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Not-So-Logicalspren

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  1. I don’t normally try to do movie casting decisions, because the question of race and what you can and can’t change is way too controversial for me to deal with, but I would love to see Christoph Waltz as either Odium or Sadeas. His acting in Inglorious Basterds is one of the most terrifyingly charming and evil performances I’ve ever seen. Edit: Possibly Taravangian, but I prefer the other ones.
  2. Retired means he’s not going to be a sort-of-kind-of-constable anymore. I can’t imagine that Wax is the type of person who would sit by and do nothing when two of his best friends are taking down the criminal organization lead by his sister. I would actually be extremely disappointed in him if he does give up on bringing down the Set. Just my own thought. And I know that WoB said that he’d be retired to <a thing>, and I think that thing is chasing the Set.
  3. I'm thinking it's going to be somewhat of a pattern following the first 3 books. Book 1, Wax and Wayne are hunting down their old pal. Book 2 Wax is trying to figure out his feelings towards Marasi. Book 3 Steris becomes Wax's wife and he discovers he loves her. I think the only major character that Wax interacts with who hasn't been on the cover and that book 4 has to elaborate on their relationship is Harmony.
  4. I agree that Hoid would never bond spren that would place behavioral checks on him. That's why it all depends on how Adolin's bond with Maya plays out. If he gains access to stormlight/ surges without swearing the oaths, I think that's something Hoid would be very interested in.
  5. I was thinking about Hoid and a way for him to get all of the Surgebinding abilities, because this is Hoid and no doubt he does want them all. As has been discussed, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for him to swear oaths to a spren of every order. I wonder if he is going to try and find a deadeye spren of each order and try to revive them, similar as to how Adolin is doing with Maya. Granted this theory depends heavily on how the whole Adolin/Maya relationship plays out. My thought is that when you revive a deadeye spren you can almost bypass the oaths. The Nahel bond is a spren who is attracted to a person who has specific traits, while this bond seems fundamentally different. I’m think that they’ll be able to form a new type of bond with access to a new (albeit related) form of Surgebinding. I don’t think that it would be very difficult for Hoid to revive different deadeyes, seeing how Adolin did it pretty much on accident, and Hoid would actually know what he is doing, plus Hoid has ready access to the CR, which would probably make it easier. I’ve also seen a WoB that said Hoid was very interested in one of the Kholins, and if this were the case I think Hoid would be very interested in Adolin and how his bond with Maya works out. There are probably several hundred things wrong with this theory, so be sure rip to shreds for me
  6. I was thinking about how Kelsier got his physical body back as well as Feruchemical abilities. I imagine that it would take (at least) one spike to get his physical body back, but it could conceivably take several. Then you would need 16 feruchemical spikes and it’s possible that you would need 16 Allomantic spikes as well, depending on whether or not getting his physical body back restored his Mistborn status. So we’re looking at anywhere from 17-35 spikes. That’s a lot of spikes, and not something that I think Kelsier would want to subject himself to, as the more spikes you have the easier it would be for a shard to influence you, and Kelsier is way too careful to have such an obvious weakness. Also I don’t think that Spook would be willing to kill so many innocent people, and finding that many Feruchemists/Allomancers in the specific variety needed that were criminals would be almost impossible. My thought is this: Kelsier used his time in the CR convincing himself that he was a Fullborn. Then, when he got his body back he used a spike to get the Feruchemical ability of Identity (I think that’s F-aluminum, but I could be wrong on that) and then Compounds that Identity to “heal” his spirit web and turn himself into a Fullborn. Not only is this a much more humane way of doing things, it also brings the total number of spikes needed to 2-5, which gives Kelsier the indepedence he would want.
  7. Hahaha so long as I’m not the first causality in your uprising! I can certainly see your reasoning, but there are several prequels out there that are wonderful, such as The Hobbit and (though many will probably disagree with me on this) New Spring. I think the key to making a good prequel is to enhance the characters, not to advance the story line. I definitely understand why you would hesitant to have a novel about Alendi’s entire Well of Ascension plot, but even a novella detalining a smaller plot point (such as Alendi accepting himself as the Hero of Ages) that we have no details about other than that it happened could give some insight into the log book in TFE and Kwaans’ metal plate in WoA, which could enhance those reading of Era 1.
  8. I have no basis for thinking this is possible, but being able to control the size of a copper cloud or speed bubble. If a mistborn could turn on court, limit the cloud to him/herself that could be incredibly useful in concealing yourself while still being able to locate and identify other allomancers. Similar thing with the speed bubble, if you could anchor it to yourself, and restrict the size to encompass your body and nothing else, you've basically F-steel, which is freaking awesome
  9. Just finished a reread of WoA and I decided that I need a novel/series telling the Alendi/Kwaan story. You get so many hints of awesome stuff happening and I want to know more. Also, Alendi to me seems like someone who has Vin's compassion mixed with Kelsier's brutality and I think that's a fascinating juxtaposition that would be very interesting to get some screen time.
  10. I did not know this, and that is super cool! Human bodies are amazing!
  11. This could be a little bit skewed because most of the pewter burning scenes we have come from Vin while she was burning tin, but she often talks about the sense of balance that she gains when burning pewter and when she and Kelsier are running to the caves in TFE she remarks about how without pewter she would never be able to maintain that speed without tripping. Sorry, I don’t have my books in front of me, otherwise I’d be more specific.
