Kobold King

Relevant quote from the Warbreaker annotations:

Using atium to see when another member is going to post, just so you can ninja them.

He didn't train as a Dakhor monk. Tien founded the Dakhor monks. He then Splintered Devotion and Dominion, framing Odium for the crime. Tien is the most dangerous Cosmere supervillain... and he's still at large.

That concept speaks more to me than any Shalladin ship argument ever has. Have an upvote, sul.

Well... not exactly. He did die, but Endowment was visiting Roshar and he Returned. After he Returned, that's when he went to ancient Scadrial and became a kandra. While on Scadrial, he assembled quite a collection of Hemalurgic spikes, with which he has assembled every form of Investiture into his child-like body. Eventually he will become the ultimate antagonist of the Cosmere. During the third Mistborn trilogy Hoid, Khriss, and Nazh attempt to bring him down, as foreshadowed in this Death Rattle: The "blade", obviously, is Nightblood's daughter. Man, the third Mistborn trilogy is gonna be so awesome!

RAFO.

It has been theorized that since Lightweavers are capable of altering waveforms (light and sound), they might be capable of producing the specific wavelengths necessary for a laser beam to form. As far as I know it's never been implied anywhere else, but it has become a popular theory on the forums it seems.

Welcome to the best place on the Internet! What Brandon Sanderson books have you read? (Besides Warbreaker, which is quite apparent. )

My apologies. I was unaware of her high rank. I shall no longer speak with such a lack of propriety. Often.

GASP You don't like the stick? I am offend! I am offend!

I don't get it. What's odd about that? By the way, any strange noise heard during a storm is obviously a Voidbringer.

When you find a friend has been waiting for you, so you grip his shoulder and say "I can't go back to the place between Desolations. I just can't." When you then make a gesture as if plunging a sword into the ground, and then walk away, cackling madly as you sense your friend's concerned eyes on the back of your head.

But... I always the read the first page of a novel first. I am ashamed. ( )

The kandra worldhopper will be Tien.

Awaken another toy with the Command "Be annoyed", and if commits suicide within moments of creation, then it's working.

Windrunners fly and can make their enemies fall in any direction. Skybreakers have the same ability, coupled with "Division", which sounds pretty badchull so far. Dustbringers make rock smolder. Nuff said. Edgedancers have full control over friction. They can dart across the thinnest of strings with ease, and cling to surfaces. It is easy to see how their enormous mobility could benefit them in battle, and the Surge of Regrowth allows them to heal other wounded soldiers. Truthwatchers are implied to have the ability to see the future, which, depending on how precise it is, could be useful in battle. Possessing the Surge of Illumination, they can cast illusions to disrupt their foes, and again, Regrowth is a thing of immense power on a battlefield. Lightweavers are masters of illusion, and can transform their foes (but not sticks) into the elements. Soulcasting can also be used to feed troops. Elsecallers share the Surge of Transformation, and Jasnah showed us how powerful that is. A single Elsecaller can turn an army of Voidbringers into a pile of bread. Willshapers, like their predecessors on the list, have the Surge of Transportation. This could potentially allow combat-applicable teleportation, and there's really no telling what Cohesion does. Steelheart spoilers below: Stonewards, we know little of. But their name and Surges imply the ability to summon massive fortifications (you can't have Knights without castles). Bondsmiths we know little of. Except one, apparently, bonded the Stormfather. And of course, all of them have spren that can become any form of Shard weapon. And eventually they gain access to Shardplate as well. Ultimately the Knights Radiant are one of the most powerful military organizations in any fantasy setting. Even if only half of them fight on the battlefield, it is easy to see how they have repelled Desolations so often in times past.

I love Firefly but have only watched a little bit of Castle. It's the End of the Verse as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Use Hemalurgy to steal calories from someone because you're hungry and can't find anything tasty to eat.

Kobolds were German miner spirits. Like the Cornish Knocker, they were said to tap on cavern walls to show miners where the richest ore deposits were located. They were benevolent spirits, but had a mischievous streak when people annoyed them or stole their things. Like me, I suppose. Overall I chose the name because I have a fondness for folklore, kobolds and other fairies in particular. And "Kobold King" has such wonderful alliteration.

Dustbringers already look absurdly powerful, and we haven't seen them yet. Of course... that makes one wonder why men who could melt stones with a glare were insufficient for stopping the Desolations alone. Clearly we have yet to see Odium's most powerful forces.

The True Desolation approaches. The Night of Sorrows draws near. The Everstorm looms over the land, hours away from transforming the planet's domestic animals into horrifying super-powered demon-analogues. Honestly, we don't even know what powers these particular foes will face--we've seen only stormform, when still more ominous forms such as smokeform and decayform have been hinted at. Thunderclasts will soon be scouring the land, huge slabs of stone animated by evil spren. We can presume that some unknown entity will soon resume creation of the Midnight Essences. Moelach, Yelig-Nar, and the other Unmade have returned to haunt the land. And knowing Brandon Sanderson, we know only a fraction of the forces our heroes will be going up against. Ultimately, I wouldn't consider the Windrunners, or any of the other orders of the Knights Radiant, to be overpowered. The Stormlight Archive is set on a more epic scale than any of Sanderson's other series. While Mistborn is the tale of ants biting one another with their mandibles, Stormlight is about tyrannosaurs chomping one another with massive fangs. The proportions of the conflict are far greater, and the different series cannot be reasonably compared. The word "overpowered" implies a standard for power. If Kaladin were a Mistborn character, I would agree that he was way too strong. But the standard for power is higher in Stormlight--on Roshar, Vin or Sazed would be underpowered. The character's strengths are all relative, I think.

Slim chance, but have any other sci-fi fans here discovered the Sector General series by James White? They're awesome stories about a hospital space station. A team of doctors--of which only a few are human--use their knowledge of interspecies medicine to solve medical cases. It's one of my favorite science fiction series, and the concepts the series contains are some of the most interesting I've ever seen.

Eh, my brother raves about the guy but I'm not really what you'd call a fan. I actually haven't seen Frozen, which apparently sets me apart from most other people here. I enjoyed Wreck-It Ralph though. Have some candy upvotes. I've watched the Star Wars movies, and I've read the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. Outbound Flight is my favorite Star Wars installment. I love the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though the Iron Man franchise hasn't really caught my interest. I'm looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy.

If the Divine Breath were left outside of a human, could it gain sapience? If so, then we must consider the possibility that the Returned are Nalthians who have "bonded" Divine Breaths, just as Surgebinders are Rosharans who have bonded spren.

I seem to recall someone claiming that the Returned are Splinters, like spren and Seons. Is this true, or does my memory betray me?