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So in essence ones own standards for changing the vote should be obscure and black box style uncertainty to others but perfectly clear to the self so people feel like they have to prove themselves but cant just push a button to get off scot free sorta thing and voting inactives just to vote inactives is less good and having clear easily met standards is less good and the only way to make people feel threatened is to be unpredictabale is that basically it Interesting how the single word sentence is kinda intimidating Ill be honest @Ashbringer you might want to vote so you dont die Now some quick RP trying to figure out why an OSHA person is in a place not america Cori retreated to a private corner in the archive, hiding behind stacks of books to compile their notes. Most of the conversation was frivolous and fun, a meeting of minds rather than a professional interrogation. They did not have true governmental authority in this land, so they did not feel comfortable controlling the conversation. Besides, establishing trust was better than control from the quick for information gathering. They had fled the Hushlands after the Librarians conquered it, not for their own safety, but because their services were no longer required. Despite their Evil, the Librarians were remarkably skilled at following health and safety protocol. The good of OSHA was needed elsewhere, and if they ever wanted to know of the technology the librarians were suppressing, they would need to usurp their power.

Cycle Two: Did they have... horn rims? Nope. They sure didn't. The glasses were a little more square. Hipster-ish, I guess. Oops? Ashbringer was executed! They were a Free Kingdomer! Matrim's Dice was killed! They were a Free Kingdomer! Vote Count: Ashbringer (4) - Matrim's Dice, Fifth Scholar, Conquestor, Devotary of Spontaneity Droughtbringer (1) - A Joe in the Bush Luckspren (1) - Kasimir Player List This cycle ends Sunday, June 24 at 4 p.m. PDT.

