OriginalHuman Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 Hi all! I'm Luke and I live in Maine, USA! I'm originally from Manchester, England and have been living in the US for around 5 years. I have quite a few hobbies ranging from making videos for my YouTube channel, to gaming, and more recently obsessing over the Cosmere. I've been reading The Way of Kings (About 3/4 the way done) and I am completely obsessed. I read the first Mistborn book a long time ago and never really got into it. Probably going to reread it after this amazing book. I'm excited to join the community! 6
+Invocation Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 Welcome to the Shard! Who's your favorite character so far in Way of Kings? 1
OriginalHuman Posted January 13, 2020 Author Posted January 13, 2020 Kaladin! Without question! He is awesome! 2
+Invocation Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, OriginalHuman said: Kaladin! Without question! He is awesome! Honestly, fair. Kaladin is pretty cool. So are you familiar at all with what goes on here on the Shard? Edited January 13, 2020 by Invocation 1
OriginalHuman Posted January 13, 2020 Author Posted January 13, 2020 Not as much as I’d like to be! I only found this website an hour ago while on my break at work! Would you kindly give me a quick breakdown of the forum?
+Invocation Posted January 13, 2020 Posted January 13, 2020 1 hour ago, OriginalHuman said: Not as much as I’d like to be! I only found this website an hour ago while on my break at work! Would you kindly give me a quick breakdown of the forum? Absolutely! (The only reason I asked was because some people lurk for a while before joining [including me] so I didn't want to just go for the breakdown.) There's a bunch of links at the top of the pages, and while they're pretty self-explanatory once you've made it through all of the cosmere, some need some background. Shardcast, for example, is a podcast that pretty much just talks Sanderson. Arcanum is the location of all the extra information we've been able to get out of Brandon at his signings and Reddit/Facebook/Youtube Q&As, as well as his own breakdowns on certain things. Coppermind is the Sanderson wiki. The rest of the Shard is broken up into various groupings, like general Shard stuff at the top, then information about Sanderson and his next/previous signing and spottings, then there's the Cosmere section where the main traffic happens (divided into series categories. Be careful around that, since there's no mandatory spoiler warnings in effect at the moment in there) and where you can get a copy of the unpublished Aether of Night (which despite how rough it is, is still pretty good), and the non-cosmere section right down at the bottom of most of the trafficked areas, though there are two sections below that. Those two sections at the bottom are the Related Works for Sanderson's Writing and Reading Excuses podcasts he was/maybe still is (I have no idea) involved with. Below that is the Community section, which is pretty much a sorting category for everything miscellaneous and includes an RP environment (obligatory plug, I'm involved with the Alleyverse RP and it's pretty fun. I highly encourage you to join that once you get some more of the cosmere under your belt) and things like Forum Games (there's a Puzzlehunt game that you may be interested in if you like that kind of stuff, but again: probably should get a few more cosmere books under your belt first). That's about everything. If you want me to explain anything in more detail or have any questions, you can quote that section of the message by highlighting it or hitting the quote button at the bottom of the post to quote the whole thing and I'll get a notification off of that. Also, before I forget, the little yellow/orange upvote thing is reputation points. You have 20 of those to give out per day and the label that's under your profile picture will change and rank up the more you get. Here's official site rules if you're concerned about that as well: Sorry about the wall of text! 2
OriginalHuman Posted January 13, 2020 Author Posted January 13, 2020 Amazing! Thank you so much! Looks like I have plenty of stuff to explore. Although I'm definitely going to avoid many chats if they contain spoilers! I just ordered Warbreaker, Elantris and Arcanum Unbound so I will have more to read soon! Thank you again! 1
+Invocation Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 3 hours ago, OriginalHuman said: Amazing! Thank you so much! Looks like I have plenty of stuff to explore. Although I'm definitely going to avoid many chats if they contain spoilers! I just ordered Warbreaker, Elantris and Arcanum Unbound so I will have more to read soon! Thank you again! That's a solid selection! Arcanum Unbounded is great especially since you get a bunch of mini-stories, lore, and star-charts all for the price of one! Also I'm a sucker for Mistborn but I understand the hesitance given that you said you tried it once before.
Rask Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 Hello and welcome! I don't live so far from Maine USA!
Honorless he/him Posted January 14, 2020 Posted January 14, 2020 Hello there, welcome to the Shard! When you get Arcanum Unbounded, read Emperor's Soul first, you'll love it
Feruchemical Skybreaker he/him Posted January 19, 2020 Posted January 19, 2020 Welcome to the 17th shard. As for your cosmere addiction i'm fairly sure we all have it and the 17th shard is just a support group for cosmere addicts.
Wander89 he/him Posted January 26, 2020 Posted January 26, 2020 Welcome Luke, glad to have you obsessing with us!
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