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Second to last meme that I made on that fateful, boring day: You may find it funny, and you may not. I thought it was funny .

Edgedancer gone dark could be like Kelsier in his darkest parts of Mistborn. Slaughtering their way through the noble classes for the general way that the underclass is treated.

This is a short fanfic that I wrote to express a different view on the prelude to the SA. The main premise is that Taln is a Stoneward, (spoiler) he dies, and he never broke. I did assume some things, but only because we don’t know much about Taln or the Stoneward Surges. Comments appreciated! Talenelat’Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of the Almighty, Patron of the Stonewards, the Herald of War was a soldier at heart. Taln took it upon himself to train the valiant souls who fought what they labeled the ‘Voidbringers’. This last time, the fighting went terrible, but anything was worth it to give the people of Roshar more time until the next Desolation. This time would be no different. His men uttered soft curses of “Damnation” and “Storms” as they saw what they were up against. Taln chuckled, thinking Damnation is much worse than this, men. There were Thunderclasts, the Fused, and most of all, the Parshmen. They spanned the horizon, filling in the areas behind their commanders. Some of the figures in Plate shifted nervously, the amber glow emanating from where the chinks would be in regular armor. They had a few advantages with their Surges, and a few Sleepless had recently joined their number - somewhat frightening the men - but the enemy was a massive force, and Stormlight was limited. Most of them remembered the last time that they fought these creatures. Almost all of the soldiers had lost friends and family to the Last Desolation, and everyone’s faces were grim. Some of the other Orders were also there, as were some of the Stonewards, but the majority of the Order stuck around to fight where the toughest battles took place: around Taln. But they don’t have regular armor this time. Maybe it would be as bad as Damnation for some of his men. Taln trained both regular men and the Radiants whose Surges he shared as soldiers against the forces of Hatred. They weren’t the only ones fighting; the other Heralds made their own efforts, but Taln was the one who focused on the soldiers. The Orders of Radiants were a large help, but Taln felt like he needed to do more than just promote the Radiants to higher levels of radiance. He fought for the people that he came to this world with, for their children’s children, and for their sanity, their very existence. He fought for those he trained, and for the people to come. He fought so that others wouldn’t have to in the future. A Smokeform was the first of the enemy to advance, but the humans didn’t notice it until it was right up by them. It struck quickly, felling a few men before the Radiants stepped in, their Weapons forming in their hands. The Smokeform fell easily, without anything to heal itself with. Then the fighting began in earnest. * * * Taln fought with more than his hands. His Honorblade, for one, was an advantage that no soldier would ever pass up. With the powers it granted, Taln stretched the stone the battlefield to be more to the humans’ advantage, with rough terrain that was pocketed with holes and sharp barbs that slowed the progression of the Parshmen. This did nothing with for slowing some of the Fused, who simply took to the skies, but the majority of them were fighting the groups of Windrunners and Skybreakers. Taln also had made the river turn into more of a tributary, making the ground in front of the Parshmen boggy and hard to march through. Taln was more concerned about the Thunderclasts than the Parshmen, though. He couldn’t directly affect them, but he could make the ground around their feet soft and slow them by trapping their feet or slowing them when they first rose up out of the ground. These beings were perverted creations of spren that were a ghastly mirror image of the beautiful symbiosis that the spren had with the Radiants and the fauna on Roshar. Taln approached the nearing Thunderclast, making sure to be wary of its dangerous appendages. A few other Heralds could heal from being crushed like that, but Taln was not one of them. Its hands were his first target. Taln fell into his system of fighting the Desolations, the dreaded systematic fighting, and returning to Damnation by choice or death. Taln preferred choice, just to remind himself that he joined the Heralds to protect his people, and millennia of torture didn’t change that. Sure, it damaged him, but it didn’t break him. He reached the Thunderclast, slashing with his Honorblade at the approaching hand, which then lost a finger. He narrowly avoided getting hit by the other hand, but still took some damage from where it struck his side. * * * Taln survived the fighting this time, but it was brutal. The only problem was that, as the fighting was winding down, none of the other Heralds died or seemed close to dying. And they didn’t really want to return either. Some of the Heralds used the rationale that they chose to take the position of Herald, so they could drop it. Others had confided that they were broken and couldn’t go back. Taln remembered something that Chanarach had told him right after the last Desolation, which had blindsided him. “Taln, I’m scared. Scared for the people if we don’t go back. But we can’t go back. We’ve all broken; Storms, we are all broken. We can’t keep this up. Will you protect the people if I can’t? Please, Taln, I know you will, but I can’t think. Just tell me?” He responded that, of course he would protect the people, but surely they weren’t all broken? Even Jezrien? Chanarach just gave a grim half-smile as she left for Damnation. Ishar had talked about dissolving the Oathpact, but what would the humans do without them? Taln had never broken in the Desolations or what followed. Sure, he had died, but he never broke. He had to stay strong for the people. That meant that he had to return. Even if the other’s didn’t. Death wasn’t the only way to return to Damnation, the Heralds that survived past Desolations could return without dying, so Taln didn’t doom the human race to destruction by surviving. Strength before Weakness: I will protect those weaker than me. I will fight to protect, so that the future won’t have to, Taln thought. Journey before Destination: I have to journey to suffering before peace can be a destination. He wasn’t trying to bond a spren, he was just strengthening his resolve. Strength before Weakness: I will, and can be strong where others cannot. I will be there when I’m needed, even if ‘there’ is in the deepest, darkest, most painful pits of Damnation. I will return. And Talenelat’Elin, the Herald of War, Patron of the Almighty did something that would earn him the most painful of his titles: Bearer of Agonies. And he would deserve it, because he never gave up, not when the torturing burned his flesh away and was left to regrow around broken bones, or when hooks tore his flesh in strips. Because Taln fought uphill battles at a distinct disadvantage. And Won.

