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  1. Well, she slaughtered her folowers shortly after gaining her powers, so it seems likely that she accidentally revealed her weakness to them. Her primary character attribute seems to be judgementalism. I still maintain my theory that Epic weaknesses have a connection to something embarrassing or otherwise humbling to the Epic. In my experience judgemental people react poorly to reminders of their own mistakes. My theory: Regalia commited some small crime/sin as a child or teanager and her weakness is some detail related to what she did. For example, if her crime was shoplifting a bar of soap then her weakness would be bar soap.
  2. I am not a lawyer so everything I am going to say is based on hasty internet research. If someone else can clarity my points I would welcome the correction. I am not so sure about the insanity plea. Steven Leeds has always maintained that he is sane in spite of his hallucinations. Even if he could prove it in court I don't think he would want to because it would mean admitting that he was not in control. Also the definition of legal insanity is given by the McNaughton rule: Steven knew exactly what he was doing as well as the consequences. He knew that he was depriving several of the stockholders of the company of valuable funds. He may hallucinate, but by the legal definition he was sane at the time. Furthermore, pleading insanity is a very unattractive option. It means instead of serving a fixed amount of time for your sentence you go to a mental health facility until the doctors there say you are no longer a danger to society. In many cases this ends up being twice as long as the proscribed prison time for an offender. In short, (if I may abuse the language for a moment) by taking an insanity defense he would go to not-jail for a million years. I would also like to point out that Steven is not a very sympathetic defendant. He is rich, and he does confidential "odd jobs". A prosecutor can use that to imply that Steven's job is to fix problems when the law gets in the way, and she would not be too far off the mark. That, combined with his recent press puts Steven in a very difficult situation.
  3. He is not an aspect, so it may not count but was the security guard Moshe from the first book based on Brandon's editor? I guess I just assumed that he was, since Moshe said his job was "To watch for people doing stupid things and then stopping them." It just seemed to close to the job description of an editor.
  4. A small update to the theory of the original post. In Skin Deep we learn that Steven has a "White Room", or a room as blank as possible for interacting with most/all of his aspects at once. (Sort of like a conference room, but with less personality.) Nothing that bad happened there, but the tone of the narrative suggested it could. In fact there were two instances where Steven had to correct behavior from one of the aspects. The first was when JC shot the ceiling in order to call the meeting to order. He rebuked JC saying "I will need to imagine the hole from now on." suggesting that there was something taxing about maintaining the illusion. The other time Audrey wrote in the air, and Leeds had to imagine that she was writing on a glass pane in order to keep up consistency. Bad things don't happen when too many aspects are gathered together, bad things happen when his brain cannot keep up with the illusion. The more aspects, the more complex the illusion and the more difficult it is to maintain.
  5. This was already alluded to by Ookla the Infinite in this post, but Steven broke federal law in a very visible, and unsympathetic way. Lets summarize the events of Skin Deep from the perspective of the Securities Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. Steven Leeds (a professional odd-jobs man) is given a large share of I3 in exchange for a fairly small service. (2-3 days of private detecting) Leeds then spreads rumors about one of the rivals of I3 through his own personal rumor mill. Leeds buys the rival at a steep discount as a result of the rumors that were spread. After a few days the fears provoked by the rumors prove to be unjustified, and Leeds sells his stock to the primary holder of I3, making a huge profit along the way. If I were a federal investigator with these facts I would immediately suspect that the detective work was a smoke screen. I would suspect that Leeds was hired to acquire the rival company in a monopolizing move. As I looked into the issue I would see that the "crime" Leeds was hired to investigate was perpetrated by someone with close ties to I3 (the mother of one of its employees) and was committed in such a way as to leave nobody indicted for theft. I looked at the FTC webpage and found that and These crimes are punishable by I know that Leeds's life was on the line, and his actions were justified. However, as a federal investigator I do not have access to that information. I would be asking for a warrant within the hour.
  6. I just saw it in an older post. It seems to have fixed itself now. Thanks.
  7. As far as I can tell it still does http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/4263-legion-ii/?p=82185 Edit: The comment linked to did the auto-correct when I first made this post. Since then, the auto-correct no longer seems to happen.