Gods were kind and I woke up despite setting no alarms, so you can always pursue this line of questioning in red if it makes you feel better. Why should I go onto Ash? Why are you interested in defending Luckspren? Is Luckspren particularly under significant threat at the moment? I've flagged this before, but you go walking back into it again. I've pointed this out in games this year, consistently, including in the LG that just happened (yes, I still have the PM, do you?), and still you continue to assume that naked vote = CC. At some point, I am really going to have to suspect you are doing this deliberately and that there is agenda behind this I wouldn't disagree with that tie feeling rather toothless regardless of alignment due to the easy availability of a tie-breaking self-pres vote, which is far less informative than practically any other vote. Which is incidentally why I may ask questions with my votes but don't always immediately remove the vote I do think Araris was on to something with stab voting. Fairly certain I've said this during the clash with Bort in LG84, and it's going to become part of my response to you very shortly. And FWIW, I think Fifth was doing stab voting wrong in LG87, but he also had agenda, so I'm going to sort of let him off on that front. I believe he's making a statement that he'd rather set his epistemic standards high, and by doing so, discount a lot of info but ensure that what he does keep is very high accuracy, rather than lower his standards, and accept more info, but by necessity, of lower accuracy, so fundamentally, yes. It's an approach, let's put it that way. Interesting. So, the Contribution Crusade was born during a period of low activity in SE. My memory says AG1 or AG2, but a quick check shows other things happened there, and STINK and I argue about the CC in AG2 so it's already a thing by then. Either way, in which Hreo decided he would essentially vote to kill inactives as a way of: A. actually getting rid of inactives, and B. incentivising activity. Part of the reason was the suspicion that Elims were lurking in low activity brackets, and also just a significant amount of frustration that low activity players were costing the Village badly in games. (Part of this is a simple playbook - Elims kill most of the high activity players, and then the low activity + inactive brackets just can't solve the game and die in turn.) It's important to keep in mind inactivity filters weren't so much of a thing back then, although there were pinch-hitters. To me, there are two types of CC programmes. Strong CC is that we should lynch inactives and get rid of them. Weak CC is the poke voting meta that (in my view) got strengthened by CC, where players could poke vote - leave a vote on an inactive and peace out, or simply swap their vote to another inactive the second the person they voted on posted. There are a lot of problems with the strong CC model: A. Genuine inactives don't care B. This doesn't generate very much information C. It allows the Elims to blend in by appearing 'helpful' (if CC is defined as pro-Village) without putting them under substantive pressure - basically it greatly lowers the bar for what it takes for anyone to count as Village D. It doesn't really encourage quality activity or engagement with the game, just the semblance of it I wouldn't say CC is almost always bad. If it's clear you're dealing with a passive or low activity Elim team, then you do have to take shots in the dark, so as to speak. (Sart's LG71 comes to mind, when we were dealing with an exceptionally quiet Elim team.) The point of criticising CC isn't to say killing inactives or borderline inactives never works, because that's a really bad argument since sometimes that's where the Elims are. The point of criticising CC is to say that CC doesn't actually fulfill its stated goals - if it did, inactivity filters would mean we have highly active games, and that's really obviously false! Moreover, CC basically makes the game landscape worse for the Village. So an actual lynch on an inactive and strong CC shouldn't be conflated. (I would also argue that's not really strong CC anymore since you come to it by having ruled out all/most other possibilities - it's just bad practice to start a game by going there, since Village already starts with an informational disadvantage. Refusing to lynch low activity players when you've cleared pretty much everyone high-activity results in Village self-cannibalism, and a potential loss.) The problem with the weak CC model, or the diluted poke vote model, is essentially why I'm an advocate of Araris's stab voting and have been since...oh, I think that game where he told Ventyl he wasn't trying to get Ventyl to post, just to kill him. A. It creates a very clear contract - post anything and I will remove my vote. This doesn't incentive players to post anything alignment indicative and greatly lowers the bar for what it takes for any player to feel safe from the lynch. B. It allows the Elims to blend in by appearing 'helpful' (if CC is defined as pro-Village) without putting them under substantive pressure - basically it greatly lowers the bar for what it takes for anyone to count as Village. C. It doesn't really encourage quality activity or engagement with the game, just the semblance of it. This happened when Bort just poke voted Tani, Tani showed up, and no one got anything much out of that in LG84. D. It doesn't generate very much information - if I poke-vote Lopen, and Lopen posts "hi, sorry I can't get into the game," and maybe adds a single comment on the gamestate and I unvote him and move to the next inactive, that's extremely poor contribution and the Village doesn't benefit from it. Note that if I were actually doing a CC vote, I wouldn't have voted Luckspren or Mat to begin with since they had posts, and there are genuine inactives (well, now just one I think) in this game. This is why it really frustrates me every single time Mat sees a naked vote, and decides it has to be a CC vote, as sure as Vegemite goes with bread To rehash my views on stab voting as opposed to poke voting, though Araris and I both said a substantial amount of it in thread and I did in my faction doc that game (LG84) - I strongly feel that stab voting breaks the expectancy trap, and that's what Fifth was doing wrong in LG87. The point of stab voting is that the other player can't reliably predict what is going to make you take your vote off. This is why stab voting encourages pressure. If there's the implicit understanding that addressing your question or answering your argument is going to immediately make you move off, then the player (especially if Evil) knows that all they've got to do is to immediately answer, and the vote goes off. They don't feel any psychological pressure. Conversely (as Fifth was signalling in that LG), if your vote is explicitly signalled as staying put for the entire cycle anyway, then there's no pressure either (probably a bit more than poke-voting, since someone can double up), since the player already knows that nothing is going to get that vote to come off anyway. The point of voting is to apply pressure via threat of death. Votes that go on players who are not functionally excluded from death for that cycle exert more pressure if they're on substantial trains, less pressure but still pressure if they're train starters. If I could summarise stab voting in a single line, which Araris is probably better at, it's this: "Unvote because your vote is better off elsewhere." Predictably leaving your vote on a player to the end of the cycle, especially when you have better places to apply pressure violates this rule. So does immediately unvoting just because the player you voted dropped a thin post. The trick, of course, is determining where your vote is better off, if at all, but that's a player judgement call. So this is a lot of random voting theory but I guess that's good SE tradition.

Thing: Say whatever about it or nothing at all, at your leisure.