Heyo! I decided to teach myself how to use Unity over quarantine, and after getting a grasp on the basics started working on a Mistborn video game. I decided to start simple and make a game based on Waxillium Ladrian, mostly because his powers are some of the easiest to translate to a platformer without adding any extra mechanics. Additionally, focusing on a Twinborn keeps the control scheme and HUD simple - no need to switch between metals or show a wide array of metal levels. Overall, I tried to be faithful to the physics as shown in the books, though I did make a few decisions based more on what would be fun to play than existing information on the magic. Here's a quick run-through of the tutorial level I made, showing off the Allomancy and Feruchemy. Update: You can now play the demo online here! Basics: It's a platformer. You can run, jump, and climb up ledges. You can jump through the bottom or drop through the top of yellow platforms, while blue "glass" platforms have to be shattered to pass through. There is a slight amount of simulated air resistance, but it's only really noticeable when moving very quickly or when storing weight. I originally wanted to completely remove control while in midair, forcing the player to rely on Allomancy to move around. However, we're so used to being able to nudge characters in midair that this really detracted from the enjoyment of the game. So, while there's not as much control in midair, the player can still move a bit in either direction. This also makes balancing on anchors with Allomancy a bit easier. The player is damaged when colliding with the ground or other obstacles based on the impulse of the collision. Basically, the lighter you are, the faster you have to be moving before you take damage. Feruchemy: There are three discrete levels of storing/tapping mass that the player has access to. The mass at each level is double the previous, and the rate at which mass is stored/tapped in the metalmind is dependent on linear distance from base mass: Level: | Scale: | Rate: -3 | 0.125 | +0.875 -2 | 0.250 | +0.750 -1 | 0.500 | +0.500 0 | 1.000 | +0.000 +1 | 2.000 | -1.000 +2 | 4.000 | -3.000 +3 | 8.000 | -7.000 Like Wax, the player will usually want to be constantly storing, and briefly switch to tapping when they need some extra oomph. Because of the extra air resistance, and the lower impulse on collisions, someone storing at the max rate can survive falls of an indefinite length. Being lighter also means the player can jump higher, while being heavier makes it easier to break glass panels. When changing mass, momentum is mostly conserved, but the change in velocity is decreased from what it should be to prevent some game breaking jumps and steel-pushes. Allomancy: Allomancy was probably the trickiest part to design, mostly because it's the least consistent. Artemos has talked about those issues in depth here, so I won't repeat what's already been said. My decision was to decouple the force on the metal being pushed and the force on Wax. While this completely breaks Newton's Third Law, it does allow for interactions more in line with the books. The force in either direction follows the equation A * (pm1 * pm2) / (r^2), where A is some constant, pm1/pm2 are the perceived masses of the character and the target, and r is the distance. For the force on the target, its perceived mass and the character's perceived mass are their current mass. This means that, if the character is tapping weight, their pushes are stronger and coins are shot faster. For the character, the target's perceived mass increases when it's well anchored, with the amount anchored depending on the angle between the push and the slope of the object the target is anchored against. Additionally, the character always perceives their own mass as their base mass. This means that if the character is storing weight, they can push themselves further and faster. Next Steps: If you want to poke at the code or play around with the mechanics, you can check out the current build on github. I've certainly enjoyed working on this, but I don't really have any future plans for this specific project, mostly because I want to create games that I can freely share and distribute. If I were to continue, the entire code base would probably need an overhaul, since it was written as I was still learning. I may reuse and reskin some of the Allomancy mechanics as magnet-based superpowers in a future game, because jumping around on coins is legitimately enjoyable. Enjoy!

So I was thinking about cosmere based humor recently, and realized that in one of the earliest interludes in WoK, Brandon gives us the perfect set up for a joke, namely: Gallodon Demoux and Baon walked into a purelake tavern. I think this set up has potential, and was wondering if anyone had ideas for a punchline? My idea for the end is: They asked Ishikk if he had seen a certain man with white hair. Ishikk replied that he hadn't seen him, but he'd Hoid (heard, but mispronounced) of him. That is the best I've got, so I need your input.

