You Know You're a Sanderfan When...

[Dankworth he/him]

you use "stormfather," "lord ruler," and "dolokin" as curses

"Don't use his name as an oath, Vin. Even  blasphemy honors him--when you curse by that creature's name, you acknowledge him as you god."--Kelsier (Mistborn: The Final Empire p.103)

 

I am shamed to admit that I also frequently violate this holy commandment of the Survivor. (Although, technically Rashek was a god,or close enough to one as made no practical difference, but only for a few minutes.)

 

"Dolokin!" is probably the one I use the most, usually in the form "Dolokin, sule! You're kayana!" when one of my friends being idiotic. (If you say it fast enough, they can't separate the words, hear something like "Dulokenzul ukiana!" and think you can swear in Swahili or something.

[Dankworth he/him]

When you're assigned a paper on greek culture, and the influence their gods had on their culture, and your first thought is that you need to re-read Warbreaker.

 

... and you're heartbroken that you can't use it as a reference text.

When you really do use not one but three Sanderson books as reference texts for an English paper. (Just turned it in a couple hours ago.)

 

Update: I got a perfect 200 points on that paper, and the professor asked if she could show it to some other teachers!

Edited March 11, 2015 by Dankworth

[mail-mi he/him]

you use "stormfather," "lord ruler," and "dolokin" as curses

When you start using them as curses because your church leader advised against using substitution words that start with F.

[Redbird he/him]

Actually, the best in book curse word is You, as used by Lightsong.

[Silverblade5 he/him]

When you expect WoK to set a new standard in novel length, then become dissapointed when, four years later, most aren't even half as long

[PrncRny he/him]

When you are sorely disappointed with just about anything else in the fantasy genre because of simplistic magic systems, generic archetypical heroes, and plothole-ridden stories.

Jordan, then Sanderson, have ruined me for much of the genre. And I couldn't be happier about it.

 

(I was going to quote a similar thing as this posted earlier,b ut i couldn't find it. I simply wanted to say "THIS!" lol)

[Fatebreaker he/him]

When asked to list your nationality on forms you put down Herdazian.

[Scriptorian he/him]

When you're required to take notes, and your notebook looks like this:

 

 

I know, my handwriting is terrible.

[RawToast225 he/him]

When you make a special trip to Idaho just for a book signing even though you know he's coming to the city you live in a week later.

 

(I didn't do it, but someone might have. )

[sanderfan she/her]

When you and your friends spend all of lunch talking about Brandon Sanderson because they finally finished Mistborn. Now they're racing to see who can read all of the cosmere books first. It's the greatest. 

[Redbird he/him]

When talking about the 1850's in history and the teacher says what happened in Oregon, and the first thing you think is of the epics.

[Kasimir he/him]

When you're taking a quick check of 17th Shard even though you have exams tomorrow Guilty, guilty, guilty.

[Unhinged he/him]

When you're taking a quick check of 17th Shard even though you have exams tomorrow Guilty, guilty, guilty.

 

You're not alone. 

[TheArcanist he/him]

Wow, okay, I want to have Serendipity's writing skills. I can write a lot of things- Norse runes, Ogham, the Theban Alphabet, Malachim, Enochian, Daedric, Dovahzul, Falmeric, several variations of an elvish language I made up, and an orcish language I created; but none of them have been as pretty as that Alethi.

 

Well done; I tip my proverbial hat to you.

[Scriptorian he/him]

Wow, okay, I want to have Serendipity's writing skills. I can write a lot of things- Norse runes, Ogham, the Theban Alphabet, Malachim, Enochian, Daedric, Dovahzul, Falmeric, several variations of an elvish language I made up, and an orcish language I created; but none of them have been as pretty as that Alethi.

 

Well done; I tip my proverbial hat to you.

 

:blink:

 

Umm, I think you win. Alethi is the only fantasy language I've bothered to learn, and it's just english with different letters. And the way the characters are organized by sound makes it relatively easy to learn. The characters are certainly a simpler to draw than Daedric. Also, I can only read Alethi 20x slower than I can write it.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Wow, okay, I want to have Serendipity's writing skills. I can write a lot of things- Norse runes, Ogham, the Theban Alphabet, Malachim, Enochian, Daedric, Dovahzul, Falmeric, several variations of an elvish language I made up, and an orcish language I created; but none of them have been as pretty as that Alethi.

 

Well done; I tip my proverbial hat to you.

 

Best, Reply, Ever.

 

I can write in the Steel Alphabet, and even have a Font for it, But I can't read Alethi. I've also been attempting to develop a Nalthian Language. (It isn't Working)

[Oudeis he/him]

A question for people writing in Alethi and making fonts... do we know what the diacritical mark is you add to a symmetrical letter to indicate it should be pronounced as an h?

[Shaggai]

:blink:

 

Umm, I think you win. Alethi is the only fantasy language I've bothered to learn, and it's just english with different letters. And the way the characters are organized by sound makes it relatively easy to learn. The characters are certainly a simpler to draw than Daedric. Also, I can only read Alethi 20x slower than I can write it.

That's the Alethi script, not the Alethi language. If you want the Alethi language, you'll have to wait until the glyphs get fully translated.

[Paragrin she/her]

When you realize that Tinkerbell is Peter Pan's spren. And then you start wondering what order he's in, because he clearly has Gravitation, but he doesn't fit either the Windrunners or the Skybreakers...

[Shardcellist]

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/7174-cinderella-is-a-lightweaver/?hl=%2Bcinderella+%2Blightweaver

You're not the first.

[Kasimir he/him]

When your exam week is officially over and your first reaction is to get on Twitter and go:

I AM FREE

(And to favourite every single tweet which gets it.)

[Crystin Radiant]

When your freshman friend wants to go to BYU after he finishes high school, and your first thoughts are about Brandon Sanderson's creative writing class and Dragonsteel, which are the only two reasons you would want to go there, even though you probably won't.

[Zas678 he/him]

EVen though you have to be pratically a Senior to get that class (though you probably could just show up....

 

And the Dragonsteel book has a mile's worth of waitlist. But sometimes it's possible to get it through interlibrary-loan.

[Quiver he/him]

You're a Sanderfan when you volunteer to test out the soulstamp because, yeah, the idea of stamping souls is kind of creepy, but ACTUAL COSMERE MAGIC IN REAL LIFE is awesome enough to risk it.

 

...It can also be risked by downing vials of metal. Thus far, I have determined I am either an Allomantic Gnat, or unsnapped.

[Unhinged he/him]

You're a Sanderfan when you volunteer to test out the soulstamp because, yeah, the idea of stamping souls is kind of creepy, but ACTUAL COSMERE MAGIC IN REAL LIFE is awesome enough to risk it.

 

...It can also be risked by downing vials of metal. Thus far, I have determined I am either an Allomantic Gnat, or unsnapped.

 

Don't give up you could be an Atium misting, although don't ask me how you'd test that. Also have you put on any metal jewelry to make sure you aren't a ferring?