  8. So, the word was censored to deliberately make life difficult for the newcomer? What reason are you referencing here? I think I get the joke. However every joke has a cost. Sometimes the cost is small, (such as relieving the tension in the room) and sometimes the cost is larger (such as loosing the respect of all in attendance.) The point of my post was to illustrate the cost of this particular joke and add my voice to those that think that the entertainment is not worth the cost.
  9. While I appreciate the effort to keep the forums clean, and respect the rights of the administrators to censor language in the forum that they host, I am concerned by the conversion of the word <Christian Underworld> to calamity. Suppose a new 17th Sharder read a post about the short story "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of calamity" and decided to find the story by doing an internet search on that phrase. They would not find a link a webpage discussing the Dangerous Women anthology, but instead would only get links to the 17th shard forum. Is there a way to get the filter to ignore the word if it is prefaced by the phrase "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of "? In the mean time, we need to find a way to prevent Brandon from naming any more of his works with swears in the titles. Otherwise we might end up with a forum thread discussing the new short story "Merciful Domi Shatters the Glass Storming Harmony"
  10. I wouldn't worry about not liking the book. Nobody has ever written a book that everyone likes. Steelheart is probably just not your kind of book. Steelheart is a very different kind of book then the rest of Brandon's works. It is a 'big problem' story, and is probably the least character driven of all of Brandon's published works. Additionally the book is considerably less subtle in terms of plot and character. This felt intentional to me. The book is targeted at a younger audience that likes superhero stories. That kind of audience is generally accustomed to this style of writing. I loved Steelheart (hence my username) but I am sure you are not the only one that didn't like it, and there is nothing wrong with that.
  11. I assumed that when Wane said "sleep it off" he didn't literally mean sleep as in unconscious, just that he planned on doing nothing but store Feruchemical gold and vedge out.
  12. I assumed that aluminum always had the properties displayed in AoL, we just didn't see them because aluminum is so expensive in a pre industrial society. Let's take stock of the properties of aluminum: 1 Alomatic-Vin burns it near the end of TFE. 2 Feruchemy-This is never demonstrated, but every Alomatic metal is also Feruchemal. I suspect if Sazed know about this metal earlier he may have had a reserve of his old faith to draw on in HoA. 3 Blocking alomancy-I assume this is the property referred to in the original post. My feeling is that here is no reason to believe that this property did not exist in the first trilogy, and it does noyt seem to be the sort of thing Sazed would feel the need to do. Sazed feels enough compassion for people that I can see him changing the snapping rule out of a desire to eliminate the beatings, but I don't see the motivation for creating an alomancy blocking metal.
  13. The shavings vs. beads thing seems to be an expedient the main characters use rather than an actual rule. If I remember correctly, Vin used a bunch of pewter beads in WoA. I see no reason any of the other metals cannot be cast into beads for Alomatic use. The primary advantage with shavings is that whoever prepares the vial has control over how much metal goes into a dose. With beads it is the metallurgist who decides how much steel a coinshot needs. Also I don't know if there are many people with the audacity to try to pick the pocket of a Mistborn. To paraphrase a movie I like: Let me see if understand. You believe that this noble, one of the wealthiest, most influential men in the final empire is secretly a wizard who spends his free time stabbing people with glass daggers, and your plan is to pickpocket this person? Good luck with that.
  14. However TLR did his age trick it would need to be something that Marsh could do as well. This suggests it is not a case of TLR modifying his body so he doesn't need sleep. My money is on the theory that it is possible to tap youth while unconscious if not tapping it would kill you.
  15. I know that I am theoretically the target audience for this sort of thing. Unfortunately, playing a game and watching "let's play" videos are two very different experiences. I feel that some essential context is lost in the transition. Specifically I lose one of my main reasons to care. When I play a game I want the main character to succeed because his/her/its goals are my goals as long as I am trying to win. (Except for those games that play with that expectation, but that is a whole different can of worms.) This is one of the greatest assets video games have as a storytelling medium. When I watch a video I only have the personalities ofthe characters to get me invested. I don't think I can experience the Infinity Blade story properly without actually playing the game. I thank you for your efforts, and I am sorry to have been so obstinate. I really do appreciate that you went out of your way to help me enjoy the story. (Upvote)
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