Hi. It's me... you know what? I'm not using that page clogger anymore. I don't like it much, anyways! Where was I? Ah, yes, bookcase magic. One of my favorites. Whilst traveling throughout the Cosmere, I stumbled upon a strange doorway to another universe. Now, this in on itself isn't that big of a deal, as most universes have tunnels between them, but this one was strange because it led straight into a single-planet universe. Evidently, there was so little matter during its "big bang" that only one star and one planet was formed. Regardless of the lack of an "outside," so to speak, the planet (called Ytri) is a thriving world more advanced than most societally. I was particularly fond of their architectural choices, street food, and fauna organization (keeping kangaroos for pets? A dangerous but worthy ordeal), but as I always say, "You don't know anything about someone until you've looked at their bookshelves." Okay, I've never said that. I say that now, though. Aaaanyway, I went to the local library and found some novels in the Fantasy section, then asked to check them out. The cashier nodded and scanned them the same way any cashier would, but then TORE AWAY the COVER and LIT IT ON FIRE. She did the same for all the books I had checked out, but did so with such bored nonchalantia (is that a word? I don't think that's a word) that I could only pass it off as normal. When she was done, she thanked me for coming and asked me to come again. So I did some research. Evidently, here and Ytri, burning books and actually grants the owner of said books a perfect memory of what was written in them. An interesting discovery in on itself, but that wasn't the half of it. You see, the human mind isn't the most retainable of things (memory loss, in other words, tends to happen), and eventaully everyone wants to reread their books eventually. However, as memory decays, so does the knowledge of the writings in the book. The locals of Ytri have another, slightly less sacriligious process to prevent this: burning bookshelves. By burning a bookshelf, one can retain all the knowledge of a number of books that would have fit on that bookshelf. Some people have burned hundreds of bookshelves and thousands of books, and they find this perfectly normal! I wasn't done yet, though. I needed more evidence; more data. So I hopped about the multiverse and grabbed some books from other realms and brought them to Ytri for some trial-and-error testing. It turns out that burning books from other dimensions does, in fact, yield the same result. Where I thought I was a Harry Potter fan before, now I know every word in all seven books of the series (I proceeded to win a July 31 contest accordingly). Burning an E-Book, fortunately, yielded no results except for a headache and an exploding double-a battery (TAKE THAT, MEDIA!). I also burned The Way of Kings, but doing so did not grant me the powers of a bondsmith as I had hoped. I don't recommend placing Farenheit 451 on a bookshelf and burning it, though. Doing it creates a Black Hole of Irony and short-circuits your cranium. Particle Accelerators

Hello friends! Here’s my cosmere artwork. I’m new to the 17th shard, hopefully there are others here who can appreciate what I’ve done here. I love TSA, these songs are sort of Pop/electro Music I made while rereading tWoK. All original lyrics and music. I put a lot of work into them, what’s your favorite of the three? If people like em I wanna do more let me know.

Hi all, I'm currently working through all the books via audio right now and my brain has doing what I'm sure everyone's does and grasp at any bit of info to try to glean some extra details. I'm thinking about Bridge 4 and I have a theory that Rock will not become a Windrunner but a Stonewarden. Reasons I believe this 1. All through the B4 training sequences he is staunchly against fighting. He does some training but he has no interest in being a fighter. 2. He is part of the nobility of the Horneater peaks but "too important" to be a fighter. He views it as the lowest status. 3. The narrative will eventually take us to the Horneater peaks and there is some foreshadowing that Rock will lead his people. Currently our main characters are filling in slots of the orders, Kaladin - Windrunners, Shallan - Lightweaver ....etc. Rock occupying a slot as one of the first of an order makes a lot of sense. 4. Rock already has incredible physical skills and martial training. He is extremely broad and EXCESSIVELY strong. He is trained in grappling and archery for sure. 5. The Horneaters in general are known for their fighting prowess. 6. Something is going wrong at the Horneater peaks. An assumption is the fused are up to no good and they will need to be fought off I think Rock will 'Stand Where Others Have Fallen' (honestly I'm not in love with this being the second ideal of the Stonewardens. I'm hoping it has something else to do with "fighting evil no matter the cost") and go against his internal strife and become the soldier he never wanted to be but was always meant to be. 7. Horneaters fit with being the "tanks" of the army Feel free to rip this apart.This is my first theory post on here I know its thin on specifics and I should have been taking notes as a went along but here we are regardless. Also feel free to throw in any other bridgemen that might become something different other than a windrunner or a windrunner squire

