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  1. I was a Weber "fan" when I was younger, and I think that by now I've read everything he wrote (yes, everything - I'm an insomniac and they helped me get to sleep ). I haven't read anything by him since the week after 9 came out, though - and I really thought it might be the end - and I was wondering if you think that it's worth coming back in? I liked the explanations of technology, how much is there? In all of his space-fareing books, he never really seemed to understand 3d battlefields and treated space like a big ocean (especially in the later Honor Harington books, which are really just replays of famous naval battles, but in space. I even call them Trafalgar and the like to myself ). Is there actually blimp warfare, and does it suffer from the same? because that would be a dealbreaker for me, I'm simply fed up. How do you rate it, and should I buy it or wait for the library?
  2. Could Vivenna's sword possibly destroy nightblood? Do we know enough about how it works? If so, that could be a possible reason to come after it...
  3. However, focusing on bonding can help almost anyone heal from whatever broke them
  4. During my most recent reread of the SA, it seemed to me that the Nahel bond works by taking someone who is broken - and who has a broken spiritweb, with at least one hole, and then a spen insert itself inside, and then leads their bondmate to heal (emotionally) themselves, sealing them inside, and thereby making the spren part of the person, thus granting them some of that spren's inherent abilities, as they are now "part spren", and it grants the spren more intelligence, as it is now part human (or parshman or whatever). This seemed confirmed to me, when, in the vision that Odium invades in Oathbringer (I'd appreciate it if someone could find the quote for me; I don't have a copy with me now) Odium says that people cannot bear that much passion - read, emotion and feeling - without something to share it with). This can actually fit in with the theory of how the final oaths of each order complete the emotional healing by teaching the Radient how to balance their healing method, and just be fully emotionally healthy. (Half-crackpot theory - this may also explain what at the completion of oaths, why that spen's "family" of sub-spren can become part of them as well, but not through an actual bond, just Connection, and therefore it isn't as affected by the breaking of the oath, and why Bondsmiths, the masters of Connection, are the ones to go to with a problem with summoning Plate.) The first Ideal is always journey before destination etc. - the the way that you live your life has value. Then, every order works in their own way: For example, Kaladin, as a Windrunner, dedicates himself to protecting others, thus giving himself a reason to live, and then slowly balances out the logic of that - it must be everyone, and, presumably, to stay emotionally healthy, there must be a limit or the goal of protection itself can drive him crazy. Shallan, most obviously, has to grow past her denial to come to admit the truth of herself to be stable. Lift, as an Edgedancer, dedicates herself to caring for those forgotten. Dalinar, the warlord, dedicates himself to healing the rifts he used to create. So on and so forth. What do you think?
  5. I don't know how much has been speculated on this before, but could the Excisors be simply metalminds letting the wearer store Identity and Investure, then letting them store whatever attribute they happen to hold, and the ability to access it?
  6. And the red market's wares, well, I think they were invisible. I can't be quite sure though; the stalls might have just been empty.
  7. (I just want to preface this by saying that I have no idea if there are any WoBs or anything about this or anything) How were the Terris prophecies created? Were they passed down from Preservation, from the time when he still interacted with the world (but if so, why would their language be so deceptive while technically true? Could they have technically be wrong, like when Odium etc. predicted the future? Can Harmony now see and predict the future just as well, knowing that the language of his predictions will definitely be true?), or were they created by feruchemists by storing an incredible amount of Fortune, and then tapping it all at once? Is this a valid method of predicting the future?
  8. I made my account before I had even heard about broken spiritwebs; I just thought that it was an interesting running theme in the first 2 stormlight books
  9. I also loved the first book of the Blades, and liked the prequel a certain amount too, but hated the second and third books because of the I just finished the coldfire trilogy and Tom Holt, and am trying to decide what to read now. Is Melanie Rawn a good idea?
  10. He used to be an inquisitor, but he pulled out all of the spikes. Where do you think those holes came from?
  11. When Spook was spiked in the arm, it says that Ruin guided the placement so that it would go in in a position that would work - conclusively showing that bind points of some kind are need to gain the power (sorry to spike your bubble).
  12. I hear you on this, and I do agree to a certain degree that the MC's swearing didn't bother me that much because, let's face it' he thought that he was dead. However, Andy was way too foulmouthed for me, and it felt somewhat out of place to have her in NASA like that (although she did provide a nice contrast). I looked for those old threads, and the only suggestions from there that I think are actually clean (other than just mostly clean, which is what those threads were aimed at) are Naomi Novak and Tamora Peirce.
  13. Could Worldhoppers have slowly taken some of the blades away with them over the millenia?
  14. It might be a little easier to convert it if you switch it to a .txt file first (almost every converter supports txt, and most don't support word files)
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