Bort
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I'll admit, it may just be my inexperience at this game, but after reading through last cycle's thread, I wasn't buying your explanations. Edit: And Happy Birthday Peng
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We have WoB that the Heralds can only draw on Stormlight if they have their Honourblades. You know who Zahel really is though, right? That is why he can use Stormlight without Spren or Blade.
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@Lightsworn Panda... They, as in the Royal Plural. Mostly because I don't know if Winter is male or female, so I use they instead of he or she. @Eolhondras... The reason I've not seen any of the spotlight is because I've barely been active. The first few days I was, and I'm back today, but I've not been on much over the weekend apart from to send a PM or two. As for the risky plan, I could probably still support it, but we would need more info before going ahead with it, as it relies heavily on other people, noticeably, the Shards.
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My vote is for Winter. I think they have been acting a bit suspiciously over the last cycle.
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Why is it not called the Kiton of Inquisition?
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Well, he started off with the Riftwar saga, which had three books. Then there were a couple of standlone novels, then the Serpentwar saga, which was four. After that, the various series he released just kinda all merged into one, but there were the Conclave of Shadows books, the Darkwar books, the Demonwar books, plus a few others set during the Riftwar, just about other characters, and the Empire trilogy, set on Kelewan. 30 books in all, and I own all but one of them. They started going downhill after the Serpentwar books, and the Demonwar and Darkwar gave the impression that he was running out of ideas. Magician's End did resolve it all nicely though, if you could overlook the continuity problems.
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Not necessarily all of them, although I am a little suspicious of you. You know more than you are telling, that's for sure
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Who starts the game knowing who has which role? Is it just Joe?
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That's ok, Neuxue. I have no evidence to support my theory either. I think that is the point of speculation though What you say may well be true.
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I thought that entire scene was pretty moving. Seeing another dead mother, the rather one-sided sword fight between Shallan's father and Balat, the unlucky strike which broke the soulcaster instead of running her father through, the poisoning, and how it didn't entirely work, all leading up to her choking him with the very necklace he had bought her, while singing the same lullaby to him as he sang to her after her mother was killed. The end of WoR, when you find out that he sang that song to her when her mother died put an emphasis on her father's death scene. You realise exactly why she didn't want to kill him, beyond the obvious 'he's my father, of course I don't want to kill him'.
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It seems Odium is releasing his Stormspren on Earth now. Watch out Brandon, they are probably coming for you...
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I believe that they use their own stormlight to contact Shademar, and the gem stormlight is what is offered to make something change. I have no evidence to back this up, but I think it makes sense. You will need a source of power to contact Shadesmar, and the gemstones ein Jasnah's soulcaster don't dim until the soulcasting is complete. I also think it is possible to soulcast entirely using stormlight the caster has inhaled, it just requires a lot more because you are drawing your 'bribe' from your internal source instead of a gemstone.
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I see a combination of Windrunner and Skybreaker as someone who studies law, then gets laws changed to protect the innocent. They still get to uphold the law, but now the law does what is right.
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Alas, I only have a paper copy, and that is at home (I am at work), but there are a few chapters in Words of Radiance that have proper Shardholder duels. The only chapter I recall the name of though, is The Whitespine Uncaged. That was the big duel, with 4 Shardbearers vs Adolin, Renarin, and Kaladin. All other duels appeared before that chapter. I believe there were three duels covered.
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It's possible Curiosity is also right. The Kandra still have Kelsier's bones.
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Does it make me a bad person that I can ignore that? Sirce, I know that was a rather shocking scene, but at the same time, I felt it gave the reader a better connection to the character.
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There are a few different threads about turning the Stormlight Archive into a movie, movie series, or TV series, and the consensus seems to be that it would make for a better TV series than movie.
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Another noob question... If you die, do you get to know who killed you?
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I'll add my name to the list who would go for Shallan. A redhead, with slight freckling... Adorable? As well as that, she is smart, funny, has an excellent Spren, and can create illusions. What more could you want?
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Brightlords?
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Apparently they are not very balanced. We have 11 on Scadrial, or 12 if you include Joe, but he's GM, so he is probably in all the PM threads. No idea about the others.
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I would assume the latter.
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I first played 2e, back when it was AD&D. I GM'ed 3.5e, and ran my players from level one through to about level 15. By the time they were that powerful though, they were becoming a major player in the power scheme of my world. I did have one last campaign to run the group through, which would have given them their own kingdom, had they pulled it off, but real life interfered, the group split up, and we never got finished. I tend to play my campaigns as fairly high magic. One of the players, for example, played a human mage/cleric, choosing the Goddess of Magic to follow. Very weak at low levels, but insanely powerful once he got a bit higher. Eventually, he took the advanced class Dweomerkeeper, a specialist mage in the service of Mystra, and specialised in manufacturing magical weapons/items. I also tended to include the Gods in my games. Sometimes by having the characters meet them in person, so to speak. Sometimes by having dreams or visions sent to one player or another, depending on the God in question.
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Ok, you've convinced me about Aonar's plan. On this comment though, I disagree. We shouldn't freeze the worlds. What happens if it turns out that one of the worlds is completely free of OCs? The players there will be stuck and unable to go help elsewhere.
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Yet they always found something, and that something led to power creep. The reason I went off some of the later books isn't because they were bad stories, but rather because they were badly written. For example... Spoilers This wasn't the only mistake he made. Over the course of the last half dozen books he wrote, there were numerous errors appeared, all of which could have been avoided with a proof reader, or an editor who knew the background. Also, I couldn't get over his apparent need to introduce yet another brand of elf. One that had almost nothing to do with the main plot, and was all but forgotten in the final book, Magician's End.
