The Mad Reader

Is there only one of it?

When you are having a conversation with your mom (who has read sanderson) and your brother (who has not), and it goes something like this: Brother: Thats not the point! Mom: Knives. Sharp knives are pointy. Me: Pencils are pointy. Me: You know what else is pointy? Hemalurgic spikes. Mom: *laughs*

When someone is talking about branches of an organization and you start wondering, if I am part of a branch, and a part of a branch is a stick, does that mean I am a stick?

I'm pretty sure that only someone from Scadrial has the spiritual DNA required for allomantic powers. So you'd need someone from Scadrial to become a Drab first, if that's even possible. I've actually been wondering for a while if someone from another planet could give up a Breath on Nalthis, or if you'd need to be from Nalthis originally to use Breaths. And I agree that Nightblood would kill a drab who unsheathed him, probably faster than he'd kill a regular person since he wouldn't have a breath to use up first.

Maybe Radiants have the same color as the gemstone, but lighter, so a Skybreaker would have grey eyes for a black stone. I think that they looked at the actual lightness of the eyes to determine rank, so there are darkeyes with green eyes, and lighteyes with green eyes, but the lighteyes's eyes would be a lighter shade of green. Its the same as tan eyes = lighteyes, but brown eyes = darkeyes. I wonder how they determine what shade exactly is considered lighteyed. I guess they'd go by what your parents are, but what if your mother was lighteyed and your father was darkeyed, and you had medium green eyes?

Dalinar's book was only going to be called Highprince of War when it was going to be the second book. Whichever book ends up being Dalinar's now will have a different title.

I wonder what Kaladin's parents think has happened to him. What was the official story after he refused the shards? Do they know he's a slave, or think he's dead? Did anyone ever send them a message when he was promoted?

Yeah, my sense of what's a normal book length has totally shifted. I used to think 500+ pages was really long, and now most of the books I read are over 500 pages. And instead of thinking 1000 pages is totally insane, my favorite book is over 1000 pages. What can I say, I like big books and I cannot lie.

When you regularly say "I am offend" to people when they upset you, even when you know they won't get the reference. And then have to stop yourself from adding "No apology. Boots!" because that part sounds weird to people who don't understand.

If I recall correctly, Snapping is still required, but the threshold is lower, so nothing quite as traumatic is required in order to snap.

When you're watching Avatar and you realize that Airbending powers and windrunning powers sorta do the same thing, and really want to see a fight between Kaladin and Aang. And then later have an in depth conversation about who would win in a fight, a mistborn or the avatar (Assuming no atium or avatar state).

Ah. I hadn't seen that one before. I was thinking of a different one altogether.

Or when you look at your family and are very disappointed to realize that your older sister would outrank you, since she has blue eyes and you have brown.

My bad. I think I just misinterpreted your mathematical notation. If I'm thinking of the same WoB you are, I interpreted it differently. I thought it said that an allomancer outside the train who created a bubble, would have the bubble relative to the planet even if a train went through it. Therefore, if the allomancer is inside the train, the bubble could be relative to the train. I actually discussed this with my mom last night, and she suggested the lower limit might come from the shape of the bubble and what you want to include in it. So if Wayne wants himself and Wax, he needs as much empty space behind him as the distance Wax is away from him. So when Wayne is making a bubble around himself, he's limited by his own height. Also, if the bubbles are perfect circles, I wonder if they stick out underground. So if someone was on the floor below Marasi when she makes a bubble (because her bubbles are bigger), would they also be caught in it? Maybe the bubbles are just dome shaped, instead of sphere shaped, and this isn't an issue. When you leave a bubble you create, it bursts the bubble. I don't think one person can create more than one bubble at a time, but you could theoretically have multiple people overlapping their bubbles.

I think you have Wayne and Marasi backwards here. It sounds like you're saying (and forgive me if I'm wrong and just confusing myself, because anything twisting time around twists my head around as well) that Wayne is experiencing less time than everyone around him, and Marasi is experiencing more, while in actuality, Wayne gets to experience extra time relative to those around him, and Marasi just sits there while everyone else moves faster. In regards to the train questions, I think your problem is solved if you simply have the bubbles relative to the train, not the planet. After all, the allomancer is currently relative to the train, so why wouldn't the bubble have the same frame of reference as their creator? I'm a little confused about what you're saying in the second example. I think it would depend on what happens to someone entering a bubble, which we don't really know anything about yet. I think that a bubble on that scale would see the entire planet as one unified whole, so an individual wouldn't notice anything at all. If a train can be enough to block its passengers from noticing a bubble, why wouldn't a planet do the same thing? Another thing we know about bubbles is that they can't be too small either. There are times when Wayne can't create a bubble around him and Wax because other people are too close and would be included. I wonder if he has any control over the size of the bubbles at all. It would also be interesting to see if people ended up aging at different rates due to time spent in bubbles. Although the metals are so expensive, I don't suppose anyone could afford to have one going nearly long enough to have a noticeable effect on their age.