There are a number of theories floating around about who/what Aux is. We know a couple of things for sure: Auxiliary claims to be dead Auxiliary is referred to as a spren Auxiliary acts as a living shardblade by changing shape Auxiliary is probably not a bonded cognitive shadow of a dead knight radiant (WOB) Auxiliary refers to himself as knight and Nomad as a squire Auxiliary can absorb and then use multiple types of investiture Auxiliary can manipulate spirit webs with what looks like Spiritual Adhesion Auxiliary can initiate a Skip to transport Sigzil, assuming he has enough investiture Before I really get started, there is a WOB that is brought up frequently in these discussions: I think the intentionality refers to the clause "at one point", as in Sigzil held the dawnshard prior to this book but after SA4. And there is no additional implication. We know that Sigzil no longer has the Dawnshard: " An after-effect of the burden he’d once carried, the thing that had given him his Torment." This is important, because it means that all the abilities Aux shows are innate as are Sigzil's. As a couple of other posts have deduced, Bondsmith surges seem very similar to Aux's abilities. Spiritual Adhesion to allow Connection between Nomad and the planet and between Nomad and Hoid. Aux can also fuel Skipping, which seems similar to how Dalinar summons perpendicularity, though Brandon did confirm that skipping doesn't require the use of a perpendicularity. So, I propose that sometime before SP4, a new Bondsmith was added to the order. We are led to believe it is possible in Words of Radiance, in Epigraph 44. The name itself is most reminiscent of the unique spren that Bondsmiths bond. Auxiliary as in "a person or thing providing supplementary or additional help and support." Makes sense that if a new bondsmith was created, that it would because help was needed. Even Sibling was created with the specific purpose to oppose Odium. Why not a 4th in the most desperate times? Not sure who would bond Aux but maybe someone we have not met. Now, Auxiliary claims to be dead. When a radiant abandons the oaths, the spren turns deadeye, and deadeyes are not vocal like Aux. So what happened? There is a WOB that might shed a little light. So, what happens to a spren that has completely melded into one with their radiant if that radiant dies or forswears? Could the mind of the radiant persist as a sub personality of the spren while the spren gains the ability to manifest without an additional bond (given that they are still basically bonded to the dead knight)? The knight's mind and the spren's body. If this is true, it would explain the odd third person dialog from Aux. It would also explain why he refers to himself as a knight. But why is Nomad a squire? He was a knight radiant last we heard, a windrunner. We do know that Bondmiths have squires: Well, maybe Sigzil, being apart of the Bondsmith's retinue qualified him to being both a squire and a knight, at least in Aux's mind. Now, what about Nomad's lack of oaths, oaths ended and forgotten. Oath's that were suppose to override part of the Torment. Lets say that Wit convinces or tricks Sigzil into picking up the Dawnshard while still bonded to his Honor spren. We know that it could cause problems and that something did/is happening with his spren because of the Dawnshard So we know that having a bond with a spren means that their essence is filling in cracks in the spirit web. Holding a Dawnshard does the same thing. What happens when those two forces start overfilling the cracks or even worse, fighting over the space. I cannot imagine anything good for the Radiant or the spren. So Sigzil and his spren mutually decide to end the bond. But, that time while being bonded and holding the Dawnshard has greatly increased his Torment. So, now lacking a blade of his own, Sigzil and Aux (now the semi-deadeye) teamup and the resonance between Aux's surges and Sigzil's investment from being a Dawnshard for a time, allow for skipping.

It seems like individual shards have associated numbers. I have not seen a full list complied, so I attempted here. Please respond with suggestions or corrections. Dominion (Shu-Dereth idea of uniting all under one nation) Cultivation (Boon/Bane) Ambition ( Simple Rules, number of the "Greater Good") Ruin ( Number of Koloss spikes and Kandra blessings) Endowment (base Heightening level for a returned) Devotion (number of days in weeks and months in year) ? Autonomy (number of sand master ranks) Odium (number of unmade) Honor (number of surges and orders of knight radiant) ? ? Virtuosity (teased theme from Fibonacci sequence) ? ? Preservation (well, did you read Mistborn or not) Hard to fit fit in Mercy, Whimsy, Valor, Intervention, and the last unnamed shard fit in, as we just don't have enough information.

