gavilar's for the language to change more than developing different dialects. As for the Dawnate languages, these are descended from the dawnchant. These are mostly isolated groups of people (Shin, Horneaters, parshendi), and they must have been isolated since ancient times. Of course the parshendi language is descended from the ancient singers' language. The Horneaters must have been isolated in the Horneater Peaks since around the time of or even before the Recreance, I would guess. The truly surprising language in this category is Shin. Shinovar was the original home given to the humans when they came to Roshar. I would have expected they would have brought their own language, not adopted a dawnchant-based language. I don't know why Shin is dawnchant-based; I would love to hear ideas about this in the comments.

No lunch. It’s ten in the morning, for goodness’ sake! Also, I’m about to sleep and can’t be bothered right now, but I’d like to remind everyone that there are rules about encoding messages that can be found in General Rules. Please make sure you’re not breaking them.

*sigh* That’s what I get for updating the rules on mobile. Fixed, thanks.

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I think this is a really good point. The world of Stormlight is so well thought out and complex. We’re still going to be finding new things decades after the series is over. I think Rhythm of War is going to be the most diverse book in the series so far, because we’re getting perspectives from people that are on opposing sides, going mad, even dead. I can’t wait to see how Brandon handles it!

So with Venli and Eshonai flashbacks we will actually get their perspective on events in the upcoming Rhythm of War. I personally think that reading from the perspective of a generally doomed people would be super depressing. (Although if told with Rlain as the main character you really could do something. Oh great now I have started to outline the book...). It is a testament to Brandon's writing that the books would work validly from either perspective.

I totally agree with you buddy

The thing that makes Atium an "I Win" card is its ability to give a person the knowledge to kill their opponents with one strike. But as long as a Radiant has Stormlight there is nothing a Mistborn can bring to the table that will kill the autoheal Radiant that way. Also Atium loses some effectiveness at distance, as anything flying becomes fixed in the timestream. But a Mistborn could pepper a Radiant with coins and win at a distance by forcing them to use up more and more Stormlight. Unless it's an Elsecaller/ Lightweaver who can instantly magic up a wall for defense. Or a Willshaper who can just step into the CR where the Mistborn cannot possibly follow. Anyway, to use Atium most effectively with fewer factors to futz up the magic, one must employ it at close range. And that's the problem. Most Radiants 3rd Ideal or better will be able to shrug off all but the most grievous of wounds and still be effective in a fight. They aren't going to survive a beheading but anything short of that type of wound heals nearly instantly and unconsciously (said Radiant doesn't have to activate the healing, healing happens without effort). A Mistborn with Atium and a decent size weapon could maybe manage to incapacitate or even kill the Radiant, although the outcome is nowhere near certain. But give that Radiant Shardplate and that close range becomes a death sentence. Why? Because for all a Mistborn's awesome power they are almost pure offense. They have no defense against a Shardblade, no way to block one seeking their spine. And they cannot breach a Shardplate defense from anywhere other than up close.

It was a lie. Our gods lied. Oh, how they lied. The Quarantine comes. I hear its whispers, see its boredom, know its bored Hoc erat odiosis

You're certainly not alone in feeling that way! Look here: @The Traveller would agree with you too

Sel had two Shards of Adonalsium: Devotion and Dominion, like Roshar has Honor, Cultivation and Odium, and Scadrial has Preservation and Ruin. Devotion (Aona) and Dominion (Skai) were killed by Odium long ago, their power was Splintered and stuffed into the Cognitive Realm, forming the Dor. Seons are Splinters of Devotion, like how Honorspren are Splinters of Honor and the Divine Breath of the Returned are Splinters of Endowment. To be more specific, the Aons at the centre of the Seons are Splinters of Devotion.

