Flistr Posted May 9, 2013 Report Share Posted May 9, 2013 I've enjoyed the chapters shared on Tor and am looking forward to next week for the book. I know I'm probably not the first to notice, but the illustration for the Part One heading shows a sprocket that has nine cogs on it. They are distributed along that sprocket in the same pattern that the nine bind points of the Basic Easton Defense are distributed. Knowing Brandon's history of including hints/teases in the chapter headings and illustrations, I'm interested to see what is revealed. Will there be an Ars Arcanum with additional info not found in the text for clues? Will it be like in The Way of Kings each chapter heading illustration indicated a theme for the chapter? What else does Brandon have up his sleeve? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windrunner Posted May 10, 2013 Report Share Posted May 10, 2013 I doubt that there will be an Ars Arcanum, I'm pretty sure that's a cosmere book only thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Monstrosity Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Honestly, I am mostly curious about how lines work on spherical surfaces. Draw an equator. Is it a line of forbiddance? Is it a line of warding? It's BOTH! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanist Lupus Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Depends on your intent. Remember that the lines only work if you intend them to work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makromag Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 ^Plus, if it is not a rithmatic line anymore it might simply do nothing. Or perhaps it does something completely different so you don't know the right intent to make it work, making it again do nothing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Monstrosity Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 Depends on your intent. Remember that the lines only work if you intend them to work.And I intend it to work bothways.^Plus, if it is not a rithmatic line anymore it might simply do nothing. Or perhaps it does something completely different so you don't know the right intent to make it work, making it again do nothing.I'm pretty sure that would make curved surfaces an insurmountable barrier to rithmatics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senor Feesh Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 And I intend it to work bothways.I'm pretty sure that would make curved surfaces an insurmountable barrier to rithmatics. Perhaps they are; I don't know if it's come up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 Perhaps they are; I don't know if it's come up. Curved surfaces are definitely not unpassable barriers in Rithmatics. Otherwise most of the "fighting" in Nebrask would consist of carefully designed Earth-working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarontos Posted May 28, 2013 Report Share Posted May 28, 2013 Honestly, I am mostly curious about how lines work on spherical surfaces. Draw an equator. Is it a line of forbiddance? Is it a line of warding? It's BOTH! the line is no longer straight and there for loses effectiveness as a line of forbidance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 the line is no longer straight and there for loses effectiveness as a line of forbidance. This seems most likely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Brandon just posted all of the illustrations on his website. http://brandonsanderson.com/book/The-Rithmatist/page/69/The-Rithmatist-Interior-Illustrations 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Monstrosity Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 (edited) Is that all of them? I could have sworn there was some sort of ultra-controversial Blad defense as well. It used four semicircular lines of warding, I think? I thought there was art of that - I'm away from my books, but it was just like, sprinkled into the page. Edited May 29, 2013 by Phantom Monstrosity 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarontos Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 (edited) Is that all of them? I could have sworn there was some sort of ultra-controversial Blad defense as well. It used four semicircular lines of warding, I think? I thought there was art of that - I'm away from my books, but it was just like, sprinkled into the page. The Blad defense is not featured in the illustrations but it is mentioned briefly at the end of the fifth chapter, when Joel is trying to get Fitch to take Him as a student/ward/thing. I was kind of disappointed by this, as it left me with out some useful information on conics and "four disjointed ellipsoid segments." Edited June 5, 2013 by Tarontos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Monstrosity Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Yeah I looked again and couldn't find it. Must have imagined it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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