This feels wobbly for some reason its lkie you say 'I thought' leaving room open for them tothink otherwise but then not considering that other opinion plus you could have askedi nstead of voted it feels strong for no reason like overstating The thing about the tie setup is its the sorta thing to lose effectiveness if you bring it up cause knowledge of the thought will mess with the data I think what youre trying to say is it has a big chance of being wrong which is true true true but is it better then voting someone actually at random though thats what you compare to thats baseline plus youre just a blackbox all the time you do things and I dont know why and the easiest way to look in a black box from the outside is to smash it so just like talk me through whats in your head and you wont get cced so much This is true but I think whats different about this tie is theres like one vote on each guy and its been like that and itll continue to be like that like if I were in that tie I woudlnt even care evil or not its not even about 'oh Im ok with the tie' its more like none of the votes here feel like they matter its all fluff and nonsense and wobbles and it doesnt feel threatening in any way Quick thing not attahced to quote what is your working definition of a contribution crusade mines when theres an active movement to vote out an inactive purely fro inactivity no other reason so this doesnt include poke voting or voting an inactive for any othe reason which is kinda why Matrims talk about the CC is kinda ringing odd for me at least like given my working definiton its practically always bad What exactly do you mean by falsep ostiive do you mean you often get villagers who are implicated by breakin gties yeah sure it does its not a first last and only metric its just something to keep in mind moving forward 'hey this person actively cares if this other person dies' its a data collection technique and yeah its better when the tie is a bit more organic in nature or at least the trains are and then you tie it at that and seee where it goes the problem is right now its just like one or two votes a guy no one feels threatened about one or two votes Why do you feel the neeed to demand reasoning with votes attached why cant you just ask if youre voting someone solely as a way to add oomph to your question which will be removed upon satisfaction its about as useful as a poke vote its like a trick knife at that point nots harp at all I mean if you catch an elim or if youre already in touch with the requisite two thats a pretty good reason to bring it forward but yeah keep things on the downlow I mean what are the downsides of leaving the tie as is in comparison to making it definitely one guy or orchestrating a tie when theres no preference unless its a game where ties kill no one plus maybe its not directly leading to killing an elim b ut its like that box chain puzzle it links things together Did you typo here or are you actually implying youd rather have less information Any of the people curently floating by without having too much attention while still being present Why are you unvoting also throw caution to the wind be bold make mistakes learn from them I mean Luckspren was on intiially then never showed up again vs Ashbringer who hadnt shown up at all at the time None of the people currently stuck in the vote are people I want dead or find suspicious in a significant capacity beyond normal levels from Matrim and The Unknown Novel who I always finkd a bit wobbly on all levels so Ill hold off throw a vote in if something happens that I dont want it to but honestly this post wasnt very productive just a bit of questions

Hello again ladies and gentlemen, I mocked up something that more or less represents the pathian symbol described in the books. I mostly made it for this video, but figured you folks would appreciate seeing it as well. The black on the outside and white on the inside is deliberate. It was extremely annoying getting the paths to interlock like this, but I think i did it correctly. Let me know what you think!

I'm a huge Stormlight Archive fan who happens to be a nuclear engineer. Perhaps it's my weird brain, but I find parallels between stormlight and atomic energy. I also find inspiration in the books for the perseverance I need when advocating for a source of energy that, like stormlight, can be used for both good and evil. I wrote a blog post about it here. I also took the time to showcase some great Stormlight fan fiction (with permission). I hope you find it interesting. Happy to answer questions or critiques here

Congrats Ene, this is now relevant

Panorama of Roshar. Hope you guys like it! I had a LOT of fun painting this one, though I was nervous about accidentally spoiling something as I was only starting the Oathbringer at the time of painting this. I'm definitely painting more of Stormlight in the future. Maybe Jasnah... or Pattern? I'd love to be commissioned for official art for the future books, that would be the dream! I also welcome any feedback and critique, both for artistic execution and lore, but keep in mind that there had to be some liberty in putting together Urithiru so low and close to the Shattered plains and Horneater Peaks, for the sake of making the focal pieces clustered [Urithiru + Stormfather above the Shattered Plains] in the center of the painting as requested, for custom book sleeves with for all 4 books. Their spines, when put together, show the center of the painting. "The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

I think you needed to @ Devo here

Glad you enjoyed the chapter and implications. I particularly like this quote: You can almost smell the smoke from their brains when faced with a Bridgeman who can think Well . . . (Ender Spoilers)

Granted, you are now blind. I wish for an upvote from the next person to post here.

I enjoyed your blog post! Being in Texas where we have struggled with our power grid I am an advocate for nuclear power. Good luck with your work!

Whoa, my topic has turned into a discussion of religion and social issues! I'm both honored and a little nervous Now that I think about it, Israel of all places is probably the most likely to be like that, because Judaism doesn't involve the individual person "talking to God" like some other religions (e.g. Christianity), so spiritual experiences are probably less of a thing to begin with. But maybe it was realistic for Jasnah to use that as an argument. I personally think discounting others' experiences doesn't lead to great logic. Also I respect that this is an atheist written by a religious author, and he's probably doing a better job than if I tried to write a religious character. Also Jasnah lives in a much more religious society than ours; she has to defend her beliefs all alone! Chapter 32, Side Carry (Kaladin): Okay, that didn't end as spectacularly as I was imagining, Kaladin destroyed the entire plateau assault and got beaten up, even if he did save all of Bridge Four. I probably should have seen it coming though that something would go wrong. The chapter is near the beginning of the part, not near a climax, and this book has a tendency to end chapters on grim notes. I still can't wait to see what happens next and wish I didn't have to read about Shallan and could just focus on Kaladin Very interesting the idea that if a piece of a system is organized way better than the rest of the system, then it will cause the rest of the system to fall apart... I love when books deal with this type of stuff. Reminds me of Ender's Shadow where Bean reorganized the kids on the street at the beginning (it was a little different and things didn't fall apart there, but it dealt with the same theme of one person reorganizing a bad situation). I wish I found more books that did that. One thing I forgot to say about the previous Kaladin chapter is what is Gaz bribing Lamaril to not talk about?? At first I thought it was Kaladin, but everyone knows about Kaladin so it must be something else...

Nightblood can cut through Fused, Thunderclasts, and Spren. 2 questions. Yes, I know that Nightblood hurts like crazy when you draw it. But If Szeth drew it some more, he could’ve annihilated the Fused forever. However, can Nightblood destroy an Unmade or the Nightwatcher, Stormfather and Sibling?

Stormfather is not only spren but he also holds the bigest remains of Honor, he's probably the most invested being beyond Shards, so I believe stabbing him with Nighblood would look really similar to stabbing Odium - it could seriously damage or even destroy the identity of the spren but not fully consume all of its Investiture. What would remain would be injured Stormfather or Investiture without a Vessel, which would probably reform and manifest itself as new spren. You could probably stab Stormfather in that vision during Highstorm as it looks almost the same as Odium's visions that Taravangian was pulled into. But other Godsprens and Unmade would probably be fully consumed by Nightblood.

The problem with Kaladin as the Sword of Harmony is that Harmony needs someone to act on his behalf as he is useless even on the world he's most (and only as far as we know) invested in. Kaladin being that sword would be equally as useless as Harmony is right now as both of them cannot act on Scadrial where they're both most needed. Wax on the other hand is on Scadrial, is watched by Harmony and his Kandra from early on, performs multiple tasks on behalf of Harmony, talks with him on multiple ocasions, his story takes place after this letter is written, and he even said he's a Sword of Harmony. I don't know why there is such confusion about who is Sword of Harmony. Kaladin is Son of Honor not Sword of Harmony.

There is no such character in the book. He is describing a hypotetical scenario.

Most likely no, as the ability to Surgebind comes from the Honorblade, not spiritweb of holder. Feruchemy works only with the person themselves, so it is the person that has to be Invested/have the power.

Just a couple somewhat relevant WoB. So hard to say for sure because we really do not know what Nightblood's limit is exactly except that it is not enough to kill a shard, enough to kill a vessel but he will get "full" from a perpendicularity. I would think he could kill an Unmade and damage but not kill Nightwatcher/Storm Father because he would get too full.

Oh wow! That... makes a lot of sense! That... sounds incredibly plausible and likely. But seriously! Good job! Finally a theory that I have enough Cosmere knowledge to understand! I wish I could upvote it more than once.

Possibly or seriously damage them. We know that Shards are beyond it, but something lesser might be killable.

Poem 30 Divine Drought Waters flowing from rivers that feed and nurture the highest of worlds are stopped up before they can rain down on the mortal realm. Wellsprings of power are deserts that deprive regions of life itself. Carnage tears down city walls leaving all exposed to legions that are hungry for everything that they can seize for themselves. Families are torn from with and without until all that is left are roving bands of marauders. Beasts slaughter each other without purpose or desire leaving oceans of blood and rotting flesh behind as almost morbid sacrifices. In the oceans predators of the deep destroy each other without hesitation. Plains once lush are now decayed and little more than desiccated deserts. Madness strips away the wisdom of all of humanity that knows not how the gods have withheld all that once crowned this reality with glory. None can hear the laughter from on high where the sovereigns of this place rejoice over conserving for themselves that which they never needed. Unrelenting greed casts the darkest of shadows over existence shrouding it in misery of the purest sort. From the heart of the tributary that has been held in its course and prevented from keeping the cosmos in balance comes first a voice. The sweetest of songs ascends stopping the betrayers wherever they are. Sound becomes a warrior cloaked in the light of the stars wielding music as the weapon by which she will pass judgment. She gazes into the distance and sees into their minds discerning even those things that they hide in the depths. Tears trickle from the eyes of those who wished no harm on reality. These hear the wordless tale and understand so much so that they cry out in anguish. Evil is smitten and these scream in agony while they feel all of the destruction that they have inflicted fill them. Ichor is an inferno and bones knives that show no mercy. Creation wavers, but then the dam erupts pouring the might from above down below as an unstoppable deluge. That goddess who still sings guides the restoration and makes humanity forget, but those who are truly privy enshrine her as monarch now and forever.