I think you are missing my point a bit. I don't think the Truthwatchers are secretive. I think that in-text description is a bad description of their order and the following recently provided by Brandon is probably more accurate and fits Sigzil very well Truthwatcher I will seek truth Truthwatcher oaths are themed around seeking to find ultimate truth and sharing it. They are very concerned with knowledge and the proper exploitation of it. Note that this should not be confused with the Lightweavers, whose oaths are themed toward personal truths about themselves, said for reasons of self-actualization. Truthwatchers are more concerned with the fundamental truths of the universe, and whether or not those in power are being truthful with the people they lead. The Truthwatchers are seen as quiet, largely known as the most scholarly Order of Knights Radiant. They tend to attract scientists primarily, but also scholars or thinkers of all types. This extends to some who might not normally be known as scholarly but instead as someone often consumed by their own thoughts. In general, they tend to be reserved, particularly in person, though a small minority of Truthwatchers are greatly concerned with the actions of the powerful and might be likened to investigative reporters. These make their opinions known loudly and forcefully, particularly if they think someone in power is abusing that power or lying about fundamental truths. Note that, as with all Knights Radiant, there is great disagreement within the Order about what is the truth. However, Truthwatchers tend to approach these discussions with enthusiasm, even if they generally prefer to write their opinions rather than speak them. Among the Knights Radiant, the Truthwatchers tend to be those who hold the knowledge and secrets of Surgebinding and are the ones to discover many of the newer advances in things like fabrial technology. Sigzil is rather reserved among Bridge Four. Sigzil was VERY scientific about how he wanted to investigate Kaladin's powers. Sigzil has shown no real inclination to personal truths (lightweaver) nor has he ever seemed to care much about personal perfection (elsecaller)

Honestly, I thought about this before, although my guess has always been on Sigzil. Sigzil could work very well as a Truthwatcher. Especially as a Worldsinger the Truthwatcher attributes "Learned/ Giving" seem such a perfect fit. He is very secretive, educative and factual, which are traits often associated to the members of the Order of the Truthwatchers, but when trying to convey his ideas and knowledge he still needs a lot of improvement (e.g. that one time he tried - and utterly failed - to explain Kaladin the story of Mishim). Therefore, I noticed that bonding a Truthwatcher spren could work very well for his own development. And with that being said, I would just really appreciate it to see more healers in Bridge Four - Renarin can't remain the only one!

A Story About You You read the title of the story and you were pleased, because you had always wanted to read a story about yourself. You are an individual who surfs the 17th Shard, and, whether by choice or by mere coincidence, found your way here. You finished the story and liked it.

Here you go. Yes, the map has been squished horizontally, but I didn't want the shapes to be weirdly oblong and stuff... Or just gigantic. This makes it more like the normal Aon Aon, somewhat square in its dimensions as well.

Hello! This is a Cosmere inspired work--a draft. And I'm looking for any feedback, tips or suggestions. This piece tells the story of the ship "the winds pleasure", from "Words of Radiance". When you hear it, what do you see? Thank you for listening and enjoy! ~ Spock https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dZsaJgwtYWzDKvrm4O4hvl9HCMmQDWrr or The Wind's Pleasure (draft 1).wav

It's been almost 18 months since I logged in, so I figured I should drop a line here to say thanks for holding down the fort. Initially I took a break to finish my PhD (turns out that obsessing over online forums can contribute to a detrimental effect on your productivity), but then when I finally graduated I got sucked into the Worm fandom and have been reading and writing way too many fanfics in that community. If you don't know me from before, I am the proud author of "If Doctor Seuss Wrote the Stormlight Archive" (linked in my sig) and I used to help with the tracking thread (I see several notifications from people tagging me over there, so I'll be trying to belatedly follow up on those things right after this). I have a year and a half of WoBs to catch up on, plus I need to read Starsight and anything else that I've been neglecting since then. If you have any favorite or particularly revelatory WoB from the past year, link me to it! I'm looking forward to being back.

So we learn from the Glyphs shown in one of the Oathbringer art pages that Kalad is the Alethi glyph for Eternal, we also learn that the suffix Lin or Rin in a name means "Born Onto" in an Alethi name from the Dalinar chapters where he names Adolin and where he thinks about Renarin's name. Adoda means light and Lin means born onto so Adolin means Born onto Light. Renarin means he who is born onto himself because Evi didn't fully understand the Alethi naming conventions. So does Kaladin's name mean Born onto Eternity? Kalad meaning Eternal and the 'In suffix meaning "Born onto". (Ignoring for a second any other people with Kalad in their names...)

