Historical Figures Misplaced in the Cosmere

[Dankworth he/him]

This got started in You Know You're a Sanderfan When... Part 2.

 

The idea is to decide which power set historical figures from the real world would have if they were dropped into the Cosmere (preferably into roles similar to those they had in their actual lives). I think it should stay limited to the Cosmere, because if we add Epic abilities and Smedry talents, people could basically just make up custom power sets for their favorite figures.

 

We started with Roshar and the Radiant orders, but all Cosmere settings and magics are open.

 

It also started with American Civil War figures, and I'm not sure if it should be opened to all time periods at once. It would be a little hard to follow random jumps from the U.S. Civil War to the Roman Empire to World War II to the Shang Dynasty. I'm thinking theme weeks, Sunday through Saturday, each week following a certain time period. For example, this first week the thread will stick to the American Civil War, then the first person to post after noon on Sunday, May 24, 2015 will pick the time period to use until Sunday, May 31, after which the first poster picks the period until June 7, and so on until the thread dies.

 

I'm not sure about this system, so if anyone has a better idea I'd like to hear it (preferably within the first few days).

 

So here's what we've got so far:

 

 

[...]Ulysses S. Grant would totally have been a Bondsmith.

 

 

 He might have made an okay Lightweaver too, given that his very name was a lie.

 

Sherman would probably make a good Dustbringer, given their association with destruction and his "scorched earth" campaigns.

 

Lee would be a decent Stoneward, "I will stand while others fall" applies pretty well to his defenses in Virginia.

 

Kairos (sorry quote didn't work right): 

I think Stonewall Jackson has a better claim to the Stoneward. Come to think of it, that seems eerily close. Maybe he was secretly a Radiant, and it was his squires who accidentally shot him.

 

 

And McClellan would never be a Knights Radiant because he'd assume everyone has a bigger force than him and just demand reinforcements while refusing to engage. Then again, he may be a Truthwatcher since he's so much like Renarin. However, Stonewall is much more likely a candidate for the Truthwatchers since he is the really esoteric and quiet general. 

 

King Linkholin of Alethkar: "If  you do not intend to use your army anytime soon, Brightlord Clelleln, I should like to borrow it for a time."

 

Clelleln: "I cannot attack today, majesty--aside from the Vedens' superior numbers and hidden Shardbearers, my men, my horses, and even my chulls are all exhausted."

 

Linkholin: "Exactly what have you done with the army recently that could possibly tire a chull?!"

 

[Kairos he/him]

Frederick Douglass would be a Rioter, Lincoln a Soother. Not much more to add to that. Not the best at historical figures from that time. Oh, but Napoleon was a Edgedancer. And Andrew Jackson was a Thug.

Edited May 16, 2015 by Kairos

[Redbird he/him]

Frederick Douglass would be a Rioter, Lincoln a Soother. Not much more to add to that. Not the best at historical figures from that time. Oh, but Napoleon was a Edgedancer. And Andrew Jackson was a Thug.

I think Andrew Jackson was a thug/spinner twinborn, both pistols misfired when an assassin tried to kill him.

[vineyarddawg]

General Robert E. Lee was definitely a feruchemist. He primarily used 3 metalminds: Chromium, Zinc, and Electrum.  Unfortunately (no pun intended), he emptied his Chromium stores in the early morning hours of July 1, 1863.

 

Joan of Arc was clearly a rioter.

 

Finally, I'm fairly certain that the man we knew by the name of "Benjamin Franklin" was actually Hoid.  

[Dankworth he/him]

General Robert E. Lee was definitely a Feruchemist. He primarily used 3 metalminds: Chromium, Zinc, and Electrum.  Unfortunately (no pun intended), he emptied his Chromium stores in the early morning hours of July 1, 1863.

 

He must have run trough most of his zincmind in the first July 1st and 2nd, because his movements on the 3rd were highly predictable--very unusual for Lee--and the Union army had prepared for them, pretty much annihilating his main offensive. (Some of his division heads may also have been filling zinc, given how several of them ended up moving diagonally to the direction they were supposed to go.)

[vineyarddawg]

He must have run trough most of his zincmind in the first July 1st and 2nd, because his movements on the 3rd were highly predictable--very unusual for Lee--and the Union army had prepared for them, pretty much annihilating his main offensive. (Some of his division heads may also have been filling zinc, given how several of them ended up moving diagonally to the direction they were supposed to go.)

 

Yeah, a lot of people on the Confederate side were "storing zinc" on the 3rd.  

[The Shadow he/him]

Lincoln was clearly a Thug. How else could he lift those half-ton boulder?

[Sirce Luckwielder he/him]

I'm pretty sure Hitler was double Zinc. He was a powerful public speaker and a brilliant strategist.  Fortunately he used all the Zinc in Germany and he went crazy from the withdrawals of having a dependence cut short.