They took the long way back to Lita’s office, ostensibly because Laurelai was in no shape to Alleytravel. But in truth, Lita simply enjoyed towing Laurelai alongside her. She watched the blonde drift like a kite, blue eyes fixed on a point far away, fevered and drunken. Lita kept her hand on Laurelai’s wrist as they walked, feeling the staccato beat of her pulse against the tips of her fingers. Tin burned comfortably in her stomach, and as Lita neared the door of her office she allowed herself to revel in the feeling. She could almost taste the need in the air, could almost hear Laurelai slowly fracture. Lita grinned, and it was sharp, and cruel, and beautiful. “I don't remember a storm." Laurelai said, speaking at last as they stood before the door. "But I remember rain. Quiet and gentle and dangerous as all the Alleys." Lita unlocked the door, and Laurelai’s words dripped in through her ears, collecting until they fell like fat drops of ink into the water of her memory. Rain, rain falling hundreds of feet below the earth. The smell of wet stone, the crunch of powdery dust beneath her feet. And the reflection of blue light off the walls of a narrow grotto. Lita closed the door, sliding the lock with more force than strictly necessary as the strange phantom memory began to move out of the shadow of her mind. She dropped Laurelai’s hand, turning to look at her, and though Laurelai’s eyes were fixed on her face Lita knew that she wasn’t truly seeing her - she was seeing something else. And Lita could see it too. Laurelai continued to speak, her words conjuring more than a vague imagining in Lita’s mind. She was there. She heard that whispered beckoning, the screaming danger warring with a powerful urge to step forward, to reach out. To take and be taken in return. An urge stronger even than hunger - a deep and rending thirst. Laurelai’s breath was coming ragged now, her eyes closed but flicking back and forth beneath her eyelids as though she were in a dream. Or a nightmare. Lita moved closer, the slightest hint of unease seeming only to amplify the searing heat of her mood. Here was a secret to tease out expertly, a loose thread that had so willingly laid itself in Lita’s hand. If she pulled slowly and carefully enough, could Lita follow it back to its source? These aberrant memories, the flashes of deja vu, the secret department - it was all connected, she could feel it. The lure of that secret stoked the familiar heat of anticipation. Lita wanted to taste it. She needed Laurelai to keep talking. “Do you know the first rule of interrogation, Laurelai?” Lita brushed a stray lock of silvery-blonde hair back behind Laurelai’s ear, letting her finger trace down the back and along the edge of Laurelai’s jaw. “After all, not everyone is so generous with their secrets as I am.” ”Sometimes,” Lita continued, moving behind Laurelai now, sweeping her long curtain of hair over her opposite shoulder to expose the pale, graceful expanse of her neck, “you will need to be extra persuasive.” Lita was grateful for the height of her heels, which made them nearly on equal footing. Her mouth reached just perfectly to the hollow curve behind Laurelai’s ear. ”The first rule,” Lita whispered, “is to learn what someone wants. And only when they have given you all the information you require do you let them have it.” Lita allowed her lips to just barely graze the curve of Laurelai’s neck where it met her shoulder, her skin intoxicatingly soft to Lita’s tin-enhanced senses. Lita felt herself falling into the sensation and pulled back on the reigns of her own wants. A novice rushed a job; an expert took her time. Laurelai was a thread worth winding around each one of her fingers until she finally snapped. ”Let us have a practical lesson, you and I,” Lita said, sliding back into Laurelai’s field of vision. The young woman’s eyes were half-lidded and dark with yearning. Lita leaned forward until only the barest fraction of an inch separated them. “Tell me everything you see in your memories, Laurelai, and then I’ll give you exactly what you want.” @Voidus

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Depends on the book… WoK: Definitely Kaladin, he was better the whole book but that scene where he lands and speaks the 1st ideal is carved into my brain. WoR: Shallan without Jasnah gets a chance to shine, and Kaladin takes a back seat more as we learn more about Bridge 4 Oathb: Shallan really came alive in this book and is as engaging a female character as Ive ever read. RoW: The Lopen lol. Joking of course but Id put Kaladin ahead of Shallan in this one mostly because Shallans mental health issues reminded me too much of her slow (not bad just slow) start and meeting Kals family gives a great backdrop for his development.

Welcome to the Shard! Glad to meet another Brandon fan. Now for the important question; Kaladin or Shallan?

