Inkthinker

Maybe a Shardbow or Shardgun would just straight up shoot bolts of Stormlight-infused energy. As a bow, it would look something like Hank's weapon from the old D&D cartoon. As a gun, it would resemble (in effect) a pretty common blaster weapon.

I've only seen a brief video clip from atop a bridge, and a single 360-view image from the bottom of a chasm, with a chull. I'm not loving their designs, but I'm also highly biased in that regard. It's not that I think they must use the book designs, but I think they can do better than what they have. Nevertheless, I'm interested in seeing what they do next. I would think that if there's a regular post for this, it would be in the Stormlight subforum, but I ended up here as well after searching for just such a thread, so... ?

This is super fun to watch.

It's the most complicated part of the problem, isn't it. I'd prefer some system by which you could build and rig simple 2D characters in advance, allowing for unique and custom chalklings... then you'd have to call them up by some means. For practical purposes, probably some sort of drag-and-drop system with a timer for "drawing" them, with more complex versions requiring greater time. Though it's also possible that if you were playing a game in which the Player Avatar is a book character like Fitch or Melody, then they'd have a library of chalkling designs to pull from. Programming them is another level of complexity, but I think you could probably work it out through a series of preset command symbols which you'd line up in order and then execute. The strategy lies in proper time and resource management, something that ought to be familiar with RTS players.

It's worth noting that kandra I'm not sure if one could produce the eggs to be a viable mother, but I bet a kandra mimicking a reproductive system could certainly act as a surrogate.

Hey all, Doing a bit of work for the MAG and I'm trying to get a handle on the appearance of boxings and clips. From the books I know that boxings are gold and so named for the image of Kredik Shaw (the Box) on the back. Copper clips I'm not finding much on, though I'd been thinking they might be so named because merchants clip them into pieces for change (like pieces of eight), giving us quarter-clips and half-clips and eight-clips and sharp edges for punching through with a Push. What else do we know about boxings and clips?

Storm storming storms, storms storming storm. Points for style? I bet we could build that out further. But it has to keep working. Plus right now it's a ketek. -EDIT- My bad, not a ketek, doesn't form distinct concepts. Just a palindrome.

sigh... Dammit. I hope you're proud of yourself. I haven't illustrated a silly kid's joke in 15 years. I left that life behind, man...

Jak gets around, but he likes to embellish. Nevertheless, the additional testimony of Handywrm and Miss Dramali suggest some veracity to his claims. It's not so much that he doesn't go places and do things, it's just that he never lets facts get in the way of a good story. I find Wayne and his abilities more interesting without the need for some supernatural explanation. He's not magic, he's just very good.

There you go, good catch. So then presumably there is pork and pork products, including... pig dairy. Which is, apparently, similar to cow in terms of protein, fat and lactose. Learn something every day.

...I'm thinking very hard about what it would be if NOT chull. We have some fauna that's yet to be introduced, and some of it might be farmed for meat... but nothing on Roshar is particularly analogous to Terran fauna except for a few exceptions. It's a pretty alien world. And it's all very well and good to say that it's just... "essence of meat" and not any meat in particular, but I know Brandon is enough of a steak fanatic to appreciate the differences between different cuts of beef, never mind the varieties of chicken and pork. And that's just the staples, humans farm some interesting meats. Still haven't tried snake in anything but jerky form, and that could'a been fake snake. Gator tastes neat. Squid is interesting. I imagine chull tastes like something between beef and lobster, if only because it's basically a bull-sized crab. But I don't think there's any reason for soulcast meat to taste like chull in particular. And if it's based on the Essence of (presumably human) blood, then... Chicken may or may not taste like chicken, depending on whether or not the chicken is a chicken. Fish is presumably fish. So far as I know, the variety is sufficient to cover whatever you'd like to imagine. But it's still fish. There are no appearances of pigs in the books so far, and the word "pig" does not even appear in WoR, but we do have the mention of a "Mabrow Pigherder" in WoK (NOOK, 577). I'm not sure what to say about that, but I'm curious enough that it's going into my box of Brandon questions. I'll ask about it next time I get a chance, but that might be a while, we're in Mistborn stuff right now.

Peter Ahlstrom, Brandon's editorial assistant.

I seem to recall the mention of an Ascension Day (?), the anniversary of when Spook and the surviving population left the caves and emerged into the remade world.

Better odds that Peter will see forum posts.

