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This is brilliant. Truly, truly brilliant. I love this and agree completely. I want to espouse this idea right now.

I would like to announce that as of this very moment, I am the first, and original, Hero of Ages on 17th Shard. As I was the original Hero of Ages on TWG (and never a corrupt Lord Ruler, nope!) I find this very fitting. MUWHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA! Sorry, did you hear that? That was me manifesting my voice into the wind of the entire planet with my Shardic strength. I don't need mere spikes to speak to you.

Yeah, Brandon did say it wasn't a mistake that pewter stole health. Gut reaction, I'd say either pewter or gold spikes can steal all those Feruchemical "physical" powers, in both those two quadrants. That's the only way to reconcile the two. However, it also doesn't seem right that there would be overlapping powers. I don't think we'll know enough to resolve that ambiguity for a long time, unfortunately...

Truly, this is the most professional topic ever.

That was the other primary reason why I didn't want to do it (in addition to the potential lack of interest), because I knew I couldn't be up to the task. Of course, now we have a ludicrous abundance of staff members, so I'm not too worried that we can have moderators in there. Well... that works

It could be that Odium's method of killing and Splintering Shards is the only way he can effectively kill Shards without killing himself. It need not be like the way Vin destroyed Ruin, which required both of them dying. We don't know enough about the actual method that Odium kills to be for certain. Since the Shards Odium killed are Splintered (though, I suppose we don't know for certain that Honor is Splintered), it would challenging for Harmony to ever pick up all those Splinters--not to mention that it could be impossible to actually reform a totally Splintered Shard back into its original state. The Seons and Skaze are the remains of Devotion and Dominion, so Harmony would need to go to Sel and destroy all the Seons and Skaze to ever pick up their power. I can't see Sazed ever doing such a thing. It isn't like there are a bunch of empty Shards around. That kind of power will always have some Cognitive being attached to it (for example, Kelsier held Preservation a bit until Vin could take the power more fully). There may also be incentive for Harmony to never leave Scadrial long enough to pick up those Splinters, or make deals with other Shards. If he did, Scadrial's peoples are suddenly in a very real danger to Odium. Odium could go to Scadrial--defenseless without Harmony--and in the aftermath Harmony realizes, "Oh crap, there's a very real possibility that I'd die from this if I returned." But Odium would torture and destroy the Scadrialese so much that Harmony feels an obligation to stop Odium's onslaught. In the process, however, Odium has his Splintering trick up his sleeve, and because Odium is more experienced, much more vicious, and would be waiting for Harmony's return, Odium kills Harmony with ease. Better, perhaps, for Harmony to stay and defend Scadrial and deter Odium as long as possible until Harmony comes up with adequate preparations. I don't know; I completely made this up just now. But you gotta admit, Harmony would not like to see his people die, and so could feel obligated to stay there just on that basis alone. As for why Odium didn't pick up those Shards, well, other people got to me first. I mean, he's a vindictive person, and a Shard based around hatred seems very well matched to him. I'm sure he was at first very enticed with the idea of being more powerful, but decided against it. I mean, there are always those types of people who are faced with the choice of "You can change, and maybe it'd be awesome," but a lot of times, they would rather not change. Their essence, the way that they live is too precious for them to ever give up. So, given Odium doesn't seem like the type who'd ever change for the greater good, it makes much more sense that he'd want to stay himself--at least, his Odium-tinted self--and just break all the other Shards. In doing so, he is assured that he the most powerful being in the cosmere. He doesn't need all of Adonalsium if he is already effectively God. If you're a particularly horrible person, this makes total sense. Why would I need to hold all that power, when I am practically guaranteed that this way, I can do everything I ever wanted to do and retain my outlook on life? There's no reason for Odium to want all the power of creation. Plus, there's plenty of evidence that a Shard's power regenerates over time (the Well of Ascension, atium). In a practical sense, this means that in a situation where Odium is the only Shard left, he never runs out of his power. Forever god, in his own way, to the entire cosmere. This isn't entirely accurate, about Sazed being immune to the effects of a Shard's intent. If you look in this (very late) report, Sazed is affected. Not as much, yes, but he is influenced. It's like being between two incredibly powerful gravitational forces. Like, for example, imagine a binary star system. Let's assume the two stars have the exact same mass. Sure, you can find that one place, in the exact midpoint between the stars, where you are in perfect equilibrium. But that doesn't mean you have total freedom--you still always feel those stars' effects, because you have to remain in that exact position. In fact, I remember that we asked Brandon what effect the Shards would have on Sazed, and he said, essentially, "Read Alloy and you'll find out." And certainly, Sazed was shaped to be more in line with the idea of Harmony. Sure, it's still a pretty Sazed thing for him to do, but 1. As a holder of a Shard, you do get some ability to interpret a Shard's intent, and 2. The Shards aren't having zero effect on Sazed, like we had thought would happen.