I think also identity is used here he might have a hard time getting other peoples investiture but unclaimed ones he can use

It took me a while to finish the series, but I finally did! Stayed up until almost 3am because I couldn't put it down. Once again, was not disappointed! I pride myself in being able to catch on to the plot, and figure things out quickly, but I was never ahead of David. I figured it out as he did, I messed it up when he did, etc. It's so refreshing to have books that I can't predict. Sanderson writes it so perfectly, that when you finally figure it out, it feels obvious because there were all these hints and signs, but they didn't make sense until that moment. I know it's a young adult series, but his writing is so intelligent that I didn't feel like I was reading a YA novel. I stopped reading the later Percy Jackson books because they started feeling too young for me. I had just gotten too old for them to grab my attention in the same way. No such issues with Reckoners. It's nowhere near as complicated as Mistborn, but it's no 'dumbed down'. There's just a little less to the magic system, but even then, he didn't simplify the magic system so much that you couldn't figure it out quickly! So yeah, that's my praise of the Reckoners Trilogy. I have the whole of the Cosmere to read next.

I dont think it would protect the wielder much at all. His unsheathing is more than a physical thing, its the Intent of "unleashing" him, after which he even weaponizes the aluminum sheath. If if can incorporate the sheath I think it would not be stopped by aluminum gaunlets. Maaaybe a full aluminum suit, but I think even then it's more likely the tendrils will start eating/converting matter to feed itself before it would be foiled or depowered, etc.

Hello! Good to meet you all. I started reading the sando's books in 2017-ish, and have been hooked ever since. I even started a series on youtube talking about some theories about the cosmere, analyzing them, etc. I've lurked here for quite a while before joining up, and I have to say this seems like a lovely community. Can't wait to interact with you folks and talk about my more insane theories. Cheers!

That's fantastic news! Well done! My favorite by a large margin is the second option. The first would be my second choice. The last version didn't hold up to the others in my opinion, although the detail of why the skin darkening spray was being used was nice. A few details caught my attention. If you weren't looking for line by lines, please ignore: In Version #2: The first paragraph has a lot of comas, so in my head it read a little choppy. "Darkening of his skin" is in a slightly different font than the rest of the text. "I may have a job to do...": Q's thoughts later on are italicized, but these aren't. Unless he is speaking outloud? Again, well done! Please keep us posted on how it goes

Mistborn

No hard feelings then! I made some more of these Kelsier: Dandelions symbolize everything I want to be in life Hoid: Fluffy and dead with a gust of wind? Kelsier: Unapologetic. Hard to kill. Feral, filled with sunlight, bright, beautiful in a way that the conventional and controlling hate but cannot ever fully destroy. Stubborn. Happy. Bastardous. Friends with bees. Highly disapproving of lawns. Full of wishes that will be carried far after I die. Lift: edible Vin: Here’s a fun Christmas idea. We hang mistletoe, but instead of kissing, you have to FIGHT whoever else is under it. Elend: Vin no. Kelsier: Mistlefoe. Elend: Please stop encouraging her. Sazed: I trust Kelsier. Dox: You think he knows what he's doing? Sazed: I wouldn't go that far. Adolin: You lying, cheating, piece of crem! Kaladin: Oh yeah? You’re the idiot who thinks you can get away with everything you do. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD Adolin: I’m leaving you, and I’M TAKING SYL WITH ME Shallan, picking up the monopoly board: I think we’re gonna stop playing now. Being a Shard changes you... Sazed: There is no future. there is no past. do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. Breeze: Spook: Ham: Everyone Else At Sazed’s Surprise Birthday Party: Kelsier: All I asked was if you wanted to cut your birthday cake first. Wax: Harmony, I'm sad. Sazed: *holds out arms for a hug* It’s going to be okay. Lightsong: Endowment, I'm sad. Endowment, nodding: mood Marasi: We’ve been conducting an ongoing study to see what Wayne will and will not eat. Wax: Grass? Yes! Marasi: Moss? Yes!! Wax: Leaves? Ohh, yes! Marasi: Shoelaces? Strange but true! Wax: Worms? Sometimes! Marasi: Rocks? Usually nah. Wax: Twigs? Usually! Marasi: Steris's cooking? Inconclusive! Harmony: How did you… test this? Marasi: You just hand them stuff and say ‘eat this’ and if they eat it, they eat it. Harmony: ... I don’t know how to feel about this. Steris: IS THAT WHERE ALL MY SPARE SHOELACES WENT? Wax: Nothing in life is free. Steris: Love is free! Marasi: Adventure is free. MeLaan: Knowledge is free. Wayne: Everything is free if you take it without paying. Adolin: Imagine if someone handed you a box full of all the items you have lost throughout your life... Kaladin: Self-esteem, haven't seen you in years! Shallan: Oh wow, my childhood innocence! Thank you for finding this! Navani: I knew I lost that potential somewhere! Dalinar: My moral code, is that you? Adolin: I - Adolin: I was just gonna show you this cool trunk my mother left me but do you guys need a hug? MeLaan: I’m gonna need a human skull and I can't have you ask any questions why. Wayne: Only if you also don't ask why Wayne: *Pulls out 7 pristine human skulls* Take your pick. MeLaan: Wayne: MeLaan: This one is fine Adolin: I actually have a black belt. Renarin: In what, karate? Adolin: No, from Gucci. Adolin: 'Person of interest' is almost too flattering. Adolin: Like, if the police were to pound on my door and go, 'A man has been murdered in your building and you are a person of interest,' I'd be like, 'Moi? Oh, do go on.' Kaladin: You think I really give a storm? I can’t even read. Hoid: Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. Jasnah: I’m sick and tired of being called 'mortal' like, you don’t know that. Neither do I. I have never died even ONCE. Nothing has been proven yet. Stop making assumptions. It’s rude.