With the new information about the orders I got to thinking about how odd it is that Windrunners(Honor Spren) and Edgedancers(Cultivation Spren) aren't opposite one another with the other orders rnning a spectrum from cultivating orders to honorable orders. And that got me thinking about whether or not Windrunners and Lightweavers semi-opposite relationship isn't reflected in the other orders. I think they are. Let's look at the pairings. Windrunners have Honor Spren. They focus on protecting others and leadership. Their motivations are external and about their own actions. But we can see the biggest difference here in Cryptics and Honor Spren. Lies and Honor. Now we rotate a step. Skybreakers and Elsecallers. This one is much more pronounced. Skybreakers are about erasure of the self. They make no decisions, they swear to an external code, while Elsecallers are about the perfection of the self. They seek to be the best version of themself. Another step and we have Dustbringers vs Willshapers. Dustbringers embody With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility. They're focused on absolute discipline and self sacrifice. Willshapers are focused on personal freedom and increasing the freedom of others. In a sense this is very similar to Elsecallers and Skybreakers. Next Up, Edgedancers and Stonewards. We don't know much about Stonewards. They're an odd order but they're described as very martial. Edgedancers are healers, they're their for the forgotten and underprivileged. They embody the difference between Kaladin's Kill to Protect and Lyrin's you cannot kill to protect. I think this is probably the weakest adversarial relationship. And the last dichotomy is likely the most important. Bondsmith's and Truthwatchers. Bondsmith's value unity. Truthwatchers value Truth. We can see this dichotomy everywhere. Governments have a terrible time with transparency. Leaders have to know things most people don't. But without oversight this can get skewed. Bondsmiths have to walk the boarder between Tyrant and Leader. We can see how Dalinar's attempts to unify have been dishonest and hidden things. We can see how he's been outed and how the Truth destroyed Unity. But how important that Truth was is also evident. And so I finally understand why Bondsmith's and Truthwatchers occupy that central space among the orders. They both are needed for good leadership. You need unity, but that unity has to come with oversight.

I theorized on a post in another thread about the Heralds, Odium and the unmade. Basically I think that originally they were heralds of odium, excluding Taln, bonded to splinters of odium. In Oathbringer during a Dalinar flashback when hes drinking with Jezrien, hes asked which of the unmade are in his head. Following this Jezrien speaks these words, "We let them in. We attracted them, befriended them, took them out to dance and courted them. It is our fault." These bonds were then broken or "unmade" to seek Honor thus creating the unmade we currently see. When the Helalds took up their powers and the oathpact, we know that Honor made the blades. Was it cultivation who granted to power to bind the fused to Braize? Uncertain for Taln yet but the 10 Heralds have become the 10 fools, was this a boon and bane deal from Culltivation? Before they broke the oathpact they were all tired and scared but no indication of being crazy. So the boon was the power to trap the fused. The curse to either be tortured physically on braize, or mentally on Roshar. Alternatively, the heralds becoming the 10 fools is an inherent trait of Honor, from the amount of his investiture (possibly a little intent included) given to them. Honor can be both good and foolish, it can be what's right and just, it can be an excuse for your own misguided sense of pride and longing for unequivocal respect. The idea of following your oath no matter the cost, even if circumstances change, is rather foolish. Plus towards the end its said to be all honor himself was interested in. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the 3, and your own crazy theories on the subject.

Behold! The ultimate Traveler's Guide to the Multiverse. Please let me know if I have any rule holes, issues, etc.

I do think Sigzil is more secretive than most in Bridge Four. After all, Kaladin managed to hear the past from most bridgemen but definitely not from Sigzil - who still shuts down every time when asked about his past or a certain white haired man is mentioned. But surely, not every Truthwatcher will be" secretive" in nature. The Orders must have a much wider range of personalities with their growing number of members. Personally, I don't think Elsecaller would be a good fit as their second attribute is Careful and they seek Self-Mastery. I'd rather want to see him become a better mediator. But then again, I might be a bit biased here... Although, he could also make a good Skybreaker. He surely is focused on his paper work...

I do agree with that, but to be a world singer you have to actually "sing" about the world, not keep quite about it. I dont think hes secretive, I think he was like all bridgemen not watching to talk about their past. “Now, as the Truthwatchers were esoteric in nature, their order being formed entirely of those who never spoke or wrote of what they did, in this lies frustration for those who would see their exceeding secrecy from the outside; they were not naturally inclined to explanation; and in the case of Corberon's disagreements, their silence was not a sign of exceeding abundance of disdain, but rather an exceeding abundance of tact.” —Words of Radiance, chapter 11, page 6[ I agree that lightweaver is a far stretch, it was more based on his relationship with hoid than his personality. I think elsecaller would be a solid bet though.

A Conversation “It’s just like I tell you. They’re falling from the sky like bomb shells. Whether you believe it or not.” “But I don’t see anything.”, I say. “Elephants”, he continues. “Fleeing from the cheetahs, I bet. Can’t blame them either.” “We’re in town”, I remind him, but he doesn’t listen.

My job here is done.

A Problem She couldn’t have told you why she had left him alive. There he was, running. Maybe I should go after him, she thought. But it was too late. Or was it? damnation it, she thought and lit a cigarette. She called her boss: “Hey, I think we got a problem.”

Good man, I have saved that image and I will never delete it. Also the Omniverse is just one of many universes in the multiverse. You also got the cosmere, the alleyverse, and whatnot. In any case, we totally should. Give me a few weeks and some more essays and I'll have a full-on google doc in no time!

This was so good Channelknight and for a couple of days this image has been kicking around in my brain, a propaganda poster for the ScrubLords: Also you and @SirWolfe should collect your magic systems essays into "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Omniverse", they are so good! As a plot detail you could conduct your travels on a stolen Scrublord spacecraft, that's like Dr. Who's tartus:

Does Nightblood actually increase in power the longer you wield it, or is it simply that TLR could wield Nightblood the longest of anyone we've seen due to his Compounding in sixteen different metals? Actually, would TLR be powerful enough to Push and Pull on Nightblood, with sufficient Compounding? Because then he could "wield" Nightblood as a flying sword at a distance. That is truly terrifying. Brandon's emphasized multiple times in WoBs that Nightblood is the single most difficult thing to Steelpush in the Cosmere, but also never said it was flat out impossible - and if anybody could do it at all, surely it'd be Rashek. Related thought experiment: let's say he decided it wasn't worth the cost, what would be the most efficient way for him to prepare to use Nightblood personally (by hand) for a long time? What's the lightest Allomantic metal... Tin? That's also one of the slowest burning Allomantic metals, so it's perfect. He could fill a giant tinmind as full as possible with Compounding, powder the tinmind, and then swallow the saturated tinmind dust just before drawing Nightblood - burning it as slowly as possible (but at a 10x release of the Feruchemical attribute) to fuel the Blade. And now you have a wielder of Nightblood who can fly with Steelpushes, and run around with sonic boom levels of speed with nigh infinite F-steel.

The interesting thing though, is that while Windrunners and Lightweavers seem opposite, Kaladin gets along really well with all the Lightweavers he knows (Wit, Shallan, Tien, even Elhokar once he gets to know him). Shallan gets along well with Kaladin and all the windrunner squires. While I imagine him really clashing with the cold, heartless logic of Jasnah the Elsecaller and the Skybreakers. I wonder if there are some orders where the spren don't get along but the people do and some where the spren get along but the people don't. As far as where the surges fit with the orders... Kaladin is a leader, he draws people towards himself (gravity) and binds them together (adhesion). Shallan transforms people by showing them better versions of themselves (illumination). Lift slides into cracks in society and heals people. Dalinar pulls people together and binds them together. The Skybreakers pull in people and divide them. The surges do seem to fit with their specific orders and their personalities.

This is the seventh in a series of status updates containing the content from my blog. Please see the first for an explanation. Quotes I took out some of the quotes in my About Me as part of revising it, figured I'd dump them here in case anyone wonders which ones. "The Voidspammer sneered at me. "Do you actually think you can beat the mighty ToysRUs, human?"" - Me "I give up it's Fred his name is Fred." - Arlin Me in PMs: Me: Let's make this a roleplay! Some random Sharder: Wait, but this is an Oathbringer summary PM - Me: ROLEPLAY. "GAH! You're having an emotion! Stay back! Back, I say!" - Zath "IF I DIE, I DIE FOR CHRISTMASTREE!" - Me "Whatever, at least my hole also has Wayne, Marasi, and a bomb flying at it. Best hole." - Me "Yes, Very Deerk." - Archer "Which one was licking your foot?" - Silva "Wait, do you watch RWBY Ene? Why didn't I know this? You need to make it more obvious that you're a fan, I don't think people can pick up on it." - Voidus " You got it. Give me a second." - Me *changes name to RWBYFan(IsThisGoodEnough?) and profile pic to RWBY* "Oh no. Did I ignite this when I said we should spam quotes? Or is she always like this?" - Jay "I'm...always like this." - Me *I tell someone we have a Pokemon RP* "SOLICITING!" - Darth "...it's me. Are you surprised that I'm trying to recruit for an RP?" - Me "No. You didn’t say it was an RP though. *suddenly realizes stupidity of words* *also realizes you did say it was an RP* *facepalms*" - Darth *facepalms in solidarity* - Me "That was a very good wrath." - Zath "Y'all're psychos." - Brightness Warrior "Not new information." - Ark "We had a planet that I'm shocked humanity managed to live on. We had fungus!" - Me "You're so Archer." - Me "Can confirm." - Archer "I'm going to try and figure out exactly how much your keyboard has control over. Hopefully it has limited enough control for us to do something about it. If it has control over the memes thread..." - Luna "Then we're all doomed. I know." - Me "The Alleyverse is truly a beautiful mess." - Stormblessed Dolphin "All Elend could say was: "You're all cats?"" - Elend "I think I'm a Lightweaver, so I need to learn how to turn socks into pudding." - Lith “I can turn socks into liquid socks, but I think that’s a different Surge.” - Itiah “I can make your socks look like pudding.” - Luna “I may have accidentally summoned you, just, try not to blow up the sun.” ”One time! I blow up a star one time and everyone just has to bring it up!” - Po "ENE HAS ATTAINED SUGAR, I REPEAT, ENE HAS ATTAINED SUGAR" - Luna "I'd've punched myself in the face but I don't think any of my characters are healers." - Me "Oh heck a whole box of Sorana this is my lucky day." - Zinc "Well apparently I've ended the world. Again." - Me "Ene, you always do this...I think you need a new hobby." - Luna "I guess, yeah. Perhaps I should take up soul stealing, or driving people into madness?" - Me "The barbed wire will come and on that day we shall rue." - Sleeping Invo "I have been told to start a Short Hair Club. I have obeyed. We don't have a PM or a RP (what would the RP even be?), just this thread." - Me "Ene, you and I both know you could make an RP out of this concept and it would be fantastic and soon I'd decide it was going too fast for me and drop out." - Kidpen "You're not wrong." - Me *makes RP* "Why can't my ancestor's name be Ferrilus Wombert?" - Olivaughn "Dogs birthing dogs makes sense. Unicorns pooping melting pandas makes less sense." - Zinc "Ap, why did you do this to us? I don't know if I want to stab him or hug him when he gets back." - Me "Ene, you’re gonna marry him!" - Stick "What, and that makes him exempt from stabbing? One of my namesakes stabbed HER to-be-husband." - Me "Well, this got real weird real quick." - Me "This is the Shard, did you really expect it not to?" - TFA "What the fuchsia?" - Me "So you're telling me that if I had some catnip on me right now, you would sell your soul to me?" - True "The real question is why you even have catnip on you right now." - Luna

