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Hi there, I'm a big fan of Brandon's literature and have been for the last year out of the loop. I am back on this website reading discussion ever since hearing that Oathbringer is almost ready. That got tons of good memories back in my mind and got me thinking of the cosmere. I was wondering what has happened lately with Brandon? It sounds like he's released some new stuff since Calamity, what books have I missed?

Yeah for me I find Warbreaker most underrated. I find a decent amount of fans saying its dull and unimportant, while criticizing the magic system. Elantris on the other hand is hyped even though it is quite dull next to most of Brandon's stories. Gary Stu Raoden, Mary Sue Sarene, Hrathen was the only strong character. Boring politics, boring magic system, very basic shardworld. It gets all this hype, to be fair Brandon wrote this when he was less experienced, and I'm sure the elantris sequel will be much better due to his improvements in writing. I don't get why Elantris is so popular, despite almost every Cosmere book being better than it.

Self explanatory title, which do you think deserves more credit, and which book do you think is considered better than it is?

That's a shame to hear, I feel like Nalthis is very unexplored, with a lot of things that can be done. It seems like a trilogy would be a good amount for it. I can't see things just wrapped up for good in the sequel (Presuming that nightblood is like 500 pages long). There's not a ton more to do with the magic, but it seems like there are other countries, lands, and more lore to be uncovered. I would like to see a larger storyline built up and concluded, to set vasher on his path to worldhopping.

When I read Warbreaker, I really enjoyed the book and its characters, since then I have been eagerly awaiting the sequel, Nightblood. I have been hearing that after Brandon writes Nightblood, he won't be doing much else with the world of Nalthis. I find that a lot of this world feels unexplored, and there is plenty of cool stuff that can be done. I am really hoping we will at least end up with one trilogy on this shardworld, or maybe more. Does anyone know for a fact, if Nightblood is the last Nalthis book, and that there will never be many books on this shardworld? I really hope its not the case though.

Plot armour? Nah, I'm kidding, but I don't have a clue. I guess we have to read and find out.

So basically if you can compound tin, you are Daredevil?

I think Marsh had it the worst with Ruin.

Didn't Wayne or Marasi talk to a merchant selling apples for an expensive price, and they asked if the merchant laced the apples with atium,which would justify the expensive pricing?

So basically you could essentially sap anyone because somehow your luck would allow it. A coinshot is flying up in the sky, lands on a building, looks down on you. Suddenly a hurricane whips up and tosses him to the ground, he then pulls out two guns and fires away, but somehow as you calmly walk towards him, about to wipe his metals from him, his bullets keep missing, and his guns get jammed. Would double chromium be that stupidly overpowered?

Isn't the trilogy following wax and wayne about a mistborn serial killer? I also heard hoid will be a major protagonist of the space opera mistborn trilogy.

Exactly! All the stuff he could do, that guy had way too much time on his hands. He really procrastinated a ton didn't he? Although thinking about it, are you able to store and use more than one feruchemic attribute at a time? If he removed the metalminds keeping him immortal, he's obviously dead. He would then never be able to try other stuff because removing the metalminds would destroy him. Do you know if you can use more than one set of metalminds at once?

I love how the Lord Ruler held all allomantic powers as a mistborn, and he could compound everything and anything. All the different stuff he could do when he felt like it.

There have probably been dozens of these threads, unfortunately I have not found any recently, and with the release of the long awaited mistborn sequel, I think this is more relevant than ever.

Mat Cauthon is a chromium compounder who worldhopped to Randland.

So I was looking through the different metals along with their powers, and I see that Chromium will wipe away the powers of other allomancers. So what if you have a Leecher who also possesses feruchemical abilities and has steel metalminds. To leech someone, you must burn the chromium and then touch them. Its almost like a game of tag. Give a leecher steel metalminds, and they will now be able to store their physical speed. How infuriating would that be if your opponent could just come up to you before you could even move, and they just get rid of all your metal and render you helpless. You might have other flasks of metal, but they could just swipe it with their speed. It would be even worse, if this Leecher Steelrunner twinborn was an expert hand to hand combatant, and an expert with weapons. Even if they ran out of speed, they could then just beat you down in a one on one duel. I think someone like this would be the ultimate constable to have around, just use them as your secret weapon to effortlessly subdue any criminals with allomantic abilities. If one of these criminals had feruchemical abilities, could chromium wipe away the stored attributes as well? I am not actually sure of how that one works, if anyone knows it would be much appreciated. The best allomantic metals to fight this fiend would be steel or atium, just hover in the air and run away, or use atium to get a slight advantage that probably couldn't save you anyway. Or if you are lucky enough to be a steelrunner, you can play an epic game of tag.

That is legitimately the same reason for me.

After looking through the Ars Arcanum and thinking of combinations, I wanted to ask this question. If you could choose to be a twinborn, which two abilities would you have? Ps: Compounding is allowed Personally If I could choose, I would be a steel compounder, that combination is my favourite one out there. Other cool compounds would be Pewter, Gold, or Zinc

Do you think we will get another book like Mitosis except this short story focuses on the aftermath of Firefight as it takes place between Firefight and Calamity? We have not heard mention of anything like this so I am wondering if we will get another short story or if it will just be a wait until calamity releases. With that being said does anyone also wonder if we will get a third short story which takes place after Calamity?

