New member and already had my first epic fail!

[SteelSlinger]

Hi all,

My name is Brandon and I just recently started reading more fantasy. I randomly picked book one of the storm light archive as I had never heard of Sanderson but saw he was very popular. Well since the beginning of the year I've read the first two books of the stormlight archive and the entire mistborn trilogy. Loving these books and I cannot get enough. I started the Allow of Law last night and that lead me to finding this forum to get to know of Sanderson's work and find some answers to many questions.

This leads me to the story behind my post title. I thought a cool user name for the forums would be steelslinger as a play on gunslinger and Wax's steel pushing abilities. Unfortunately I did not double-check my name after I entered it and the nasty auto-correct demons changed my name to steels linger, which is not only nonsense, but makes me sounds like I'm a thief that doesn't know when to leave. Any chance an admin could use some magic to change my name?

Anyway, looking forward to sharing adventures with you all and hope to be posting on a regular basis. Lastly, one question; what other books is Hoid in? The Stormlight Archives are my first encounter with him and I've read in other posts that he's a recurring character in the universe. (Which is freaking awesome.)

Edited April 27, 2015 by Steels linger

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

If you go to your profile, there's a large black button labeled "Edit my Profile". Click that. That will take you a menu with lots of options. On the far left there are a bunch of tabs. The third one down says Display name. That menus will allow you to change your name.

 

You might need to still sign in as Steels linger, but you'll appear as Steelslinger.

 

And welcome to the forums!

[SteelSlinger]

Awesome! Thanks for the advice. It will be a good reminder to always check for the auto-correct demons.

[Quiver he/him]

 My name is Brandon

 

 

Anyway, welcome! 

 

Yeah, Hoid is a recurring character; in fact, he's in all of Brandon's Cosmere books.Stormlight Archive is the first (published) work where's he's had a major role though; he's been intended as small cameo's in Brandon's other books, like an easter egg for the readers to find.

Edited April 27, 2015 by Quiver

[+Slowswift]

Welcome! Do you want a cookie? Autocorrect demons are EVIL.

 

But not as evil as the ear daemons who tell you to eat the last piece of pie when you know Tia wanted it, amirite?

 

Anyways, welcome!

Edited April 28, 2015 by Slowswift

[Silverblade5 he/him]

Autocorrect is a voidbringer.

[SteelSlinger]

Thanks for the replies guys. I just finished Elantris in a week! Keeping eye out for Hoid but didn't see anything. Maybe I'm not sneaky enough. Good book though. spoiler question: Can anyone explain why digging the line in the ground fixed the map. Was there a break in the city wall he connected?

[themovement he/him]

My new tattoo

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Can anyone explain why digging the line in the ground fixed the map. Was there a break in the city wall he connected?

The City of Elantris was in the shape of an Aon, the Aon of Spirit. When the Reod happened, all Aon's were invalidated, because they needed the chasm Line. So Raoden drew the Chasm line in the dirt. That fixed everything.

[Zas678 he/him]

But the way that the book is written, it's really really unclear about where Raoden placed the chasm line. There's going to be a 10th anniversary edition that should make things clearer on that point. 

 

And welcome Brandon Steelslinger!

[Sarcasm she/her]

Thanks for the replies guys. I just finished Elantris in a week! Keeping eye out for Hoid but didn't see anything. Maybe I'm not sneaky enough. Good book though. spoiler question: Can anyone explain why digging the line in the ground fixed the map. Was there a break in the city wall he connected?

Hoid does show up, as a beggar to help Sarene get food into Elantris. He shows up closer to the end. Hope that helps!

[SteelSlinger]

The City of Elantris was in the shape of an Aon, the Aon of Spirit. When the Reod happened, all Aon's were invalidated, because they needed the chasm Line. So Raoden drew the Chasm line in the dirt. That fixed everything.

But I thought there was already a chasm created by the reode which broke the city map and that's why none of the Aons worked.

Edited May 6, 2015 by SteelSlinger

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I'm not quite sure of what you're saying. I think you think the Chasm went through Elantris? The Chasm was in Southern Arelon, far away from the city of Elantris. If that's not what you meant, then please clarify.

[SteelSlinger]

Yeah that is. I guess I was confused at how if the chasm was what broke the Aons, then why would drawing a line representing the chasm in a different place beside the aforementioned chasm restore the magic.