I was bored one day, so I made a bunch of memes, which I am slowly (but surely) posting. Here’s another one:

I just got very bad thought that Kaladin and Shallan wont cross their paths during the whole RoW, Shallan will be on her trip with Adolin, and Kaladin would have the business with Dalinar and Jasnah, and by the end of the book Shallan will decide to break up with Adolin and come to visit Kaladin just to see him and Jasnah being a couple. That would the "Holy Yikes" moment for them all.

I support that idea...

It's finished! Or, as finished as it will get for a while. I printed a physical copy to give to Brandon at Boskone, and he seemed to enjoy it a lot. I wish that I had been able to put more illustrations in it, but there simply wasn't time. I am inordinately fond of my Thaylen eyebrows illustration, though. I feel like it really captures the spirit of the mashup. I'm also quite pleased with the Unkalaki tongue twisters. If only I had figured out a way to stick "Airsick lowlanders!" in somewhere. Anyway, here is the book! (Spoilered for size) I hope you like it! I also had some partial drafts for Stormlight versions of other Seuss books that I didn't make the cut for inclusion. So there may eventually be a sequel or improved draft that includes The Bitter Battle Book (about the war on the shattered plains) and a version of Green Eggs and Ham ("Amaram, Lord Amaram, I do not like the Diagram").

During my last Mistborn reread, I noticed that the terms used for the ranks in the set are all math/computer science terms: Sequence, Series, Suit, Array, and the name Set itself. I originally thought that this might say something about the nature of Trell, however I am not sure exactly what it would indicate. It is possible that these terms are used simply because they are not associated with any known structure other than math (if Scadrians use them in their system of math) and would thus be hard to guess what the internal structure of the Set actually is. Any theories or thoughts about why Brandon uses these names?

I total did not just copy this off the internet.

I was thinking about what the “Evil” versions of the Knights Radiant would be. It’s what the orders would look like if they followed a similar approach to the Skybreakers in taking their Oaths too far. Windrunners: I see this group isolating people from the world so they don’t get hurt. Skybreakers: Seen it with them not questioning the law. Dustbringers: Kind of seen it with Malata and them being able to have a less noble goal. Edgedancers: Hard, maybe they are manipulated by a person who has been forgotten and ignored for good reason, or actively try to hurt those who have not remembered the little people? Truthwatchers: A cold observation on the truth. Probably like a mad-scientist. Lightweavers: Maybe the easiest with them only having to accept they are a bad person but can still believe in their cause. Elsecallers: They might seek perfection at the cost of everything else. Willshapers: This would turn into a group of anarchists Stonewards: They can be dependable to the villain acting as their main muscles. Bondsmith: Uniting Roshar by violence and deceit. So what do you think, any ideas about how they would look.

Death. Reginald Kettis was witnessing the death of the poor man who went only by the name God King. And there was another man who would soon attempt to give Reginald the sweet taste of death as well. Villin looked at Reginald with a deadly stare. Reginald began to run, pushing open the door to the God King's room and sprinting as far as his legs would carry him. Villin wasted no time before beginning the pursuit. They ran through many corridors, Villin right on Reginald's heels the whole way. Reginald began to think about how he would survive, or if he would even survive. Yelling for help would do him no good, just cost him his breath. Eventually he would run into a dead end and have nowhere to- Reginald ran into a dead end. He turned around, ducking as Villin's knife flew over his head and hit the wall behind him. Reginald barely had a chance to stand back up before he was tackled to the ground. The two men grappled on the ground, each seeking to get their hands around the other's throat but not quite able to do so. For a moment, Reginald managed to get on top. Then it was Villin. Then it was Reginald. On and on went this dance of death and life, each man fighting to be the one that would get to breathe another day. Villin took a hand away from Reginald's throat, and Reginald made to flip the man over, but Villin punched him in the gut. Reginald groaned, and once again Villin's hands were around his throat. He'd lost his momentum in the fight. He flailed against Villin, but it was too late. He could already feel his strength leaving him. He remembered his first days in Elendel, his awe at the magnificent city. He remembered his mother, and his father, and his brother. He remembered the footsteps of his father approaching his room late at night when Reginald really should've been asleep but was instead reading a book.... Wait. Those were real footsteps. Reginald could breathe. He opened his eyes and couldn't see Villin. He sat up and saw that there was a hole in the man's head, and his eyes had lost the sweet glow of life and vitality they had once held. Reginald looked around to see who had saved him, but the footsteps faded. Reginald would live to see another day. Kidpen has been killed! They were a Loyalist Spinner Ferring! The_God_King has been killed! They were a PRE Operative Smoker/Connector Twinborn! Magestar was attacked, but they survived! PMs are open, but make sure to add Young Bard, Fifth Scholar, and myself to all PMs. Also, make sure to make new PMs with players rather than adding new players to PMs. There will be a lynch this turn. As a reminder, there is no vote minimum for the lynch, and a tie vote will result in one of the tied players being lynched randomly. The turn will end at 9 pm CDT on June 17th. The next turn will begin one hour later. Player List: PMs will be sent out as soon as possible. Also, I took some artistic liberty with the writeup this turn. Don't take it as a statement for what actually happened with the actions last night.

