Hello World!

[Jetter he/him]

whelp... I did it.... I finally joined the 17th shard... here's to fully accepting my nerddom!

I hope I can be a useful member of society here. I love the books and I would love to be able to provide helpful insight and discussions!

I have read almost everything Cosmere by Brandon. I am just missing a few choice pieces like Dragonsteel prime and such.

I try to stay up to date and cannot wait until the next book is released!

I am a huge fan of Threnody and wish there were a full fledged book on the way soon. I will just have to sit on that and hope.

If I were a twinborn I would be Electrum (augur) + Zinc (sparker). Though I have no idea for what Radiant order I would go to. I will assume one of the orders we haven't seen yet =P

[Lunamor she/her]

Welcome! Do not accept any cookies. They will most likely be hemalurgicly spiked and will steal your soul. Which book (novel sized) is your favorite?

[Jetter he/him]

I would say Emperor's soul is my favorite of the novels. I love the internal dialog that Shai has and her subtle cunning and full understanding of her situation that puts her like 3 steps ahead of everyone else.

You see that sometimes in books but I've never seen it from a POV character in that way. It's almost funny because the way it's done when a character does something that would otherwise have been a surprise. You, as a reader of Shai's narrative, are like "oh yeah, ok that was expected".

I'm not a huge fan of forest of hell but I do love the world itself. I can just imagine some sort of magic system involving rule-breaking or rule-changing.

I love how Brandon makes his magic systems, each one is independently a stable and functional magic and yet for me somehow each one builds upon just a single piece of what people would describe the magic a classic "wizard" would use.

Like I see Allomancy for alchemy / potions, Hemalurgy for necromancy / stealing, Breath for spoken commands, stormlight for summoning, Elantris for written magic, Threnody for rules. Stuff along those lines. I know its really basic but I just see them as all a single piece of something as a whole. So we can't see someone making hand motions, speaking magic words and throwing a fireball, but you can get someone figuring out something functionally similar using a single aspect of those things.

[Ryu Hatsu]

Welcome! Great thoughts/comments! 

[+Sorana she/her]

Hello and welcome to the shard!

The emperor's soul is great, and Shai definitly one of my favourite characters.