Yeah you sort of did, although people who know him say he has been great in roles before Littlefinger. I read the maze runner trilogy years back and though I didn't like the first two I loved the third one. I watched the film and I enjoyed it, will watch the second. Then one day I am at the cinema seeing some movie and I see a trailer for the sequel and then I see the antagonist and I think "Stormfather! Is that CIA?" Is that really him? I went home and looked it up and I nearly jumped for joy that Aidan Gillen would play the antagonist. To make matters even greater, giancarlo esposito will be playing a supporting character in it. Gus and CIA both in a dystopian novel adaptation together. It is beautiful. This here is for everyone, if you watch videos on youtube of the plane scene you get the most amazing comments and conversations involving baneposts. There are also a ton of awesome banepost videos to watch. With that being said I present to you the greatest analysis of Master Nolan's deep and memorable plane scene (by the way nolan actually said the plane scene was his favourite scene to put together out of every film he has made). Oh and Quiver check out those videos on youtube, Banestar is quite good, I am CIA is also a great one. Just browse and you will thank me for it. WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I PRESENT TO YOU THE ANALYSIS OF A LIFETIME! CIA is himself experiencing a fight club-esque identity crisis. doesn't the mantra "i'm CIA" strike you as the ramblings of a mad man? he uses it to cling to what he thinks, what he HOPES he is. he wants a purpose. he can't be a monolithic singularity like batman, bane or raja ghoul. we see his instability when he projects it onto his prisoners. the perfect canvases with their silent tongues and blank faces. "who paid you to grab doctor puddle?". as we all know, CIA is himself being paid to grab doctor puddle. he's questioning authority and allegiance. "he didn't fly so good": here he refers to himself in the third person, in an out of body experience. he knows he's slipping, he's doing poorly, this plane trip isn't going to plan. CIA didn't fly so good. "a lot of loyalty for a hired gun". why is he loyal to the CIA, so much so that he considers them one and the same? and of course, "why does he wear the mask?". CIA doesn't know any more, he doesn't know why he rises every day and wears the mask of a steely-eyed and hardened CIA agent. and that, my friends, is why he becomes his own bane. think for a moment. CIA and his underlings enter the plane with doctor pavlova, bane, and the mercs. we're seeing all the events from the eyes of CIA. all we really know is that CIA enters and bane leaves. do we know bane entered? of course not! he wore the bag, and CIA/bane left so many corpses on the plane, it isn't hard for him to imagine he is finally free of his law-keeping vessel, having left it with his brother, a representation of the shedding of his other identity. he embraces the bane of his existence. coupled with the heavy insectile metamorphosis imagery (shedding of the wings, the body of the plane hanging like a cocoon from which bane springs and flys out anew, the blood-sucking and the mosquito man, the body bag being opened like the amniotic sac of an embryo) i think it's fair to say this is entirely canon. He's actually shooting at God, you see, the entire scene is an existential masterpiece detailing mans troubled connection with God in the 21st century (bravo nolan). When the scene opens, CIA, having just acquired prisoners (in this case, the supposed "scientific" knowledge that there is no supreme deity) he boards them on his plane and takes off, assuming the new role as God of his own world (that's why he's in the sky). However, once he begins questioning these prisoners he becomes distressed that none of them answer, mimicking how man can never be comforted by science in the way he can be comforted by God. When he shoots out of the plane, he does so out of misguided anger, furious that the scientific knowledge he has coveted for so long has not given him the rest or respite he desires. He shoots at no one, and everyone. When he gets to his last piece of evidence, in this case the prophet known as Bane, he speaks back. But instead of offering answers he only causes CIA to question more. "If I took that mask off would you die?" Is in fact CIAs attempt to reason with the unreasonable, "It would be extremely painful" is the response meant to convey the pain of having a scientific worldview crash down around you and be replaced by the knowledge that there is a creator. The famous “Big guy” dialogue was written by Nolan to ensure that the viewer understood the delicate juxtaposition between those who claim to preach truth, and those who are actually enlightened. The scene ends when Bane calls his almighty father down from heaven to crash the plane of the heathen (while saving Dr. Pavel for being a believer, but reminding him that the time for fear, in this case hell, comes later on judgement day.) This scene made me a Christian. J

I personally could not stand the writing and dialogue for Lift, I hope he lessens that down and removes it entirely eventually as she gets older. Otherwise it may be extremely painful to read a whole book about her with a flashback sequence. The thing is though, when she is actually more serious, her character is far more interesting. When she is talking like a moron, her character feels much more dumbed down and obnoxious. I tend to get a lot of hate for calling out the dialogue with Lift as bad, but it just does not feel like it fits with the story and its forced beyond belief.

It is an online meme that makes fun of the awkward dialogue during the scene in which Bane crashes the CIA plane in the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises. Read up on it here. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/baneposting Would anyone else accept Aidan Gillen as Hoid in a stormlight adaptation?

Does anyone think any Hotheads will show up here to complain about baneposting?

Szeth is headed to Shinovar to exact justice upon the people who named him truthless. If I am correct, the Everstorm is less than a day away from Shinovar? What will Szeth and Nalan do if their plans for the week get cancelled by a storm?

I guess I was just imagining if CIA was in the cosmere as a worldhopper and I was hoping some people on here could banepost. so let me ask you guys a question then. Marsh and Sazed are about to fight each other in the Well of Ascension, Sazed then asks Marsh "If I pull out that spike would you die?" What would Marsh say in response?