  12. But knowing where your body is is proprioception, with specific sensory proprioceptors, which should also be enhanced by tin. This is an interesting thing that I hadn’t considered, but I’m still not sure if that could account for the drastic balance increases that we see in someone burning pewter.
  13. I was just thinking about how A-Pewter enhances someone’s physical strength, speed etc. including balance. This seems wrong to me. It seems like balance should be enhanced by A-Tin which enhances all of the other senses. I know it makes pewter a lot more useful (ie being able to sprint for 2 days straight without tripping), but it still seems to me that balance should be enhanced by tin, not pewter. On a side note, I would have loved to see a savant Spook with a crazy sense of balance doing some crazy Assassins Creed type stuff.
  14. I was thinking something similar as far as shardblades cutting through Knights Radiant, I just don’t know the corresponding level of Investiture between Breaths and Stormlight and if Azure would be considered far more Invested than Kaladin or Szeth.
  15. I was just thinking that in the later books I feel it rather likely that we’re going to see Azure fighting some Knights Radiant (either Skybreakers or Dustbringers who sided with Taravangian) and I was wondering how careful she would have to be with their shardblades. We know that Invested objects are harder for Shardblade to cut through, and I would assume that Azure has quite a few breaths available to her (at least enough to make her immortal, 5th heightening I think?) which is pretty invested, not to mention that she’ll probably have Awakened cloaks and ropes and whatnot that they’d have to get through before getting to her. Just an idle thought I had. Second question, what would happen to the Breaths stored in a cloak if it did get cut by shardblade?
  16. Now this is a pretty crazy out there theory that someone will definitely prove wrong, but none of my friends read these books and I needed someplace to share this thought. What if Oathbringer is the Sibling? I could be mistaken here, but I’m pretty sure that there was only one Bondsmith at the time of the Recreance, but I don’t think it ever tells us which spren is the one who is bonded. I think that the Bondsmith was bonded to the Sibling, then broke their oath like the other Knights Radiant, leaving the sibling behind as a shardblade. This could explain why The Stormfather refuses to be summoned as a blade. He remembers what happened, and is sure that Dalinar will break his oath, leaving him dead, which I don’t think would happen unless he were manifesting in the physical realm as a blade. It could also help explain why Oathbringer doesn’t hate Dalinar as much, as Dalinar is probably someone who could have forged a bond with him in the first place. I also like the thought of a Bondsmith blade being named Oathbringer.
  17. Well in that case, they’re both dragons, just because dragons are cool.
  18. IMO the rest of the series is definitely fantastic, but there’s not much that can contend with that chapter. Definitely one of the best chapters in all literature!
  19. There are so many epic moments in this series, but here goes: Mat discovers his luck in Tar Valon Mat spars with Gawyn and Galad Rand sparring with Tam in aMoL Duami’s Wells is just one of the coolest scenes ever written My all time favorite part of the series though, that makes me cry every time I read it and sometimes when I think about it is “One man still fights...” Lan is just the coolest.
  20. Just my personal thoughts on the “slog.” It’s not so much a slog as it is a change in focus. The first 6-7 books are more action packed, and then the action takes a bit of a breather and it’s more political. When I was younger I found those books hard to read, going so far as to skip certain PoV, as I only cared about the action sequences, but on my last WoT reread I really enjoyed those books and didn’t think there was much of a slog at all. But really, the Wheel of Time series is incredible and is what really gave me a love of reading, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
  21. Well that effectively destroys my theory Is it confirmed anywhere that all the shards were from Yolen? I know next to nothing about the shards or Yolen in general, and I am absolutely dreadful at finding any kind of relevant WoB.
  22. Just a random thought I had while driving to work, but I think that Tanavast and Cultivation’s vessel where originally par she did (or singers or listeners, however they were called back in the days of the Shattering). It makes sense to me that they would want to go an Invest in their home world and try to make it a better place. The biggest flaw in this theory is that Tanavast has a much more Lighteyes ring to it than a parsh-sounding name. This could be explained by humans changing the way they named people when they switched from following Odium to Honor, and vice-versa with the parsh, and everyone knows that language is incredibly fluid and changes all the time.
  23. I’m currently doing a re-read of MB, and I was thinking about how Allomancers can’t push or pull on metals inside or piercing a persons body. I’m assuming this is because of the innate investiture that all people have, and how it’s really hard to manipulate (couldn’t think of a better word, sorry) objects that are invested. So if an Allomancer were to go to Nalthis, would they be able to push on the metals inside the body of a Drab, because they have no more inherit investiture? Because if that is a possibility, they could essentially turn in to bloodbenders (from Avatar) and control Drabs by pushing and pulling on the iron in their blood, and I think that would be terriffying, but also pretty cool.
  24. The first time I read Warbreaker I was incredibly disappointed, and I had no desire to re-read it ever. It was the only Brandon Sanderson book that I really did not like in the slightest. It was only after I read Oathbringer that I figured I should actually read it again to refresh my memory. The second time, reading not as a solo novel but as a part of a greater whole, I thoroughly enjoyed it and find that I cannot wait for Nightblood to be released.
  25. If we’re looking at this from an Adonalsium point of view, it makes perfect sense that his name would be Odium instead of simply Hatred. If Adonalsium was similar (which to me at least he appears to be) to our worlds general definition of “God,” then there would be a lot of people who hated him because of the things he did. So it seems like this shard would be a combination of the hatred that “God” would feel for things like sin, as well as the hatred that people would feel towards him for allowing some terrible things to happen.
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