We don't know much about Hoid. He's from Yolen. He knew the Vessels of the Shards of Adonalsium and was involved in the plot to kill Adonalsium alongside them. He has a form of immortality, as well as time dilation, and various pre-Shattering magic including a form of Lightweaving. He has access to Fortune, he can tell if he's going to be needed somewhere sometime. He goes around traveling the various Shardworlds, collecting magics. Hoid isn't his real name. He has many names like Cephandrius, Topaz, Lunu'anaki, Midius, etc You might want to check out his Coppermind page here: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Hoid

Speaking of potatoes...

I started reading TFE in 2015, but stopped because of computer issues. I started again in 2017, and got to the middle of WoA, but I didn't understand what kind of brilliance was going to happen so I didn't have the patience to finish it. In 2018 I started the trilogy again, and this time saw it through because I'd been most of the way through WoA and someone told me I'd appreciate what came next. At the time I was dealing with the debilitating effects of multiple mental illnesses which left me heavily dissociated for long stretches of time, and resulted in unpredictable emotions, cryptic motivations and long stretches where it seemed like my actions were under the control of forces far bigger than me. I had felt so small for years, so silent, and when I finished HoA I knew that not only was I going to follow Sanderson but that he had changed my life and I felt certain he was going to do it again. It wasn't some lightbulb moment. Books never usually get to me because of that. They always depict you getting control back as an aha moment where you snap your fingers and everything is OK, not the terribly draining process that it really is, when you expend incredible amounts of energy just to gain inches that you might lose at the drop of a hat. I never thought I could come out the other side. My life was full of, "This will never change," or, "Just snap out of it," and had been since early childhood. It seemed like after that, I started seeing things in the world that validated the fact that it really is incredibly difficult sometimes, and that just because the progress you fight for disappears doesn't mean you'll never find a way to get it back. Stormlight just reinforced that. I think now that it was only a matter of time, that something would have done it eventually. Someone told me when I was sixteen, when I mentioned facilities that relatives used to threaten me with, that I wouldn't settle for it. I would get out or die trying. I would not stand for captivity. I couldn't see what they'd seen in me then, but I see it now. In a way, he was my way back to the world. Those things aren't gone. The reality of my situation hasn't changed. But I have a different way of looking at and reacting to it, and that started there. I'll always be a patchwork creature, but it isn't all that I am. If I ever saw him I would thank him for depicting people who found that out, rather than just magically realizing it meaninglessly as many authors have depicted. I describe his books, well the Cosmere as that's what I've read so far, as fantasy written by someone who knows how to pay attention.

I don't know if this has ever been tried before, but this is an attempt by me to make the shortest thread ever... Once upon a time, in a non-Cosmere world, there was woman with absolutely no investiture who chose not to take over the Universe.

I started this idea whilst mowing the lawn. Therefore, I will give my ideas on how the ten orders of the Knights Radiant would mow the lawn. Windrunners: Fly around being edgy and yelling stuff like: "I CLAIM THIS LAWN". Skybreakers: Go on a Crusade. Mow the lawn like a regular person. Dustbringers: Burn down the whole lawn. Edgedancers: Slide around the lawn and cut it down. Truthwatchers: Look into the future and see someone else mowing the lawn. . Tell said person to mow the lawn. Lightweavers: Make the lawn look like it was mowed. Elsecallers: Soulcast the top parts of the miniature sticks blades of grass into fire smoke. Willshapers: Make the lawn into liquid grass. Stonewards: I honestly don't know on this one. Bondsmiths: UNITE THEM! As in, the pieces to the lawnmower. Now I pass the torch to you people to think of how the ten orders would do other everyday things. -J

