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"A wily swindler cheats an old friend in a deal - first by trapping him for millenia, then by engineering his demise in a suicidal and manipulative plot."

 

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11 minutes ago, robardin said:

"A wily swindler cheats an old friend in a deal - first by trapping him for millenia, then by engineering his demise in a suicidal and manipulative plot."

 

Mistborn? 

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8 hours ago, Personification said:

Mistborn? 

But of course! Ati/Ruin got a raw deal!

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LOTR: Nearly 3,000 years after being ganged up on, beaten, and finally robbed and left for dead, an angel finally recovers enough to attempt to recover his stolen property and regain his position, only to see it all destroyed by an obsessed and stunted madman he never even met.

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WoR

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A girl with a photographic memory uses her mind to win the day one situation at a time.

 

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Snapshot:

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VR Scrap-booking gone wrong.

Sixth of the Dusk:

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Standard veterinary de-worming procedures have not yet made their way out to the islands. 

Or...

E.T. wants your home.

 

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Reckoners

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In a science experiment gone wrong, a celestial being gives a whole planet superpowers and is too stubborn to admit his hypothesis was wrong.

I think Shardcast had the best one: Roshar Secret Societies

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Imagine the Illuminati is real, and there are 10 of them, and they all hate each other

 

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Sorry to bring back the pronunciation discussion but in my experience, to pronounce Aons or other things from Sel, every vowel says its name. I'm sorry. It's a cheesy elementary-school style memory trick.

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Perfect State:

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That’s not how a first date is supposed to go...

Rithmatist:

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My eighth grade geometry class FINALLY became useful.

 

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I just read Perfect State:

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The gods command a guy and a girl to hook up. The guy hates the idea until he sees her, but then he's suddenly OK with it. The girl is definitely not OK with it and takes drastic action to avoid it.

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Mistborn: Secret History

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A dead sociopath punches god in the face and goes kayaking on another dead guy...

 

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1 hour ago, Apollyon said:

Mistborn: Secret History

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A dead sociopath punches god in the face and goes kayaking on another dead guy...

 

That is so true...

 

Another one for Mistborn: Secret History...

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Ah, there we go! We all knew that Kelsier was WAY too awesome to permanently die!

 

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Mistborn:

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Neighbourly quarrels go bad while a traumatised girl forces an old man to accept his age.

WoA:

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Everyone forgets to ask who makes the prophecies

HoA:

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An emo Buddhist reaches enlightenment by realising that its okay to be edgy.

 

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Not too long ago I got into a fantasy/action adventure series by Lindsay Buroker called the Dragon Blood series. I was thinking about the first book and came up with a pretty good one.

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Wizard awakens, after a long nap, to discover the course of civilization is determined by who controls the most light-bulbs.

 

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Rangers Apprentice 

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The a gang of Texas Rangers went for a time travel trip. They ended up getting stuck, but decided to pass on their knowledge to some of the Anglos(or perhaps Celts, not 100% sure on the timeframe there) 

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Seriously though. A small group of specialized law enforcement, experts with ranged weaponry and guerrilla tactics. "One riot, one ranger" actually came from a story about a Texas Ranger.

 

 

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The ShadowMaster - Villains Rule

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A charismatic scumbag does what we'd all do, or like to do, if given the chance to cross into a fantasy universe that follows the rules. Decide that it's time to exploit every loophole and trope in fantasy for profit and amusement, all while insulting and threatening the reader for funsies.

 

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