The member Sweetness in our forum cbox expressed interest in an IRC channel. Going off that idea, I was wondering how many people would be interested in a chat room? Invision Power Board (our site software) does have a chat module, and I hadn't installed it in February 2011 because I wasn't sure there'd be enough interest. However, we have a lot more activity now than we did back then. So, we definitely have the capability to integrate chat into the site, in either IRC form or not, but would this be something you would be interested in? With "you" meaning our many many lurkers as well

Did you get the accounts set up and working now, Reader? Let me know if there are any remaining issues

Fixed it for you. By the way, Zas Shiver Zas Shiver Zas Shiver Zas Shiver ZAS!! ~SHIVER~ LORD CHAOS MAN IN THE SUITis totally awesome and should get all the upvotes.

Since it seems that a lot of you guys have finished the game, I'm putting Spoilers in the title so you can all discuss it. And I'm gonna not view this thread for a month and a half until I actually get to play it

I know some people have asked where to start editing the wiki, and it just occurred to me, why not look on the list of Popular pages by views and get the ones that people look at the most to be a lot better? The Shard article is pretty good (I wonder who wrote that one? ), but since Alloy there is information that isn't in there yet. More importantly, Hoid, Cosmere, and Adonalsium are awful articles--the Adonalsium one less so, but man, they all need serious revision. Basically, if there's information that you know on a topic that isn't in the article, then it ought to be in that article. These are the articles that people come to the wiki for the most. You Google cosmere, and our wiki article on the subject is the first result. They can be a lot better. I'm kind of surprised that all the Shards have so many views, but again, people predominantly come to the wiki because they are like "What? Shards? What are those? The worlds are connected?" I feel that these Shard articles can have more content as well. By the way, cogent theories on these cosmere topics are allowed, as long as you put up the {{theory}} disclaimer, like I did at the end of the Shard article. As these topics involve much speculation, it's better to have well-based speculation in an article and inform some people about things than have an empty article. So, if you want a very critical thing to edit on the wiki, looking at that list and improving the ones people view the most may be a good way of doing that. Another way of finding things to edit is to click Random Page endlessly, crying at the state of how many stubs there are, and expanding them into something a lot more beefy. Hope this helps, if you were looking for some guidance. The Unpublished Works article is also pretty spare, and bad, but that one might require original knowledge that a newer editor may not know right off the bat. EDIT: Also, the chronology article is borderline unreadable, and also wrong given that Alloy is now concurrent with Way of Kings.

Moving this topic to the Stormlight Archive board Those suits kick such butt. Literally, even.

The oppression tastes so delicious, doesn't it? There's nothing quite like the smell of spiked flesh in the morning. EDIT: I would like to announce that I just realized I freaking upvoted Zas! Gah! What did I do such a heinous thing? Oh, right, because the post was awesome. Dangit.

Sounds like someone is asking for a swift backhand.

Zas was close to me in Rep before being an admin Your conspiracy plot, debunked! Technically though, I have access to the databases, so I am essentially god. I am your god, even if you can't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves... Oh, whoops. That was premature. I only get to say that line when some jerk steals my bracelets and stabs me with a spear. If only I backhanded witty, mentor figures less!

That was awesome. Musicspren, you know that admins can arbitrarily adjust Reputation count at will, right? Not that we have, and we don't plan to, but your plan to overthrow the Spikeocracy shall fail

Sorry. I had to restructure the reputation ranks. The new Shard rank is at 128, and there are higher ranks above that.

Even I, a senior in math, don't like the super technical mathy threads.

I say transcribe all of it, just not with the ums and ahs.

Wow. I just, can't believe it about Fathvell. Googling Fathvell gives you the Mistborn RP, so, it would be so incredibly unlikely for it to be happenstance.

Thaaaat's what I said, Kerry. Holy crap.

Oh shut up.

Duuuude I cannot wait. Especially if he answered any of my questions. Ahhhh! So excited.

Whoa, so, Fathvell is an old house. All right then. That's awesome.