Friends, Sharders, BoredBois, lend me your time. I come to praise Boredom, not to bury it The fun that men have lives after them; The fun is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Boredom. The bored @I Am A Fish Hath told you Boredom was bored: If it were so, it was a boring fault, And boringly hath Boredom answer’d it. Here, under leave of @I Am A Fish and the rest– For @I Am A Fish is a bored fish; So are they all, all bored men– Come I to speak in Boredom’s monologue. Yep, I literally copied a Shakespearean monologue onto here, then put my name in here... He was my friend, bored and boring to me: And you wonder why I'm bored? But @I Am A Fish says he was ambitious; And @I Am A Fishis a bored fish. He hath brought many BoredBois to this thread Whose boredness did the general coffee fulfill: Did this in Boredom seem bored? When that the bored have cried, Boredom hath been bored: Boredness should be made of sterner stuff: Go find our origins Yet @I Am A Fish says he was bored; And @I Am A Fish is a bored fish. You all did see that on the 17th Shard I thrice presented him a bored award, Which he did thrice refuse because he was bored: was this boredness? Yet @I Am A Fish says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is a bored fish. I speak not to disprove what @I Am A Fish spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did tolerate him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to be bored for him? O Boredness! thou art fled to BoredBois, And men have lost their boredness. Bear with me; My boredness is bored here with Boredom, And I must be bored till Boredom stops be boring. Hello that must have been quite boring. Well if you're bored, join the BoredBois. The Shard's first guild dedicated to boredom. We go around the Shard being bored, and reveling in boredom, feel free to have long boring posts. To join swear the 6 ideals of Boredomness: 1. I will share in others boredom 2. I will chill with my fellow BoredBois during Borantine 3. I will be bored for those who can't be bored themselves 4. I will glory in the many memes of the Universe 6. I will end every post with Hoc erat odiosis Hoc erat odiosis

well, the entire concept of evil is just a human construct that can be interpreted by the person themselves. So, I can prove you wrong in quite a simple way: by my definition, he isn't by his definition though, he probably is which is in fact one thing in his favor, that at least he realizes the actions he are taking are wrong, even if they're for a cause

We don't actually know much but the three bondsmiths each bond one. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Order_of_Bondsmiths#Theories_and_Speculation

The difference between Vin's fight with the Inquisition and Kaladin's versus Amaram and the Fused was that Kaladin had to both fight all his foes and protect a defenseless Dalinar at the same time. Vin just had to stay alive until she ascends. Kaladin, even 3rd Oath Kaladin, is a super formidable foe, and I expect him to get much better. That being said, if we're talking Vin pre-ascension vs. 5 Oath Kaladin, I'd put my money on Vin figuring out a Radiant weakness and exploiting the advantage at just the right time. She doesn't think Atium is an automatic I Win card and she has an intuitive sense of her powers. Plus she's much more ruthless. Kaladin can get squeamish in the moment, Vin won't until after the fight ends. However, neither Kal or Vin is the baseline for their respective power sets, both are exceptional. So for our baseline we could choose Shan Elarial vs. Teft boosted to 5 Oath territory. Shan isn't beating a Radiant of the 5th Oath and most likely wouldn't be able to best a 3 Oath guy no more than 3 times out of 10. And that's with Atium. Without it she's toast.

Eve hesitated even longer than Alask. Survival instinct protested walking towards likely doom. To walk towards the looming being. Walk over to talk to him. The protector of the place they were going to pull a heist on. Nothing that could go wrong there. Good. Her sarcasm was returning. At least on this level of despair she knew she could move. Shoving her trembling hands in her pockets, she walked hastily to catch up to Lena and Alask. Or ran. She slowed to a brisk walk to keep up once she reached them. She swallowed. "Are you sure that's a good idea, Lena?" Thankfully, it didn't come out as a squeak. It wasn't confidence-inspiring though, either. Get yourself together, Tacet-Yin-Dove. she reprimanded herself. You'll all be fine. Not until a few moments later did Eve notice that shift in perspective. All. Eve bit her lip. Her carefully constructed shell had almost completely withered away. She knew she should've been frightened at the thought. But she wasn't. And that was what frightened her. Along with the Space Marine.

This is what I believe, and it still stands, with the addition of the Elsecallers, who could win every battle as long as they have enough Stormlight to get to the Cognitive.

Sanderson is a Bend-alloy misting confirmed.