Well DANG, that took no time at all to fund. Nice! Dice guaranteed, now it's all about sweetening it up.

I've held those dice. They are mighty fine dice. Good deal too. Shame for international orders, but shipping on these babies won't be easy, they're not lightweight. It's good to see an option for overseas fans to bundle their resources for sets.

Wax wouldn't normally use aluminum bullets because he Pushes on bullets all the time. He's either boosting their punch or he's using them as custom-placed anchors for his own propulsion. I'm pretty sure the balance to aluminum weapons is that they're not as durable as those made of steel. Barrels and cylinders, especially, are prone to damage. An aluminum pistol require more maintenance and upkeep than one made of steel. You can read up on the various costs and benefits of different pistol materials here: http://www.chuckhawks.com/pistol_construction_materials.htm It's worth noting that we don't use aluminum for barrels or cylinders in RL guns because it's not really strong enough for the explodey bits. In RL guns aluminum is pretty much exclusively used for the frame, but there's a bit of handwavery for the books. For the purposes of the MAG or other experiments, it's fair to assume a full-aluminum weapon is easily damaged in ways that make it inaccurate or inoperable, possibly even dangerous to the wielder (a cylinder out of alignment with the barrel could cause a potentially explosive failure). In addition to being expensive, they're just not as durable (or, most likely, as accurate) as a steel weapon. They really have only a couple benefits: they're very light and they're allomantically inert.

Technically possible is not the same as budgetarily feasible. Avatar happened because James Cameron has tons of backing and owns much of the technology he used to make that film. If James Cameron falls in love with Stormlight (it could happen)... As for the narrow canyons of southern Utah, tricking scale is not so major a feat as creating CG environments from scratch.

Location shoots for down inside the chasms in Utah, places like Antelope Canyon. Above-ground shoots probably a combination of location shots with matte backgrounds and studio shoots. https://www.google.com/search?q=antelope+canyon&safe=off&biw=1590&bih=959&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Lfw1VMHyAYWdygSN7oD4DQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ It's one of the reasons I don't think Stormlight would work well in live-action... too many amazing environments eating up your budget. Game of Thrones works primarily because they can find locations that are equivalent to the locations in Westeros. I don't think that's as easy a trick for Stormlight, where almost every aspect of the environment is otherworldly.

Sure is. If you'd like to see the cover art without the cover elements, I've uploaded it to my DA page. http://inkthinker.deviantart.com/art/Mistborn-RPG-Alloy-of-Law-Cover-477270366

I'm pretty sure it's not until this book that the connection between spren and Shardblades is understood. People assume they're unrelated, and I expect Shallan may have done the same, at least until Tyn forced her hand...

I subscribe... that boy's got a dark future, I can sense it. Though I hadn't considered the contract as deep-seeded foreshadowing... but that's so Sanderson.

https://soundcloud.com/vihartvihart/sleep-my-baby-dear-shallans-lullaby-from-words-of-radiance-by-brandon-sanderson I think I got here before anyone beat me to it. A performance of Shallan's lullaby, by Vi Hart. It's as haunting as the scenes it accompanies. I don't think it counts as spoilers unless you know what happens as she sings this song... then I defy you not to feel a bit of chill.

All the artwork is on his site. You can stare at 'em looking for clues and cryptography while you listen to the audiobook.

Every illustration in a Stormlight book represents a real-world document. And the funny thing about documents, especially documents in a society that's semi-literate, is that they're not always accurate to the finest detail. Sometimes people mess things up or make mistakes, and we take advantage of that in the pieces we do for the book. Isaac's page is based on similar documents published by fighting schools in Europe a few hundred years ago, sometimes called "fechtbuchs" (fight books). They're often a little interpretive, meant to serve as a study aid rather than as an honest representation of movement. Shallan's pages are (unfortunately for me) seen as more accurate because of the nature of her powers, but she's not infallible and she's not always drawing a "Memory", sometimes she's just working in the ways of a natural illustrator. Lastly, she draws as an observer of a subject rather than an expert IN the subject, so sometimes she misses out on a detail because she doesn't recognize it's importance. I know a lot of that boils down to basically weaseling loopholes. Part of playing with Brandon's toys is that I have to be careful about what I say regarding behind-the-scenes bits. I expect to speak with Brandon fairly soon, and I'll see what he wants me to say about the stances then. In the meantime, you guys are doing pretty good with the deductive reasoning so far.