Hello there! Been reading for a while, but new to the community!

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

Hello from Indiana! I'm normally not one to get super involved in online communities, but as I've been getting more and more into the Cosmere I've wanted to actually engage with other fans (aside from my 3 friends that read Cosmere, who are much more casual readers than me).

I originally started pouring through the forum looking for information or discussions that could help connect information together that wasn't on the Coppermind, and while I haven't found much in that regard I've been having a pretty good time looking through the stuff that is here.

I've been reading (and re-reading) Sanderson works for about 12 years (started with Steelheart in high school), and have been into the Cosmere for about 2 1/2 years. I am completely caught up on all official published Cosmere works, and am currently on my third re-read of Mistborn as I slowly descend into madness await whatever the next thing may be.

I am an engineer by trade and am also an avid a hobbyist prop maker and medievalist. As a result of those things together I've been spending a lot of my free time lately working on prop replicas of various types of investiture for my display shelf. As of now I have something for Stormlight, Lifelight, Voidlight, White Sand, Aons, Forging, Aviar, some (but not all) of the metals for Allomancy and Hemalurgy, some of the confirmed Aethers, and Unkeyed Investiture.

I also like to workshop theories on applications of invested arts, like applying engineering principles to allomancy and fabrials for potential applications as the Cosmere industrial revolution progresses. Right now I've got a sizable, partially completed thesis on the construction of Malwish medallions, but there's so much we don't know on the interplay between Connection, Investiture, and Identity, that I can't really progress it without making some massive assumptions at best, and just making stuff up at worst.

Anyway, this is already probably a much longer blurb than necessary. Hope I can get to know some folks!

[The Great Wyver She/Her]

Hello and welcome to the Shard. Do you prefer Coke, Dr. Pepper, or Pepsi? Or some mix of them?

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

1 hour ago, The Great Wyver said:

Hello and welcome to the Shard. Do you prefer Coke, Dr. Pepper, or Pepsi? Or some mix of them?

Oh Dr. Pepper, 100%. It's my go-to soft drink

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

6 hours ago, DracoAdamantus said:

Hello from Indiana! I'm normally not one to get super involved in online communities, but as I've been getting more and more into the Cosmere I've wanted to actually engage with other fans (aside from my 3 friends that read Cosmere, who are much more casual readers than me).

I originally started pouring through the forum looking for information or discussions that could help connect information together that wasn't on the Coppermind, and while I haven't found much in that regard I've been having a pretty good time looking through the stuff that is here.

I've been reading (and re-reading) Sanderson works for about 12 years (started with Steelheart in high school), and have been into the Cosmere for about 2 1/2 years. I am completely caught up on all official published Cosmere works, and am currently on my third re-read of Mistborn as I slowly descend into madness await whatever the next thing may be.

I am an engineer by trade and am also an avid a hobbyist prop maker and medievalist. As a result of those things together I've been spending a lot of my free time lately working on prop replicas of various types of investiture for my display shelf. As of now I have something for Stormlight, Lifelight, Voidlight, White Sand, Aons, Forging, Aviar, some (but not all) of the metals for Allomancy and Hemalurgy, some of the confirmed Aethers, and Unkeyed Investiture.

I also like to workshop theories on applications of invested arts, like applying engineering principles to allomancy and fabrials for potential applications as the Cosmere industrial revolution progresses. Right now I've got a sizable, partially completed thesis on the construction of Malwish medallions, but there's so much we don't know on the interplay between Connection, Investiture, and Identity, that I can't really progress it without making some massive assumptions at best, and just making stuff up at worst.

Anyway, this is already probably a much longer blurb than necessary. Hope I can get to know some folks!

Interesting... You make Props, yes? I would recomend checking out the Let's be Radiant thread, and The Cosmere forum group. Lets be radiant is a bunch of people who want their fictional swords to be real and would love seeing the stuff you make, and The Cosmere has a bunch of enthusiastic theorizers (including @Treamayne who cites his sources) who will always reply to your threads.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Welcome!

If you could invite any 6 Sanderson characters to a party, who would you invite?

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

12 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Interesting... You make Props, yes? I would recomend checking out the Let's be Radiant thread, and The Cosmere forum group. Lets be radiant is a bunch of people who want their fictional swords to be real and would love seeing the stuff you make, and The Cosmere has a bunch of enthusiastic theorizers (including @Treamayne who cites his sources) who will always reply to your threads.

Awesome, thanks for the info!

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

12 hours ago, KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren said:

Welcome!

If you could invite any 6 Sanderson characters to a party, who would you invite?

Okay, I have two scenarios in mind.

Scenario 1: A small dinner party that I'm hosting for these characters, those I think I'd actually get along with and have some good conversation with.

• Navani
• Khriss
• Sazed (though I'd politely request religious talk be kept to a minimum)
• Shai
• Starling
• Hoid (kind of a wild card I know, but I desperately want to pick his brain)

Scenario 2: Characters I'd want to PARTY with

• Blushweaver (cause horny)
• MeLann (also cause horny)
• Wayne (he honestly seems like a great guy to hang out with, aside from his "trading" habits)
• Szeth (to babysit Wayne)
• Lopen (I gotta see a conversation between him and Wayne)
• Hoid

[The Great Wyver She/Her]

18 hours ago, DracoAdamantus said:

Oh Dr. Pepper, 100%. It's my go-to soft drink

YES A FELLOW DR PEPPER FAN

*ahem* Favorite dessert?

[-ACE- he/him]

Welcome to the shard! What is your favorite book not by Brandon? (I desperately need a new book rec, and CoderDrag0n8 wasn't much help)

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

45 minutes ago, FRENZEE said:

Welcome to the shard! What is your favorite book not by Brandon? (I desperately need a new book rec, and CoderDrag0n8 wasn't much help)

Hmm, well this may be cliche, cause they're the grandmother and grandfather of modern sci-fi and fantasy, but it would have to be either Lord of the Rings or Dune.

If going for more recent books though, I haven't read them in years (they're definitely young adult books), but the Airborn trilogy by Kenneth Oppel was a favorite of mine for a long time. 

1 hour ago, The Great Wyver said:

YES A FELLOW DR PEPPER FAN

*ahem* Favorite dessert?

Impossible to pick just one, but the top 5 in no particular order would be: Peach crisp, red velvet cake (or cake balls), dirt pudding, coconut cream pie, and almost anything almond-based

[DracoAdamantus he/him]

For anyone interested, I finally finished part 1 of my previously mentioned unsealed metalminds theory, and posted it in the Mistborn forum: