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You were not the intended audience of my post, as I have hidden the offending post. Your post is fine. I get that long time members might be confused as this spoiler policy is different, but it's like, on the top bar of the site. It's been there all week. I'll be sure to use flashing lights and pop-ups to get it through people's heads next time. Sigh. Anyway, this post is especially cool Thanks for sharing! It is pretty cool to see your name in the book, isn't it?

Post Secret History spoilers in the Secret History board. Spoiler tags are not sufficient, as per http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/bands-of-mourning-release-spoiler-policies-mi-r247

This is awesome. You should discuss this in the Secret History board, when you read that.

No Secret History spoilers outside of the Secret History board until February 9th, as stated in the spoiler policy on the top bar. Putting spoiler tags is not sufficient. As others say, Secret History may be relevant. Discuss it there. Violators will be placed in mod queue.

Those are strictly against the rules and so please report them so we can hide the posts and notify people of relevant spoiler policies, and put them in the mod queue.

Please review this: http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/bands-of-mourning-release-spoiler-policies-mi-r247 Only discuss Secret History in Secret History forum until February 9th. Relevant posts have been hidden and welcome to the moderation queue.

Mergers are very easy to do, but just be aware that when I merge two topics, the posts will be ordered by post time. So conversations might look a bit funky.

Hey guys, There are currently a lot of duplicate topics on this board (topics on the same subject matter) and so I am thinking I will be a bit heavy-handed. I can either: 1. Merge topics 2. Close topics and direct to the new thread. This might take me a bit to do, as I'm pretty busy, but which do you prefer?

That's exactly the idea?

There are quite a few other threads on this already. I am on mobile currently and don't have links, but they are there. I'll probably be doing some topic merging pretty soon.

I have asked if Fortune is a Shard in my signed copy of Bands. It hasn't arrived yet, but I will let you know.

Discuss Secret History spoilers only in the relevant subboard. I am sorry, signspace, but you're in the mod queue for breaking rules. Don't do it again. See relevant spoiler policy here: http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/bands-of-mourning-release-spoiler-policies-mi-r247 I have hidden the spoiler post.

I'm moving this to the Secret History board, where we assume you've read Bands.

Prepare yourself. Rubix and firstRainbowRose have the biggest collection I have seen.

It's so interesting to read this thread. It's nice to look at when people are young. Now, I am pretty bitter about relationships right now (or maybe apathetic is a more appropriate word). This post will probably be a downer, but eh, I wanted to complain a little too. For all of you with your relationship issues, on asking out girls/guys, I of course wish for the best for you. But honestly, I am a bit jealous that you have been able to find people you actually like and want to be with. Let me explain. Most people I know who have gotten into good relationships have met through school or mutual friends. That's about it. I was not so lucky. I have tons of female friends, but they never really had single friends to set me up with. I am currently kind of depressed because I'm out of college with my Master's, and now I am a professor at a university. Let me tell you, it is a new kind of awful when you are a 25 year old professor, because a lot of students are totally in my age range (well, some are, at least). But, you obviously can't flirt with students, and I don't. In principle it is fine if I was with a student as long as they weren't, you know, in my class, but generally I imagine students don't want to go out with professors. Totally reasonable. All of these totally reasonable things make it so I am at college surrounded by tons of potentially awesome girls, but I literally cannot make the first move ever. It's super fun. So, I don't know how the crap people meet people outside of work and school. I've had zero luck. My coworkers are a lot older than me and are also married. It's delightful. I've briefly tried online dating, but this university town is too small and selection is not high. I've never really had trouble talking to girls--almost all of my friends are girls--but I think I just live in the wrong spot and am totally screwed because of it. So Eric's depressing note for today: enjoy meeting people while you can! ...Okay, that's pretty depressing xD Sorry if this is a downer, haha.

As Weiry said earlier, Ire is an Aon. It means age. (See http://coppermind.net/wiki/Aon ) There is no doubt the Ire are Aonic. Alonoe is a lake in Arelon. They say Merciful Domi. So that's pretty clear. They are almost assuredly Elantrians. But here is my question: are these pre-Reod Elantrians, or post-Reod Elantrians? This makes a huge difference in how we see the Ire and it is not necessarily obvious what the answer would be. That fortress has been there a long time, Preservation says. It is certainly possible it is older than the few centuries between Elantris and Mistborn Era 1.

That Yolen instance was too much and I have edited it. People need to keep these a lot vaguer.

I don't know how to make this topic title more vague, but I'm coming up with something crappy for it.

I have pinned this topic

Please use the relevant spoiler tags as stated in the spoiler policy: http://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/bands-of-mourning-release-spoiler-policies-mi-r247

You bet. If anyone else has any concerns why don't we use this thread?

Yup.

Man, I hope we remember this on the next thread. Also amusingly: you guys are going to flip when I change the "posts per topic page" on the forum and the old ones don't go up to 100 pages anymore

Hi guys, I've edited the topic title to be a little more vague. I did think the original title, referencing Stormlight, was acceptable, but it was kind of on the line for those that wanted to know less.