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A very astute observation, Darnam. My first inclination here is to say that this tells us that BioChromatic perception is on the processing side of things, rather than the input side. So your senses, per se, aren't enhanced, but your mind's ability to process them is. Of course, they may well run afoul of the degree to which perception itself is an activity of the mind...

@Sickly Yes, of course. I cut out some commentary from the question, but perhaps I should have included it.

This question might interest you. Source:

I can't recall where I saw it, but I think someone got a hold of a list of all the flashback characters, and I don't recall Gavilar's name being on it. Now normally this would prompt me to spend an hour hunting that list down, but I actually don't want to know this particular bit of information (I'm doing a pretty good job of forgetting it so far ), so I'll leave finding it to someone else. Beyond that, we haven't had it outright stated that there will be a book whose flashback character is already dead. Brandon's said that it's a possibility, but there are those who think that's a red herring so that we don't assume Dalinar/Szeth is going to live at least up until the point where each gets "their" book. So that's my NR, I suppose. That's from LD, I'm guessing? Good times... EDIT: Fixed massive abuse of the common apostrophe.

I totally respect him for writing despite the "Embuggerance", don't get me wrong. It's just that I don't feel like I'm reading the same author anymore, which is in fact the case, to a certain sad extent.

I linked to it above, but the long and short of it is that karaokeang is a beast and basically sat down with Brandon at a signing to get the majority of the orders/surges labeled and/or confirmed on a chart she'd brought, with that chart annotated based on info from another signing.

Sorry, but you're a bit off. Edgedancers are Order 4 with Growth and Friction, indicating that the Stormwarden in the WoK interlude was using a fabrial. Source: EDIT: NINJAAAA!

The implicit assumption is that Szeth made some choice that bound him to the stone, and so is responsible for what follows after.

The characterization and prose just felt wrong with Snuff. I know that isn't a very sophisticated criticism, but that's the best I can describe why.

Yeah, naming things is tough. Took me forever to name a sniper rifle ("Laser-Guided Karma" with description of "That's what you get for standing still!", since I know you wanted to know ) in TF2 one time: I ended up submitting it to a forum too. "Shardscythe"?

@Meg No problem. @Sats No, you're right that "hardwired" is more common.

I do love me a good game of werewolves. They call me Kukri, the knife-guy.

@Feather I thought there might be other things, but I could be wrong... @Natans We had an award system before your time (wow I'm old) on an old version of the forum, but it's been dead since the update. Here's the soulcaster.

You might be the single most tweeted fan at this point, Feather. This, the soulcaster, and I think there might have been one or two other things...

What Whelan said gave me the impression that you went above the call of duty, then decided that wasn't far enough and went beyond it; so I'm sure it's deserved.

No problem. Not only is "hardwritten" English-the-weird, but it's also pretty jargon-y. *Sees Darnam's ninjaing* To clarify a bit on what Darnam said, "hardwritten" is supposed to mean that it cannot be changed, realistically. Your harddrive is not really "hardwritten" in this sense—it's just hardware—but many of its functions are hardwritten. When you want it to read or write some block of data, the processes it uses to do so are burned into a chip, not written in code.

My theory is that Peter's been stalking about on Tumblr to find these things as of late.

As to the glove, it could potentially be accurate to the scene. Darkeyes wear gloves, after all, so it could simply be a matter of lighteyed women in the field wearing gloves for utility's sake. A bit less than ladylike, but certainly still proper. Recall that Ben was consulting, so I doubt he'd let a bigish continuity error like that slide. @Rooster You got a response to your question about the endpages, btw. Source:

There's no need to open up that discussion again, Darnam. In fact, I don't really see any of this morality discussion as going anywhere useful, to be honest.

Also, the sun/seasons would be noticeably odd.

I'm unsure on physical differences, but we know that Intents have only minute effects on people: Source:

While I agree with you in that I think the stone is likely just symbolic, we don't know that for a fact and there are others who disagree, so it's best not to go around stating its symbolism as fact just yet.

To settle the "god" discussion in regards to Sazed: Brandon sees the Shards as less than properly "godly": Source:

I believe Mary once suggested its utility as a weapon in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

He'd need to "manifest" so that he could metabolize it. So just popping up in mist-spirit form would probably do the trick.