To add to this, we don't know which one he was offered but it's one that we didn't know about as of the beginning of 2015. The only two that we've had confirmed since that WOB are Autonomy and Ambition, which makes it rather more likely than not that the Shard he was offered is one of the six that we haven't seen. Ambition/Uli Da doesn't sound like a last-minute swap (per Edgli, she seemed to get exactly the Shard that fit her) and I don't see Hoid and Autonomy fitting all that well. There's also room to argue whether or not Brandon had 'shown' us those Shards since we'd already gotten Shadows for Silence (and thus seen a bit of Ambition's influence) and Brandon had told us about Taldain and Bavadin even if we didn't know the name of her Shard. So it's a reasonably safe bet Hoid's offered Shard is one of the Secretive Six.

Y'all are thinking too old for nearly everyone. Shallan is 17. Kaladin is around 20. Adolin is around that same age. Dalinar is early 50's at the oldest. Sadeas would be about the same age as Dalinar. We need very young actors for Shallan, Kaladin, Adolin and Renarin.

Taravangian largely avoids the contempt of Moash because he is deeply critical of his own actions. He also has good reason to believe that humanity is doomed unless he takes the actions that he is told to.

Welcome to the Shard! Yeah, the worldbuilding is very rich in The Stormlight Archive! Say, which Order of the Knights Radiant is your favourite? And is it the same Order that you think you would've been in?

What creatures take Shardblade hits? They don't show the Radiants in battle at all. Also, the see through part of Plate is described as not purely transparent, that the slits are still necessary for proper vision Without Stormlight they only have their Blade, dangerous but as we have seen in the books, not unstoppable by any means Yomen never even tried to stop Elend personally. Yes, it isn't an instant win card but it's damnation near close to one. Kaladin being a nigh impossibly skilled at fighting might be able to overcome it but most Radiants wouldn't be able to Also, Radiants don't move faster and especially not more accurately. Stormlight doesn't give them better dexterity like Pewter does, and other than Edgedancers they don't show any ground speed faster than Pewter gives.

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The unspoken assumption behind that is that Shinovar never suffered a language shift. This need not be true. For all we know it may have been occupied by Singers, who imposed their language at one period. The history of Roshar is long. Secondly the assumption that Ashyn was linguistically uniform at the time of the exodus is questionable. In fact if they ruined their world in a war, the possibility that they spoke multiple languages looks more plausible to me.

In an ideal conversation, the chances will already be there!

Try and awkwardly shove cosmere words into ordinary conversations to see if you get a reaction. “So I’m really invested in this book series right now.” “I’ll put this food in the fridge for its preservation.” “That fire really burns bright, doesn’t it? It must be because of all those sticks.” “I wonder when this storm will pass. We have no power so we have to use candles for light.” “It’s great to see them showing such devotion to each other.” “Colours! ...are so pretty, aren’t they?” “Oh, rust! My bike is ruined by all this rust!” “Remember to get your correct iron intake so you’re strong enough to pull stuff around.” I have no idea how you would naturally integrate some of those into a conversation, but oh well.

People aren't terrible beings. People aren't evil at heart. People deserve a better rep. People are great. People are wonderful. There is good in the world. - A spontaneous dose of optimistic thinking by Silva's brain

Pretty cool and detailed take. All of this gets only gets weirder considering the names of the Heralds, and the concept of symmetry, because that symmetry has been intrinsically tied to the way people use words and how they write them. How and from where did that veneration to symmetry come about? It's not present in the Singer names - Eshonai, Venli, Rlain are modern and don't seem to have been affected, but Leshvi, Moash, Vyre, etc. aren't either. That makes it seem that the veneration to symmetry isn't native to Roshar, because some Herald names are very symmetric - Kalak, Shalash. Pailiah even has the "h" substitution. Others are only some way symmetric - Vedel, Chanarach, Battar, to an extent even Talenel. And then yet others are completely non-symmetric - Jezrein, Nale, Ishar. This starts getting weirder once you include the Unmade. Dalinar, Renarin, Amaram, Adolin, and the moon Mishim all seem to share roots with Ba-Ado-Mishram, Yelig-nar and Re-Shephir. Shalash possibly shares a root with Ashertmarn. But then you have the Kai-Garnis : Dai-Gonarthis similarity, and a possible Moash : Chemoarish (Moshe means son in Hebrew, and Chemoarish is known as the Dustmother) connection, and the interplay just gets deeper.