I made a friend take the quiz. I explained to her briefly what Elsecallers and Lightweavers were (the first because that's what she got and she asked if it was a good or a bad thing, and the second because she wanted to know what I had gotten), and she seems interested. Nothing sure yet since to begin with she hasn't finished her quarantine reading list, but apparently she will at least look into the series to see if it's something she'd like to read. This quiz might be a good way to introduce people to the series. Edit: So, she made another friend take the quiz now (another Elsecaller, they're a couple so I find it interesting). I'll be so happy if both of them end up reading the books.

No he was not. He mentioned he would be talking to him later.

Survivorists don't deny that Harmony exists, is divine, is the "God of Scadrial", and that the kandra are His agents subject to His direct control. Remember, they don't venerate Kelsier as THE God. They venerate Kelsier as also being a divine being - Harmony Himself recognizes that Kelsier had Ascended - and moreover, they venerate what Kelsier advocated and represented as a worldview over the passivity and reflectiveness of Pathians. They place Kelsier over Harmony in their regard not because of his power level, but because of how the religion works for them in everyday life. They also believe he still Survives, out there in the mists, and is still doing things to push people forward. And... They're not wrong. Learning about The Sovereign and his actions in the Southern Hemisphere would probably not rock their world so much as feel like a giant Toldjaso. (Sure they'd be bug-eyed over the news, but from feeling validation, not "this changes everything!") In fact, despite a recent post observing how surprisingly "behind" Scadrians of Era 2 are in Realmatic Theory compared to contemporaneous knowledge on other major Shardic worlds like Taldain, Nalthis, and Roshar, and how ignorant their own double Shard Harmony is about the nature and origin of the powers that he wields (as he is the only living Shard whose Vessel was not present at the Shattering), post-Catacendre Scadrians are far more aware of the nature of their gods than on those other Cosmere worlds as being originally human, of local Scadrian origin with known names and personal histories. That even includes the "Sliverists" who venerate Marsh the Last Inquisitor and likely, the memory of Rashek, the Lord Ruler, and his Steel Ministry.

...dang. I'm realizing that I haven't actually posted anything since April 7th... Maybe I'll come back some time. ...also sorry for the ping??

Dr. Gears stepped through, and the wrongness in reality fixed itself. They faded into existence in a dark alleyway.

"You have 10 seconds," Dr. Gears said. "I will not ask again."

If it comforts you all, he has very positive feelings about his new companion: He also seems to be quite okay in Mistborn Era 2:

Cracks A girl ambled along the stone pathway, footsteps placed carefully. There were many cracks, endless little breaks. Tiny chasms mirroring those in her head. She never stepped on them. Oh, no, not even once, not even if she'd fall otherwise. Darkness lived in the cracks, and she couldn't anger him.

Bang He laughed. He laughed for longer than he should have. He laughed until he couldn't hear. Watching the device tumble down, time seemed to flow just a little slower. He laughed at the funniest thing he'd ever seen. You see, he hadn't expected to actually go out with a bang. (Well that got dark )

“I need you to stay behind as we go into those slums,” Wayne said, determined to impress solemnity into his voice. “It’s not that I don’t want your help. I do. It’s just going to be too dangerous for you. You need to stay where I know you’re safe. No arguments. I’m sorry.” “Wayne,” Wax said, walking past. “Stop talking to your hat and get over here.”

Well, Oathbringer makes it seem like Nohadon is perhaps a cognitive shadow (Dalinar has a vision with Nohadon that is not from the Stormfather and Nohadon is very sentient in that vision). Also, when Jasnah reads TWoK, the sound of the words being read give off light. As well, Dalinar is holding TWoK when Odium fails to corrupt Dalinar. We don't know where the "unite them" voice is coming from, and Nohadon is the simplest answer to some of us. There is just a lot of weirdness going on with Nohadon, and a few of us suspect that Nohadon isn't 100% completely dead-dead.