I'm not sure, actually. I just know people use it as an incorrect quote. I'm using a generator. Sometimes I give it the names and it puts them where it wants, sometimes I assign the names based on what makes sense. Some more: Kaladin: Hey, Shallan? Can I get some dating advice? Shallan: Just because I’m with Adolin doesn’t mean I know how I did it. Kaladin: I love you guys, you're the best thing that's happened to me. Shallan: We're the best thing that's ever happened to you? Kaladin: Yes! Adolin: I'm starting to feel a little sorry for you. Kaladin: I know you snuck out last night, Shallan. Adolin: Play dumb! Shallan: Who's Shallan? Adolin: NOT THAT DUMB!!! Adolin: Who thinks I can fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth? Kaladin: You’re a hazard to society Shallan: And a coward. DO TWENTY. Shallan: In my defense, I was left unsupervised. Dalinar: Wasn't Wit with you? Wit: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised. Vin: I’m kind of crushing on someone, but I’m worried about telling you who it is, because you’re not going to like it. Kelsier: Just rip the bandage off. Vin: It’s Elend. Kelsier: Put the bandage back on. Hoid: We need to get through this locked door. Dalinar, give me your credit card. Dalinar: Here. Hoid, pocketing it: Thanks. Kaladin, kick down the door. Edwarn, negotiating with Wax: We have Wayne. Give us ten thousand boxings and he will be returned to you unharmed Wayne: Whoa, whoa, wait, you think I’m only worth ten thousand dollars? Edwarn: Wayne: MAKE IT ONE MILLION– Wax: WAYNE STOP *Hoid and Kelsier skipping stones on lake* Hoid: It’s such a beautiful evening. Kelsier, whispering: Take that you stupid lake Navani: Lift was banned from the chicken shack, so we had to go out of town to get some. Lift: Well, they shouldn’t say “all you can eat” if they don’t mean it. Dalinar: Lift, you ate a chair.

to teft, the one who died at the hands of a friend, knew he was loved. and to everyone else, don't be hard on yourself. if teft can forgive himself, so can you, and he'd want you to

If Marsh had kids Daughter: Hey, Dad? Marsh: Yes? Daughter: Can I get my ears pierced? Marsh: NO!! Daughter: C'mon Dad, they wouldn't even have any charge! Marsh: No child of mind will be pierced by metal. EVER. Daughter: Mom, Dad won't let me get my ears pierced. Mother: *sigh* That's just because he regrets his own piercings.

This one is dumb

A collection of quotes from things that aren't by Brandon Sanderson that (fairly poorly) describe the arcs of some of the major characters through each Stormlight book: WoK: WoR: Edgedancer: OB: I was going to have more of these, but I had trouble coming up with them. If anyone else thinks of more, please add them.

Presenting cosmere characters as yearbook quotes! Featuring my terrible drawings! Spoilered for size, because I got carried away and made heaps.

This is what I thought of as I lay in bed last night. Most authors when they write a plot twist: Brandon Sanderson when he writes a plot twist:

It would be amazing though. Imagine burning a music sheet into your brain by eating a pop tart. Illegally at that. This one may be a bit controversial but I found it funny.

Hey hey! Hoid is here to add some pizazz! (^o^)(^o^)(^^)/(^^)/(^^♪(^^♪(^^♪(・∀・)(^_-)(^。^)(*^^*)(^o^)／