That was fascinating! Sanderson's talked about certain changes before, such as cutting Spensa and Jorgen's romance plot. I hope Jorgen still lives to see the end of the series! It'd be terrible if Sanderson used this outline as a meta-twist, having those of use who read it feel safe since the outline has clearly changed, only for Sanderson to pull the rug under us. Having humans be the Krell in a way would have been interesting, if not a tad predictable. I"m curious how that would play out in Starsight then. Would humans have been secondary citizens, banned from the military due to their violent nature? Could Spensa have simply snuck onto the titular city? Either way, this was fun to see, although I do think I prefer the annotations instead...

@Quantus This is a super old one... But with metal being Scadrials focus, I really don't believe it's possible for a metal to only be viable in one system over the others... If it has an effect in one Metallic Art, I think it will in the others as well... With a caveat. Just because you have an effect doesn't mean that that effect is accessible. For example the infamous shardblade WoB. If the problem is not having a tie to the Investiture, that doesn't mean that the metal doesn't have an effect. For example, say a non-scadrian burns lerasium and becomes Mistborn... They have a Connection to Preservation obviously, but might not to Ruin... So can they burn atium? So Trellium is something we've seen used for spikes and so far that's all... And currently, I don't think Trell has Invested in Scadrial to a point to create the tie necessary in people to allow them to use it for allomancy or feruchemy. So functionally, yes, I think that most godmetals will be Hemalurgically viable in ways the others aren't, because unlike them, Hemalurgy requires no Spiritual component on the part of the user. Just knowledge, Intent, and the proper metal. Mechanically though, I think that if a metal is viable in kne its viable in all, though additional hoops may be necessary to allow access to all systems.

HHHmmmm. I kinda want this to become the longest thread ever just for the irony.

REPLACING A BULB Windrunner is crying. He wasn't able to protect the bulb. Skybreaker turns off electricity. It has killed the bulb. Dustbringer is the person who has destroyed the bulb. Edgedancer doesn't have heart to replace old loved bulb. He keeps it and comforts it. Truthwatcher says that he saw the tragedy before and claims "We are all death without the bulb". Lightweaver pretends that the bulb is OK and makes illusion around it. Elsecaller makes better bulb and claims that this new one will be unbreakable. Dustbringer accepts the challenge. Willshaper buys christmas lights and uses them instead. Stoneward still doesn't move. Bondsmith repairs the bulb along with the world.

And Stoneward doesn't move. Not at all. He is just standing there eating chouta.

Signature change with announcement! as it says, I will not be here next week! why? My band has the honor of marching in the 2016 Tournament of Roses parade! This is a huge deal for us and we're leaving tomorrow to spend the week in Cali! With that being said, we're totally booked with time so I'll most likely be limiting free time when I have internet to Flight Rising. I may or may not stop by here. Look for me on TV! I'm still not comfortable telling what school I go to but trust me, you'll know us when you see us.

When you get on an airplane and ask the person next to you if they have read Sanderson. I mean, you got several hours, you can either geek out with them the entire time or finally explain enough in one sitting to fully convert them.

Nope, not at all. There's still Anglicans, Episcopalians, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Mormons, and probably others that I'm not thinking of at the moment. "Christian" is better, if there isn't room for all the different denominations.

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, truth less of Shinovar, wore white on the night he was to kill the king.

You know you're a sanderfan when you believe that his books and these forums are the only thing that are getting you through high school